PRINCETON – Penn’s Chris Swanson lowered the oldest Ivy League record, while Princeton continued to march its way to the Ivy League Men’s Championships title.<\/p>\n
Princeton kicked off the night with an Ivy League and pool record in the 200-yard medley relay. \u00a0Michael Strand (21.50), Jack Pohlmann (23.67), Connor Maher (20.96) and Harrison Wagner (18.82) turned in a scorching NCAA A cut time of 1:24.95.<\/p>\n
That performance cleared the previous record set by Princeton in 2012, which stood at 1:25.89.<\/p>\n
Columbia’s David Jakl (21.92), Stanley Wong (24.63), Kevin Frifeldt (20.96) and Alex Ngan (19.61) touched second in 1:27.12.<\/p>\n
Harvard’s Jack Manchester (22.39), Shane McNamara (24.71), Steven Tan (20.70) and Griffin Schumacher (19.34) claimed third in 1:27.14.<\/p>\n
Penn’s Chris Swanson lowered a historic Ivy League record with an 8:49.55 in the 1000-yard freestyle. That performance took down the 1983 mark of 8:52.75 set by Columbia’s Tony Corbisiero 32 years ago. \u00a0That was the oldest record on the Ivy League books.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, it also crushed the meet record of 8:52.88 set set last year by Yale’s Brian Hogan and the pool record of 8:54.86 set by Princeton’s Paul Noelle.<\/p>\n
Hogan, meanwhile, claimed second overall in 8:54.32, while Penn’s Taylor Uselis picked up third-place with a time if 9:02.89.<\/p>\n
Another Ivy League record fell as Princeton’s Corey Okubo charged his way to victory in 3:43.95. \u00a0That performance beat the previous Ivy League standard of 3:4.39 set by Dartmouth’s Nejc Zupan in 2013. \u00a0It also lowered the meet record of 3:45.85 set by Princeton’s Samuel Smiddy this morning.<\/p>\n
Smiddy took second tonight in 3:45.62, while Harvard’s Christian Carbone finished third overall in 3:46.76.<\/p>\n
Columbia’s David Jakl raced his way to the men’s 100-yard fly title in 46.05, while Harvard’s Max Yakubovich touched second overall in 46.88. \u00a0Princeton’s Zach Buerger also cleared the 47-second mark with a third-place 46.99.<\/p>\n
Penn’s Eric Schultz tracked down the men’s 200-yard free win in 1:34.80. \u00a0Princeton’s Teo D’Alessandro took second with a time of 1:35.63, while Yale’s Rob Harder rounded out the top three in 1:36.05.<\/p>\n
Cornell’s Alex Evdokimov picked up the men’s 100-yard breaststroke win with a time of 53.12. \u00a0Princeton went 2-3 with Byron Sanborn (53.41) and Jack Pohlmann (53.47) taking second and third.<\/p>\n
Columbia’s David Jakl doubled up with a 45.98 in the men’s 100-yard back. That swim beat Alex Righi’s Ivy League record of 46.32 from 2009. Princeton’s Michael Strand took second in 46.47 with Cornell’s Dylan Sali earning third in 46.82.<\/p>\n