Princeton Wins Second Straight Ivy League Men’s Championship
Princeton capped off a second straight and 33rd overall Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday night.
The Tigers won in home water at DeNunzio Pool. The Tigers won nine events overall, including four on the final day, to tally 1,474 points, 200 up on Yale. Harvard, the 2024 champion, finished third.
Princeton won three of five relays, with Yale capturing the other two. Mitchell Schott was named the High Point Scorer among swimmers for the second straight season, while Aidan Wang repeated in that honor for divers.
To cap the meet on Saturday, Schott picked up his third win of the meet, going 1:39.05 to capture the 200 fly. Teammate Arthur Balva was third, with Princeton putting five swimmers into the A final.
Ivy League Men’s Swimming Team Scores
- Princeton 1474
- Yale 1274.5
- Harvard 1173.5
- Columbia 901.5
- Cornell 841
- Brown 805
- Dartmouth 694
- Penn 677.5
In the process, Schott helped the event take a quantum leap. The Ivy League meet record was set in 2025 by Harvard’s David Schmitt in prelims at 1:40.87. Schott went 1:40.42 in finals to best Schmitt by a tenth of a second last year. Saturday, Schott went more than a second faster to advance his Ivy League record. Schmitt was second in 1:41.06 for the Crimson.
Schott won the 200 individual medley for the second straight year on Thursday, going 1:40.93. He erased Raunak Kholsa’s conference record from 2023. Schott repeated as the 200 free champ, dominating the field by 2.3 seconds in 1:31.52.
Second in the 200 free was Patrick Dinu, who repeated as champion in Saturday’s 100 free in 41.36, which clips .06 seconds off Dean Farris’ meet record from 2019. (Farris’ 40.80 remains the conference mark). Dinu was also the runner-up in the 50 free.
Princeton claimed all three freestyle relays. The 800 free of Balva, Scott, Parker Lenoce and Dinu went 6:09.80, obliterating Harvard’s 2019 record from NCAAs at 6:11.73. The 200 free relay of Logan Noguchi, Dinu, Jake Tarara and Yanning Zhang went 1:16.03 to down the meet record. The 400 free squad (Schott, Noguchi, Tarara, Dinu) went 2:48.36 to close out the meet, just .12 off the 2022 Ivy League mark set by Harvard.
Noguchi was third in the 100 fly, as was Balva in the 500.
Princeton dominated in diving as well. Wang won 3-meter diving for as third straight year with a score of 391.15. Teammate Luke Martinovic was second, with five Tigers in the top six. Fourth was Chase Sorosky, who won 1-meter with a score of 402.30. Wang was third, Martinovic fourth on the shorter board.
Nick Finch and Noah Millard led Yale’s runner-up efforts. Finch won the 50 free in 18.82, which ties the long-standing Ivy League record set in 2009 by Alex Righi. Finch won the 100 fly in 44.34, a second ahead of Schmitt, in improving his meet record from last year in repeating as the champion. Finch was second in the 100 free.
Noah Millard won the 500 free in 4:10.19, shy of his record time from last year but good enough for the three-peat. Millard was second in the 1,000 free and the 1,650 free.
Yale captured both medley relays. Lucius Brown, Alexander Hazlett, Finch and Deniel Nankov won by eight tenths in 1:23.55, trimming .24 seconds off the meet record. The 400 medley relay (Jake Wang, Charlie Egeland, Finch, Nankov) went 3:04.65, eight tenths under the meet mark. Both meet records date to Harvard in 2023.
Jake Wang was third in the 200 IM, third in the 100 breast (a spot behind Egeland) and fourth in the 100 free (with Nankov third).
Harvard’s William Mulgrew finished second in the 500 free, then rallied to win the two longest races. He went 8:38.01 in the 1,000 free and 14:26.79 in the 1,650 free. His time in the 1,000 routed the league mark of Harvard’s Brennan Novak by 8.98 seconds. In the mile, he trimmed a second and a half off Millard’s time from last year.
Harvard’s Adriano Arioti won the 200 back in 1:39.60. He was third in the 100 back and fourth in the 200 IM. Sonny Wang was third in the 50 free, as was Pablo Martinez Palop in the 1,000 and 1,650 and David Greeley in the 200 free.
Brown sophomore Marton Nagy successfully defended his 400 IM title, winning in 3:41.89. He went 3:42.64 last year. Nagy was second in the 200 IM. Dartmouth’s Jacob Turner was third.
Cornell got a win in the 100 back via Blake Conway, who wen 45.77. He edged Columbia’s Isaac Beers by .12 seconds. Last year’s champion, Pietro Ubertalli of Cornell, was fourth. Ubertalli was third in the 200 back, with Beers second.
Despite finishing last among the eight teams, Penn picked up two wins, both in breaststroke. Watson Nguyen won the 100 in 51.18 seconds, exactly a second clear of the field. The 200 breast brought a 1-2 in a race between Quakers, Nguyen going 1:52.03 to edge teammate Peter Whtitington by .07 seconds. Joshua Corn of Columbia was a close third in 1:52.34. Whittington was second in the 400 IM.
