CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- (Results) Harvard captured its third Ivy League women’s swimming & diving title over the past five seasons and its 13th all-time.
 
After Yale snapped a streak of 17-straight Ivy League women’s swimming & diving championships for either Harvard or Princeton a year ago, the Frank Keefe Trophy will return home to Cambridge.
 
The Crimson tallied 1,616 points to defeat Yale (1,490.5) by a 125.5-point margin, the first 100-point margin of victory since 2013. Princeton also eclipsed the 1,000-point threshold with 1,301 in the first Ivy meet under head coach Bret Lundgaard. Penn (921.5), Columbia (720), Brown (712), Cornell (606) and Dartmouth (475) rounded out the eight-team field.
 
Yale won 10-of-21 event titles, with Harvard claiming six, Princeton taking three and Penn earning the final two.
 
Harvard sophomore Miki Dahlke was the High Point Swimmer of the Meet after claiming individual crowns in the 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle. Yale’s Cailley Silbert earned Career High Point Swimmer with 357 points.

Freshman Nikki Watters of Yale was the Rick Gilbert High Point Diver of the Meet with 64 points, while senior Jing Leung of Harvard was the Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver with 201 for her career.
 
Yale’s Cailley Silbert won the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:20.01, ahead of teammate Kendall Brent (16:22.12) and Harvard’s Michelle Owens (16:36.80). Silbert became the 10th four-time Ivy League champion—and the first to do so in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
 
Freshman Quinn Scannell (1:54.64) of Penn held off a pair of former Ivy League champions—Lindsay Temple of Princeton (1:54.95) and Heidi Vanderwel of Yale (1:56.11)—in championship meet and Blodgett Pool record time to win the 200-yard backstroke.
 
After finishing as the runner-up a year ago, Harvard’s Miki Dahlke matched Bella Hindley’s championship meet record time from 2017—48.64—to out-touch two-time defending champion Hindley (49.05) for this year’s crown in the 100-yard freestyle. Dahlke’s time was also a Blodgett Pool record. Princeton’s Madelyn Veith finished third in the event with a time of 49.16.

Yale’s Cha O’Leary continues to hold the title of queen of the breaststroke after claiming the 200-yard title in 2:11.26. She has won both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststrokes at each of the past two Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. Dartmouth’s Mackenzie Stumpf (2:12.61) and Harvard’s Jaycee Yegher (2:13.05)—both freshmen—followed O’Leary in the 200-yard final.
 
Princeton earned a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard butterfly, with junior Joanna Curry (1:57.95) outpacing sophomore Elaine Zhou (1:58.47) and Yale senior Maddy Zimmerman (1:58.99).

In the meet's final individual event, Yale freshman Nikki Watters completed the diving sweep with 358.15 points—ahead of fellow Bulldog McKenna Tennant (319.60) and Harvard’s Alisha Mah (306.65).

In the 21st and final event of the meet, Princeton claimed its first relay title since 2015 with a 3:18.33 finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The Tigers out-touched Harvard (3:18.39), Yale (3:18.80) and Brown (3:19.09) by under a second.