Ivy League – Men
- Wednesday, February 27 – Saturday, March 2
- Katherine Moran Aquatics Center, Brown University, Rhode Island (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Harvard (2x)
- Live results
- Live Video: Thursday – Prelims | Finals; Friday – Prelims | Finals; Saturday – Prelims | Finals (Friday and Saturday links coming soon)
- Championship Central
TEAM SCORES
1. Harvard Men's Swimming 525.5 2. University of Pennsylvania 384 3. Princeton University 372 4. Yale University 342.5 5. Columbia University 342 6. Brown University 291.5 7. Cornell University 234 8. Dartmouth College Swimming 187.5
The 2nd day of the Ivy League Championship led to Harvard expanding to a significant lead over the rest of the teams. Harvard won 3 of the 5 events today, inlcuding the 200 free relay.
Harvard senior Brennan Novak was dominant force in the 500, winning the event in 4:15.96 tonight. The real story in the 500 coming out of today, though, is Novak’s prelims swim, where he blasted a season best 4:13.44. The time all but guarantees Novak an invitation to the NCAAs at the end of March. He was, however, just a hair off his own Ivy record of 4:13.34, from last year.
Harvard also took the 50 free, where Raphael Marcoux swam a 19.38, taking the event by over 1-tenth of a second. The final Harvard victory of the night came in the 200 free relay, where they swam a 1:17.73. Dean Farris played a heroic role on the relay, anchoring in 18.45 to run down and beat out Brown’s Alexander Smilenov. Marcoux led off in 19.58, while Umit Gures and Grant Goddard split 20.01 and 19.69 respectively.
The 200 IM saw a new Ivy league meet record and Brown pool record. Princeton freshman Raunak Khosla swam a 1:42.80, out-touching Penn senior Mark Andrew (1:42.97). Both swimmers were under the previous meet record of 1:43.24, and pool record of 1:43.80, both of which were held by Andrew. Columbia sophomore Jonathan Suckow won the 1 meter diving, posting a score of 377.10.
Kholsa’s time ranks him among the top 10 freshman over at least the last decade in the event. That group of siwmmers faster than Kholsa, led by Hugo Oliveira’s 1:40.67 last season, includes names like Ryan Murphy, Joseph Schooling, Josh Prenot, David Nolan, Cameron Craig, and Andrew Seliskar. It’s the 2nd-fastest swim by a freshman this season in the 200 IM, behind Texas’ Matthew Willenbring, and should earn him a spot at NCAAs.
🐐 raunak
Is there a list for top times, by event, by class? Just wondering where a 1:42 falls all time for freshman swimmers in the 2 IM.
The best that exists is the USA Swimming times database, where you can go back to the 2007-2008 season and do some searching to find best by class. In some races, 2007-2008 is enough. In others, you have to piece-meal together prior swimmers from other sources.
https://www.usaswimming.org/utility/landing-pages/times/ncaa-division-i
Hugo Gonzalez is the best by a freshman at 1:40.67. Raunak’s time puts him about 10th (didn’t count it all out) and 2nd this season.
raunak is love, raunak is life
Raunak Khosla’s beard is unmatched! Looks like he had a little bit of a Stache left too so expect more time droppage come NCAA’s.
Big swim for Princeton. that kids big tall hard working and really cares to be great at anything he puts his time to. Excited to watch him develop in the years to come. Alpharetta>Cham
Iffin he wanted to be great he woulda gone to an SEC School ta swim…FACT!
Fun fact: Raunak’s swim would have won SECs in the 200 IM. Mark Andrew would have been 2nd in the IM. And, Dean would win any event he swam at SECs. Fast swimming is fast swimming!
Best of both worlds. Fast swimming and Ivy League education.
If he wanted a starting salary twice as high as a SEC school, he would go to an Ivy! And still swim fast!
BEIN GREAT AINT ABOUT SWIMMING FAST OR MAKIN BUNCH O MONEY. IT IS ABOUT WARM NIGHTS BY THE LAKE SWEET TASTING GRITS IN THE MORNING AND BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN SUNSETS
Thought that was ‘girls’ instead of ‘grits’ lol. Still would make sense 😉
Not sure what’s with the downvotes… you’re completely right. More training and better coaches in top D1 conferences.
Raunak Khosla > Dean Farris
Blasphemy. Swimswam please excommunicate this heathen from the comments section
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Dean is always out here taking things to levels which, before he became the legend, had never existed.