Dean Farris Downs Two School Records At Annual HYP Double Dual

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

The annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton double dual meet was held at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool this weekend, with the Ivy League women competing Friday-Saturday and the men competing Saturday-Sunday. While just a few short weeks away from the Ivy League Championships, this meet is known to feature some of the fastest times of the year for the three long-time rival schools, and this year was no exception.

Men’s Results
Women’s Results

Dean Farris was a standout from the men’s meet, throwing down some of the fastest times in the country while establishing two new program records for the Crimson.

Farris started off his meet Saturday with a blistering 18.35 anchor leg on the 200 free relay before coming back shortly after to record a new personal best of 44.62 in the 100 back. That broke his own school record and established a new Blodgett pool record, while also moving the junior up to #2 in the country. He closed the session with a lightning fast 40.85 anchor leg on the 400 medley relay.

Farris’ second record came in the 100 free on Sunday, where he posted a 41.92 to again break the school and pool records and dip under 42 seconds for the first time in his career. That time moves him up to #4 overall in Division I for this season. Farris closed the meet with a 41.91 relay leg on the Crimson’s 400 free relay.

Freshman teammate Umitcan Gures also joined Farris in the record books, setting a new Harvard mark in the 100 fly (45.73) to win the event by 2 seconds. That moves him up to #7 in the country and makes him the fastest freshman this year across Division I. Gures also won the 50 free in 19.75.

Powered by those performances and strong double wins from Logan Houck (500/1650) and Daniel Chang (100/200 breast), Harvard topped Princeton (216-137) and Yale (266-87), while Princeton recorded a win against the Bulldogs (237-116).

On the women’s side, Yale was the far and away winner in the double dual meet, taking down Harvard (182.50-117.50) and Princeton (186-114) by nearly equal margins, while Harvard edged out Princeton (182-118) for the win.

Yale’s Bella Hindley was the only woman to win three individual events during the meet, winning the 50 (22.75) and 100 (49.94) frees in addition to the 100 back (54.91). While the Princeton women didn’t get any individual wins, they were able to open and close the meet with win in the 200 medley (1:41.67) and 400 free (3:20.75) relays.

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