PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Yale holds the team lead after the first day of competition at the 2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center on Brown University’s campus.
 
The 800-yard freestyle relay saw a pair of NCAA A cut times. Princeton’s quartet of Arthur Balva, Mitchell Schott, Noah Sech and Patrick Dinu set the new meet record with a time of 6:13.75, the 16th fastest time in the nation this year. The 17th fastest time, and the second fastest in meet history, belonged to Yale’s squad of Jake Wang, Charlie Egeland, Deniel Nankov and Noah Milliard with a 6:13.98 mark. Millard anchored the relay with a blistering 1:30.44 split.
 
The Bulldogs won the opening event of the evening with a 1:24.00 in the 200-yard medley relay, with Lucius Brown, Alexander Hazlett, Nicholas Finch and Deniel Nankov posting the second fastest time in meet history.
 
Harvard won the team diving relay with a score of 355.15.
 
TEAM SCORES
1. Yale – 120
2. Princeton – 112
3. Cornell – 108
3. Harvard – 108
5. Brown – 100
6. Columbia – 96
7. Penn – 94
8. Dartmouth –  90