2024 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Wednesday, February 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024
• Blodgett Pool, Cambridge, MA
• Defending Champions:
  • Men: Harvard (6x)
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THURSDAY MORNING HEAT SHEETS

Harvard got off to a strong start on Day 1, winning both relays with Blodgett Pool records. We begin our individual events on Day 2 with heats of 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, and 1-meter diving. Princeton’s John Ehling is top seed in the 500 free (4:18.39) but Columbia’s Adam Wu is the highest-placing returning finalist from last year. Mitchell Schott of Princeton, who competed in the A final with Ehling and Wu last year, is seeded 1st in the 200 IM (1:43.48). He’ll be battling Harvard’s Gunner Grant and Brown’s Jack Kelly, seeded 2 and 3. Yale first-year Deny Nankov (19.71) leads the entrants in the 50 free, followed by Marcus Holmquist of Harvard and Brown first-year Jonathan Gim.

DAY 2

Men’s 500 Yard Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 4:10.62, Noah Millard, Yale (2023)
• Pool Record: 4:16.56, Brennan Novak, Harvard (2018)
• NCAA A: 4:10.74
• NCAA B: 4:21.99
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 4:14.36

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Ben Littlejohn, Harvard – 4:16.78
2. Matt Fallon, Penn – 4:17.31
3. John Ehling, Princeton – 4:18.63
4. Andrew Berzolla, Brown – 4:20.17
5. Cole Kuster, Harvard – 4:20.46
6. James Curreri, Penn – 4:21.41
7. Shane Washart, Harvard – 4:21.65
8. Simon Lamar, Harvard – 4:23.06

Harvard junior Ben Littlejohn, who was an A finalist last year but entered the meet with no time this season, cracked a lifetime-best 4:16.78 from heat 1 to qualify first overall in the men’s 500 free. Penn’s Matt Fallon, known best as a breaststroker (his brother Billy Fallon was a distance freestyler at Penn), put up the second-fastest time in Quaker history with his 4:17.31 winning performance in heat 2. Fallon was entered with 4:33.33.

Harvard senior Cole Kuster dominated heat 3 with 4:20.46, while Brown’s Andrew Berzolla beat Penn sophomore James Curreri, 4:20.17 to 4:21.41) in heat 4.

Princeton senior John Ehling cruised to a 4:18.63 win in heat 5, while Harvard teammates Simon Lamar (4:23.06) and Filip Lanyi (4:23.22) battled it out for 2nd.

Men’s 200 Yard Individual Medley – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 1:41.11, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2023)
• Pool Record: 1:43.01, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2020)
• NCAA A: 1:41.03
• NCAA B: 1:46.16
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:43.14

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Gunner Grant, Harvard – 1:43.40
2. Max Kreidl, Princeton – 1:43.76
3. Tyler Hong, Princeton – 1:44.14
4. Mitchell Schott, Princeton – 1:44.35
5. Jack Kelly, Brown – 1:44.70
6. Sebastian Wolff, Cornell – 1:45.22
7. Harrison Powe, Brown – 1:46.29
8. Noah Sech, Princeton – 1:46.34

Columbia junior Caleb Apodaca won heat 2 with a massive 1:48.03, improving his seed time by 3.6 seconds and leapfrogging from 28th seed straight into the B final. Brown’s Jack Kelly, last year’s bronze medalist, took care of business in the first circle-seeded heat with 1:44.70, beating Princeton first-year Noah Sech (1:46.34) by 1.6 seconds.

Harvard’s Gunner Grant clocked in at 1:43.40 to win heat 4, just touching out Princeton’s Max Kreidl (1:43.76) who came back from a 1.5-second deficit at the 150 wall to nearly catch Grant at the touch.

Princeton went 1-2 in the final heat, with junior Tyler Hong just edging sophomore Mitchell Schott, 1:44.14 to 1:44.35.

Men’s 50 Yard Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 18.90, Alex Righi, Yale (2009)
• Pool Record: 19.32, Albert Gwo, Columbia (2020)
• NCAA A: 18.82
• NCAA B: 19.79
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 19.21

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Ben Meulemans, Yale – 19.60
2. Zion James, Columbia – 19.82
3. Marcus Holmquist – Harvard – 19.83
4. Deny Nankov, Yale – 19.84
5. David Greeley, Harvard – 19.87
6. Lucius Brown, Yale – 19.91
7. Sonny Wang, Harvard – 19.94
8. Benjamin Feldman, Penn – 19.99

The 50 free was somewhat chaotic, given that the Blodgett Pool timing system malfunctioned in lane 5. None of the lane 5 swimmers in the circle-seeded heats registered times and their swims had to be manually adjusted at the conclusion of the event. These included Harvard first-year Sonny Wang in heat 4, Harvard senior Marcus Hodgson in heat 5, and Princeton junior Brett Feyerick in heat 6. Wang was assigned a 19.94 to make the A final; Feyerick got 20.00 and Hodgson, 20.14, earning B- and C-final spots, respectively.

After the results were shifted around, there was now a 3-way tie for 15th place among Brown freshman Jonathan Gim, his teammate, junior Marcus Lee, and Columbia sophomore Sam Eckert, who all registered 20.13.

Men’s 1-meter Diving – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 437.00, Jonathan Suckow, Columbia (2023)
• Pool Record: 405.75, Terry Horner, Florida State (2007)
• NCAA Zones: 300.00

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Adam Wesson, Harvard – 338.55
2. Rowland Lawver, Brown – 321.55
3. Aidan Wang, Princeton – 317.85
4. Luca Fassi, Princeton – 317.35
5. Anastasios Callanan, Princeton – 303.80
6. Luke Foster, Harvard – 303.20
7. Joseph Nicol, Columbia – 302.95
8. Denny Gulia Janovski, Harvard – 294.75