PRINCETON, N.J. -- (
Final Results) Harvard will bring the Frank Keefe Trophy back home to Cambridge. The Crimson captured its fourth Ivy League women’s swimming & diving title over the past six seasons and its 14th all-time.
Harvard tallied 1,500 points to defeat Yale (1390.5) by a 109.5-point margin. Princeton also eclipsed the 1,000-point threshold with 1,177. Brown (937.5), Penn (865.5), Dartmouth (709), Columbia (701.5) and Cornell (506) rounded out the eight-team field.
Harvard won 7-of-21 event titles, with Yale claiming six in a runner-up effort. Princeton earned three individual championships, while Dartmouth (2), Penn (2) and Columbia (1) also posted individual victories at the meet.
Harvard freshman
Samantha Shelton and Yale senior
Bella Hindley shared High Point Swimmer of the Meet honors with the maximum 96 points. Shelton earned individual crowns in the 200-yard individual medley, 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke, while Hindley was the champion in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard freestyle. Hindley also earned Career High Point Swimmer with 371 points.
Junior
Mimi Lin of Princeton was the Rick Gilbert High Point Diver of the Meet with 55 points, while senior
Mikaela Thompson of Harvard was the Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver with 204 for her career.
Penn’s
Catherine Buroker won the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:11.06, ahead of Harvard’s
Marcella Ruppert-Gomez (16:25.22) and Dartmouth’s
Sarah Minnigh (16:30.60).
Harvard first-year
Samantha Shelton (1:54.01) set a championship meet record in her third event—the 200-yard backstroke, outpacing Brown’s
Sarah Welch (1:57.62) and Harvard teammate
Michelle Owens (1:58.02).
Bella Hindley bettered her championship meet record in the 100-yard freestyle in prelims (47.94) and then reset it (47.85) in the championship final. The time was also a DeNunzio Pool record. Hindley out-touched Harvard’s
Miki Dahlke (48.51) to retake the event crown and become the third three-time champion in the event. Harvard’s
Mei Lynn Colby (49.21) placed third behind the duo that has accounted for the last four 100-yard freestyle crowns.
After a five-year individual title drought, Dartmouth picked up two in less than 15 minutes as
Mackenzie Stumpf and
Mia Leko went back-to-back in the 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard butterfly.
Stumpf went 2:11.94 in the breaststroke to beat out the Yale trio of
Olivia Paoletti (2:12.32),
Destiny Nelson (2:13.01) and two-time defending champion
Cha O’Leary (2:13.16). Leko touched in 1:57.62 in the butterfly to top a field that included former event champions
Joanna Curry of Princeton (1:58.05) and
Sonia Wang of Harvard (1:59.00).
In the meet’s final individual event, Princeton junior
Mimi Lin gave the Tigers the diving sweep with 304.50 points—ahead of Columbia’s
Brighida Rosendahl (299.85) and fellow Tiger
Sophia Peifer (293.95).
In the 21st and final event of the meet, Harvard posted a DeNunzio Pool and championship meet record in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The Tigers (3:15.47) topped Yale (3:16.48) and Brown (3:18.80) in the event.