PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Harvard secured its sixth consecutive Ivy League title Saturday evening at the 2023 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship hosted at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center.
Harvard (1545), Princeton (1433.5) and Yale (1052) each finished above the 1,000 point barrier.
Princeton’s Raunak Khosla and Yale’s Noah Millard were the Phil Moriarty High Point Swimmers of the Meet. Each finished with 96 points, the highest possible total. Khosla closed out his Ivy career with 380 career points at Ivy championships to also take home Harold Ulen Career High Point Swimmer Award. Columbia’s Jonathan Suckow claimed both the Karl B. Michael High Point Diver of the Meet and the Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver Award. Suckow finished with the highest possible point total for both awards 64 for the meet and 256 during his career.
No strangers to the awards, Khosla won the meet high point swimmer three times during his career and Suckow won the meet high point diving award all four years.
Millard opened the evening with a time of 14:47 in the 1650 yard freestyle to secure his third gold medal of the meet. The top 11 finishers in the event posted NCAA B cut times.
Gunner Grant claimed his third career title in the 200 back with a time of 1:41.43. The Crimson earned the top two spots in the event as Anthony Rincon was the next to touch the wall in 1:42.29.
Yale’s Joe Page won the 100 freestyle with a time of 42.73. He was followed by Harvard’s Marcus Holmquist (42.96) and Princeton’s Mitchell Schott (43.08).
The 200 breaststroke came down to the wire with Columbia’s Demirkan Demir claiming first in 1:52.94 – marking his second event win of the meet. Brown’s Jack Kelly (1:53.18) and Penn’s Matthew Fallon (1:53.34) took second and third.
Khosla wrapped up his individual Ivy championship career by winning the 200 butterfly in a pool record time of 1:41.72. The Roswell, Ga., native edged out his teammate Nicholas Lim, who finished in 1:42.53. Columbia’s Adam Wu placed third in 1:43.95.
Suckow put the finishing touch on his Ivy career by claiming the 3M diving title for the fourth time in his career with a score of 434.0. The Geneva, Switzerland, native became the first diver in Ivy League championship history to be a four-time champ in both the 1M and 3M Diving.
The Crimson closed out the meet by setting a pool record in the 400 freestyle relay. Harvard’s quartet of Ryan Linnahan, Umit Gures, David Greeley and Marcus Holmquist posted a time of 2:51.23. Yale’s and Princeton’s relay also finished in times faster than the pool record entering the race.