PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- (Day Two Finals Results | Day Three Prelims Heat Sheet) Two pool and one championship meet records fell in Thursday evening’s finals at the 2020 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, as Harvard maintained a two-point lead over Princeton through seven events. 

Princeton’s Ellie Marquardt made her individual championships debut in the 500-yard freestyle, erasing an 11-year old championship meet record in the process. Her time of 4:36.37 shaved 2.59 seconds off of fellow Tiger Alicia Aemisegger’s championship meet record that had stood since 2009. The freshman, Princeton’s first titlist in the event since Aemisegger, was followed by Harvard senior Miki Dahlke (4:39.30) and Penn sophomore Catherine Buroker (4:45.58). 
 

11 YEARS IN THE MAKING.

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— The Ivy League (@IvyLeague) February 21, 2020

Harvard freshman Felicia Pasadyn made it back-to-back individual titles by first-years with a pool record time of 1:55.98 in the 200-yard individual medley. Pasadyn’s victory was the fifth-straight 200-yard individual medley title for the Crimson. A pair of seniors—Princeton's Christie Chong (1:57.89) and Columbia’s Helen Wojdylo (1:58.74)—rounded out the top three. 
 
With four-time 50-yard freestyle champion Bella Hindley of Yale having graduated, Princeton freshman Nikki Venema continued the youth movement by claiming the event title with a time of 22.41. Fellow Tiger freshman Amelia Liu (22.48) made it a 1-2 Princeton finish, with Brown junior Taylor Seaman (22.51) rounding out the top three. 
 
Five schools—Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale—were represented in the one-meter diving final, where Harvard sophomore Morgane Herculano (292.05) bested 2019 champion Princeton junior Sine Scribbick (289.75), Princeton senior Mimi Lin (275.90) and 2018 champion Yale junior Nikki Watters (272.35). 

Six divers reached the NCAA A cut line of 265.00 points—Herculano, Scribbick, Lin, Watters, Cornell sophomore Demetra Williams (266.50) and Harvard freshman Evie Greer (265.50). Consolation final champion Harvard sophomore Esther Lawrence (271.70) also reached the cut line. 

In the night’s final event, the 200-yard freestyle relay, Princeton (1:29.76) out-touched Harvard (1:29.80)  by .04 seconds. Dartmouth placed third, touching in 1:31.00. 



Through seven events, Harvard and Princeton have distanced themselves from the rest of the Ivy League field. Harvard paces the meet with 510 points, just ahead of Princeton at 508. Yale (352.5), Columbia (287), Brown (284), Penn (281), Dartmouth (248) and Cornell (219.5) round out the eight-team field. 
 
Coverage of the 2020 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships will continue with preliminaries at 11 a.m. Friday—live on ESPN+.