Meet of the Week Recap: Princeton Women Dominate H-Y-P Meet With Wins Over Harvard, Yale

PRINCETON, New Jersey, February 3. DURING the final session of the women's portion of the H-Y-P meet between Harvard, Yale and Princeton at the DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J., Princeton's women wound up dominating the SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Meet of the Week. Princeton claimed wins over Harvard (174-145) and Yale (192-127), while Harvard captured a win over Yale, 172-147. On the second of two days of competition, Princeton won four titles to end with nine crowns, while Harvard took three for five overall. Yale swept the relays with a 400 free relay win today en route to three titles.

Alicia Aemisegger paced the meet with three titles, one of which came today with a B-cut time in the 200 breast. She also finished first with an exhibition B-cut time in the 200 IM. Yesterday, she broke a 16-year-old pool standard in the 1000 free.

100 freestyle
Princeton's Justina DiFazio nipped the B-cut threshold for her second title of the meet in 50.93, while teammate Kristen Arey placed third in 51.69. Yale's Jane Kim split the difference with a second-place time of 51.39, while Harvard's Alexis Mann gave her team its best finish with a seventh-place 52.83.

200 backstroke
Harvard got on the board with its first win of the day as Lindsay Hart went sub-2 minutes with a B-cut time of 1:59.59 for the win. Yale took the next two spots as Moira McCloskey (2:01.6) and Brenna Davis (2:02.84) finished second and third, respectively. Rebecca Nyquist gave Princeton its best effort with a fifth-place 2:05.83.

200 breaststroke
Princeton's Alicia Aemisegger continued her one-woman show with a B-cut time of 2:14.89 to win her fourth title of the meet. That effort came up just short of the pool record of 2:14.64 set by Cristina Teuscher of Columbia in 1999.

Meanwhile, Yale's Susan Kim also cleared the B-cut standard with a second-place time of 2:16.17, while Harvard's Jaclyn Pangilinan rounded out the podium in 2:18.12.

500 freestyle
Harvard owned the middle distance event with a 1-2 finish. Alexandra Clarke eclipsed the B-cut standard with a first-place time of 4:51.15, while teammate Laurin Weisenthal picked up second place with a time of 4:55.40. Princeton's Aurora Lee closed out the top three in 4:56.10, while Yale's Laura Strittmatter finished fifth with a time of 4:58.70 for her team's best effort.

100 butterfly
Harvard made it two in a row when Bridget O'Connor touched first in 55.89, while Yale's Meg Gill placed second in 56.09. Princeton's Justina DiFazio completed the top three with a time of 56.68.

Three-meter diving
In the diving break, Princeton's Katie Giarra overwhelmed the field with a first-place tally of 327.05, while Harvard's Samantha Papadakis, the winner of the one-meter, finished runner-up with 298.50 points. Princeton's Peggy Kearns earned third with 297.55 points, while Yale's Marisa Poverman gave her team its highest finish with a seventh-place tally of 251.80 points.

200 IM
Princeton's Lisa Hamming garnered her second title of the meet with a time of 2:04.25 to finish ahead of teammate Kelly Hannigan's second-place effort of 2:04.90. Harvard's Lindsay Hart placed third in 2:05.43, while Yale's Brenna Davis finished fourth in 2:06.31. In exhibition action, Alicia Aemisegger posted a B-cut time of 2:02.29 for the quickest performance of the event.

400 freestyle relay
Yale completed the day with its first title of the second session with a time of 3:24.92 from Moira McCloskey, Meg Gill, Alexis Mann and Jane Kim came up just .01 seconds shy of the B-cut standard to win the race. Harvard's team of Bridget O'Connor, Alexandra Clarke, Jaclyn Pangilinan and Amanda Slaight took second in 3:28.65. Princeton's foursome of Kristen Arey, Suzanne Rossi, Sobe George and Lisa Hamming took third in 3:29.18.

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