PRINCETON, N.J. – The All-Ivy teams, Coach of the Year and individual award winners were announced following last week’s 2023 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships at DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J..
 
Princeton head coach Bret Lundgaard was named the Coach of the Year after a vote by the League’s head coaches. In his sixth year at the helm, Lundgaard led the Tigers to a first place finish at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
 
Harvard and Princeton claimed individual honors, which were determined by points accumulated at the championships. Princeton’s Nikki Venema was the High Point Swimmer of the Meet accolades with the maximum 96 points, while Harvard’s Samantha Shelton was the Career High Point Swimmer. Princeton’s Charlotte Martinkus was the Rick Gilbert High Point Diver of the Meet with 55 points. Harvard’s Evie Geier was the Career High Point Diver.
 
Swimmers, divers and relay teams that finished first in an event final at the championships earned First Team All-Ivy recognition, while second-place finishers garnered Second Team All-Ivy honors.
 
Additionally, one Ivy League women's swimming and diving student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and in the pool as members of the 2022-23 Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Sam Scott, Columbia's Olivia Jubin, Cornell’s Emilie Boisrenoult, Dartmouth’s Christina Cianciolo, Harvard’s Samantha Shelton, Penn's Anna Kalandadze, Princeton’s Ela Noble and Yale’s Lindsey Wagner were each named to the team.
 
HIGH POINT SWIMMER OF THE MEET
Nikki Venema, Princeton (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.)
 
CAREER HIGH POINT SWIMMER
Samantha Shelton, Harvard (Sr. – San Antonio, Texas)
 
RICK GILBERT HIGH POINT DIVER OF THE MEET
Evie Geier, Harvard (Sr. – Carmel, Ind.)
 
CAREER HIGH POINT DIVER
Charlotte Martinkus, Princeton (Fr. – Weston, Mass.)
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Bret Lundgaard, Princeton
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
50-Yard Freestyle – Nikki Venema, Princeton (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.)
100-Yard Freestyle – Nikki Venema, Princeton (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.)
200-Yard Freestyle – Samantha Shelton, Harvard (Sr. – San Antonio, Texas)
500-Yard Freestyle – Anna Kalandadze, Penn (Sr. – Ardmore, Pa.)
1,650-Yard Freestyle – Anna Kalandadze, Penn (Sr. – Ardmore, Pa.)
200-Yard Individual Medley – Eliza Brown, Princeton (Fr. – Brookline, Mass.)
400-Yard Individual Medley – Ellie Marquardt, Princeton (Jr. – Charlotte, N.C.)
100-Yard Backstroke – Anya Mostek, Harvard (Fy. – Haverford, Pa.)
200-Yard Backstroke – Samantha Shelton, Harvard (Sr. – San Antonio, Texas)
100-Yard Butterfly – Nikki Venema, Princeton (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.)
200-Yard Butterfly – Karen Liu, Columbia (Sr. – Hong Kong)
100-Yard Breaststroke – Jessey Li, Yale (Fy. – Mason, Ohio)
200-Yard Breaststroke – Margaux McDonald, Princeton (Jr. – Orinda, Calif.)
One-Meter Diving – Charlotte Martinkus, Princeton (Fr. – Weston, Mass.)
Three-Meter Diving – Charlotte Martinkus, Princeton (Fr. – Weston, Mass.)
 
200-Yard Freestyle Relay – Princeton: Nikki Venema (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.), Sabrina Johnston (Fr. – Chappaqua, N.Y.), Amelia Liu (Sr. – Frisco, Texas), Elzbieta Noble (So. – Brisbane, Australia)
 
400-Yard Freestyle Relay – Princeton: Nikki Venema (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.), Sabrina Johnston (Fr. – Chappaqua, N.Y.), Elzbieta Noble (So. – Brisbane, Australia), Amelia Liu (Sr. – Frisco, Texas)

800-Yard Freestyle Relay – Princeton: Nikki Venema (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.), Sabrina Johnston (Fr. – Chappaqua, N.Y.), Caroline Lewitt (Fr. – London, England), Ellie Marquardt (Jr. – Charlotte, N.C.)

200-Yard Medley Relay – Princeton: Alexa Pappas (So. – Weston, Conn.), Margaux McDonald (Jr. – Orinda, Calif.), Nikki Venema (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.), Sabrina Johnston (Fr. – Chappaqua, N.Y.)

400-Yard Medley Relay – Harvard: Anya Mostek (Fy. – Haverford, Pa.), Kaia Li (Fy. – Atherton, Calif.), Sydney Lu (Fy. – Pleasanton, Calif.), Samantha Shelton (Sr. – San Antonio, Texas)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
50-Yard Freestyle – Amelia Liu, Princeton (Sr. – Frisco, Texas)
100-Yard Freestyle – Sabrina Johnston, Princeton (Fr. – Chappaqua, N.Y.)
200-Yard Freestyle – Ellie Marquardt, Princeton (Jr. – Charlotte, N.C.)
500-Yard Freestyle – Catherine Buroker, Penn (Sr. – Trumbull, Conn.)
1,650-Yard Freestyle – Sydney Bergstrom, Penn (Fr. – Swarthmore, Pa.)
200-Yard Individual Medley – Margaux McDonald, Princeton (Jr. – Orinda, Calif.)
400-Yard Individual Medley – Meg Wheeler, Princeton (Fr. – Perth, Ontario)
100-Yard Backstroke – Jenna Reznicek, Brown (So. – Boulder, Colo.)
200-Yard Backstroke – Anya Mostek, Harvard (Fy. – Haverford, Pa.)
100-Yard Butterfly – Sydney Lu, Harvard (Fy. – Pleasanton, Calif.)
200-Yard Butterfly – Alex Massey, Yale (Jr. – Nashville, Tenn.)
100-Yard Breaststroke – Ava Franks, Yale (So. – Irvington, N.Y.)
200-Yard Breaststroke – Ava Franks, Yale (So. – Irvington, N.Y.)
One-Meter Diving – Remi Edvalson, Harvard (So. – Saratoga, Calif.)
Three-Meter Diving – Elizabeth Miclau, Harvard (Jr. – San Francisco, Calif.)
 
200-Yard Freestyle Relay – Yale: Ophelia Pilkinton (Sr. – Nashville – Tenn.), Lindsey Wagner (Sr. – Bedford, N.H.), Caroline McCurdy (Fy. – Wellesley, Mass.), Jessey Li (Fy. – Mason, Ohio)
 
400-Yard Freestyle Relay – Yale: Lindsey Wagner (Sr. – Bedford, N.H.), Caroline McCurdy (Fy. – Wellesley, Mass.), Raime Jones (Sr. – Edina, Minn. & Dallas, Texas), Ophelia Pilkinton (Sr. – Nashville – Tenn.)

800-Yard Freestyle Relay – Harvard: Anya Mostek (Fy. – Haverford, Pa.), Samantha Shelton (Sr. – San Antonio, Texas), Sydney Lu (Fy. – Pleasanton, Calif.), Molly Hamlin (So. – Reading, Mass.)

200-Yard Medley Relay – Yale: Lindsey Wagner (Sr. – Bedford, N.H.), Jessey Li (Fy. – Mason, Ohio), Alex Massey (Jr. – Nashville, Tenn.), Ophelia Pilkinton (Sr. – Nashville – Tenn.)

400-Yard Medley Relay – Princeton: Isabella Korbly (So. – Acton, Mass.), Margaux McDonald (Jr. – Orinda, Calif.), Heidi Smithwick (Fr. – Jupiter, Fla.), Amelia Liu (Sr. – Frisco, Texas)