The Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (9-0, 6-0 Ivy) captured its second Ivy League Dual Meet Championship with a sweep of Yale (7-2, 5-2 Ivy) and Princeton (7-4, 5-2 Ivy) at the annual H-Y-P meet.<\/p>\n
Harvard beat Yale 242-111 and Princeton 250-103, and Yale hung on to beat Princeton 177-176, the first time they have won in 16 years.<\/p>\n
Junior Brennan Novak<\/strong> highlighted day two, breaking the Blodgett Pool record in the 500 freestyle. Novak, who earlier this year took down Harvard’s school record in the event, touched the wall with a time of 4:16.56 \u2013 .15 seconds better than the previous mark set by Yale’s Kei Hyogo<\/strong> in last year’s Ivy League Championship.<\/p>\n Sophomore Dean Farris<\/strong> took home three first place finishes. After collecting the top-spot in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke on the first day, the Atlanta native finished first in the 100 freestyle on day two with a time of 42.93.<\/p>\n On the first day of the meet, junior Logan Houck<\/strong> came close to eclipsing the Blodgett Pool record in the mile as he out-swam the rest of the pack. Well ahead of the next closest swimmer, Houck touched the wall with a time of 14:47.39 \u2013 the current Blodgett mark is 14:47.01.<\/p>\n Senior Steven Tan<\/strong> picked up two first place finishes. In the 50 freestyle on day one, Tan edged out Yale’s Aaron Greenberg<\/strong> by one-hundredth of a second for first place, touching the wall with a time of 19.86. On the second day, he finished first in the 100 butterfly with a time of 47.41.<\/p>\n On the boards, senior David Pfeifer<\/strong> claimed a first-place finish in the 3-meter dive, posting a score of 359.55.<\/p>\n Yale diver Christian DeVol<\/strong> captured Yale’s first event win of the day, finishing first in the 1-meter event with 316.05 points. Jonathan Rutter<\/strong> took first in the 200-yard breaststroke with at time of 1:57.99.<\/p>\n Princeton\u2019s Cole Buese<\/strong> won the 200 fly by pushing past Harvard freshman Michael Zarian over the final 25 to win in 1:44.8, the fastest time in the Ivy League this season.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s meet, Yale was shortly behind after completion of the first day, 84-66 against Princeton and 79-71 against Harvard. Both swimmers and divers made a strong comeback the second day to finish the overall competition with scores of 161-139 against Princeton and 162-138 against Harvard.<\/p>\n Sprinter Bella Hindley<\/strong> flew ahead of the competition, winning the race and breaking the Blodgett Pool record – last broken in 2012 – in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.43. To wrap up the first day, Destiny Nelson<\/strong> won the 400-yard individual medley with a breath-taking time of 4:13.89, finishing more than five seconds ahead of Princeton’s swimmer who finished second.<\/p>\n Hindley won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 48.7. Nelson and Heidi Vanderwel<\/strong> tag-teamed the 200-yard backstroke, finishing first (1:55.93) and second (1:57.06). Butterflier Maddy Zimmerman<\/strong> won the 100-yard butterfly in 53.15. Nelson competed once more in the individual medley – the 200-yard individual medley this time – with her teammate Sophie Pilkinton<\/strong>, out-racing the the entire competition and placing first (1:59.64) and second (2:03.09), respectively.<\/p>\n For the Harvard women, freshman Jaycee Yegher<\/strong> edged Yale’s Cha O’Leary<\/strong> by eight-hundredths of a second, finishing with a time of 2:11.72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (9-0, 6-0 Ivy) captured its second Ivy League Dual Meet Championship with a sweep of Yale (7-2, 5-2 Ivy) and Princeton (7-4, 5-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":248571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,49262],"tags":[66111,55790,33785,66110,29806,24923,29127,48811,25392,31936,33134,61588,58218,37898,41567,59849,29078,32351,61968],"class_list":["post-294499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","category-meet-recaps","tag-austin-fields","tag-bella-hindley","tag-bobby-ross","tag-brennen-novak","tag-christian-devol","tag-cole-buese","tag-david-pfeifer","tag-dean-farris","tag-destiny-nelson","tag-harvard-swimming","tag-heidi-vanderwel","tag-ivy-league-swimming","tag-jaycee-yegher","tag-logan-houck","tag-maddy-zimmerman","tag-princeton-swimming","tag-sophie-pilkinton","tag-steven-tan","tag-yale-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n