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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SATURDAY MORNING HEAT SHEETS

DAY 4

Men’s 200 Yard Backstroke – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 1:38.99, Dean Farris, Harvard (2018)
• Pool Record: 1:40.52, Jack Manchester, Harvard (2017)
• NCAA A: 1:39.13
• NCAA B: 1:44.60
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.62

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Gunner Grant, Harvard – 1:40.79
2. Anthony Rincon, Harvard – 1:41.09
3. Pietro Ubertalli, Cornell – 1:43.04
4. James Curreri, Penn – 1:43.67
5. Parker Lenoce, Princeton – 1:43.73
6. Isaac Beers, Columbia – 1:43.84
7. Daniel Gallagher, Penn – 1:44.77
8. Blake Conway, Cornell – 1:44.87

Columbia sophomore Isaac Beers opened heats of the 200 back with 1:43.84 to beat Penn’s Daniel Gallagher (1:44.77) and Columbia junior Tristan Pragnell (1:45.75).

Harvard junior Anthony Rincon, the 2023 runner-up in this event and the second-place finisher in the 100 back last night, won heat 2 with 1:41.09. Penn sophomore James Curreri edged Princeton first-year Parker Lenoce, 1:43.67 to 1:43.73, for second place in the heat.

Double defending champion Gunner Grant of Harvard took the final heat in 1:40.79, just missing the pool record. He was a half-second faster than his winning time last year. Cornell went 2-3 in the heat with sophomore Pietro Ubertalli (1:43.04) and first-year Blake Conway (1:44.87).

Men’s 100 Yard Freestyle – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 41.42, Dean Farris, Harvard (2019)
• Pool Record: 41.92, Dean Farris, Harvard (2019)
• NCAA A: 41.50
• NCAA B: 43.46
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 42.32

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Deny Nankov, Yale – 43.13
2. Zion James, Columbia – 43.28
3. David Greeley, Harvard – 43.32
4. Marcus Holmquist, Harvard – 43.45
5. Sonny Wang, Harvard – 43.46
6. Ben Meulemans, Yale – 43.61
7. (tie) Marcus Lee, Brown / Mitchell Schott, Princeton – 43.64
8. –

Columbia sophomore Zion James opened the circle-seeded heats with an narrow win over Harvard sophomore David Greeley, getting the touch by .04 with 43.28. Yale junior Ben Meulemans (43.61) and Cornell junior Jack Banks (44.07) followed in 3rd and 4th.

Princeton sophomore Mitchell Schott and Brown junior Marcus Lee tied with 43.64 in the next heat. They were followed by Yale sophomore Lucius Brown (43.85) and Princeton’s Brett Feyerick (43.88) and Lucas Tudoras (43.93).

Yale first-year Deny Nankov took care of business in the final heat, clocking in at 43.13 to beat Harvard’s Marcus Holmquist (43.45) and Sonny Wang (43.46) and Penn senior Benjamin Feldman (43.79).

Men’s 200 Yard Breaststroke – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 1:51.44, Matthew Fallon, Penn (2022)
• Pool Record: 1:53.72, Alex Evdokimov, Cornell (2017)
• NCAA A: 1:51.09
• NCAA B: 1:57.44
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:52.94

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Matt Fallon, Penn – 1:50.27
2. Jack Kelly, Brown – 1:51.71
3. Charlie Egeland, Yale – 1:55.81
4. Jason Schreiber, Penn – 1:56.42
5. Demirkan Demir, Columbia – 1:56.46
6. Sebastian Wolff, Cornell – 1:57.07
7. Joshua Corn, Columbia – 1:57.38
8. Peter Whittington, Penn – 1:57.59

Columbia junior and defending champion Demirkan Demir won the first of three circle-seeded heats with 1:56.46, coming to the wall half a body length ahead of his teammate, first-year Joshua Corn (1:57.38), and Penn senior Matthew Leblanc (1:58.27), who had led by nearly a second at the 100. Leblanc and Demir turned in unison at the 150 wall but Demir outsplit him by 1.9 seconds on the final 50.

Yale first-year Charlie Egeland went 1:55.81 to win the next heat. He was followed by Penn senior Jason Schreiber (1:56.42) and Cornell junior Sebastian Wolff (1:57.07). Wolff improved his seed time by 1.8 seconds and made the A final.

Brown junior Jack Kelly, who won the 100 breast title on Friday night, led for the first 50 yards in the final heat, but Penn junior Matt Fallon turned first at the 100, edging Kelly 53.03 to 53.24. Fallon then ignited the jets and came home in 28.1/29.1 to clock a 1:50.27 for the win. It was the first “A” cut of the meet and it set a new Ivy Meet record. Both he and Kelly (1:51.71) were well under the Blodgett Pool record. Penn first-year Peter Whittington (1:57.99) was third in the heat, and gave the Quakers their third A finalist for tonight.

Men’s 200 Yard Butterfly – Prelims

• Ivy Meet: 1:41.50, Raunak Khosla, Princeton (2022)
• Pool Record: 1:42.35, Tommy Glenn, Brown (2014)
• NCAA A: 1:40.16
• NCAA B: 1:45.89
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 1:42.57

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Ben Littlejohn Harvard – 1:42.57
2. David Schmitt, Harvard – 1:43.08
3. Max Kreidl, Princeton – 1:44.12
4. Conor McKenna, Princeton – 1:44.31
5. Joseph Gurski, Cornell – 1:44.56
6. Jacques Grove, Cornell – 1:45.06
7. Arthur Balva, Princeton – 1:45.11
8. Nicholas Lim, Princeton – 1:45.15

Harvard junior Ben Littlejohn cracked a lifetime-best 1:42.57 from heat 1 to win by nearly half a pool length. It was his first 200 fly this season so he was entered with “no time” but Littlejohn placed 4th in the A final of this event last year.

Princeton senior Max Kreidl and last night’s 100 fly champion, Joseph Gurski, traded stroke for stroke in heat 2, but Kreidl got his hand to the wall .4 ahead of the Cornell junior, winning the heat, 1:44.12 to 1:44.56. Princeton senior Nicholas Lim touched third in 1:45.15.

Princeton sophomore Conor McKenna and first-year Arthur Balva led the field throughout heat 3. McKenna had an advantage of .08 at the 100 wall with 50.10; he then came home in 54.2 for a 1:44.31 heat win. Cornell sophomore Jacques Grove challenged Balva over the second half, slightly outpacing him on the third 50 and catching him on the fourth. Grove stopped the clock at 1:45.06 to touch out Balva by .05 for second place in the heat.

Harvard first-year and top seed David Schmitt got out to a quick start, establishing an early lead with 22.9 at the 50 and 44.9 at the 100. Teammate Aayush Deshpande went with him from lane 7, swimming even with Princeton junior Tyler Hong in lane 5. Schmitt extended his lead on the field with a second-half 26.8/27.4 to notch a final time of 1:43.08. Hong placed second with 1:45.57, just holding off Yale sophomore Alex Hazlett (1:45.59), who was .8 faster over the final 50 yards.

Men’s 1650 Yard Freestyle – Slower Heats

• Ivy Meet: 14:40.18, Chris Swanson, Penn (2016)
• Pool Record: 14:47.10, Kei Hyogo, Yale (2017)
• NCAA A: 14:37.31
• NCAA B: 15:25.12
• 2023 NCAA Invite Time: 14:53.84

Top 8:

1. Simon Lamar, Harvard – 15:05.35
2. Andrew Berzolla, Brown – 15:08.51
3. Konstantinos Zachariadis, Yale – 15:21.48
4. Adam Zapatka, Yale – 15:23.22
5. Jose Cano Figueroa, Yale – 15:25.96
6. Filip Lanyi, Harvard – 15:26.36
7. Julian Correa, Cornell – 15:27.01
8. Robert Melsom, Penn – 15:29.84