PRINCETON, N.J. — Following the second day of competition at the Ivy League Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, multiple pool and meet records were broken as Princeton — winning four of the five finals on the day — took the team lead heading into Friday's action. 

The Tigers have 532 team points and head into Friday with an 85.5-point advantage over Harvard, who have 446.5 team points. Brown is in third with 399.5, followed by Penn with 353, Yale with 318, Cornell with 245, Columbia with 202, and Dartmouth with 194.

Harvard’s Alexandra Bastone led off the day with the gold medal in the 500-Yard freestyle, defending her Ivy League crown and punching her ticket to the NCAA Championships in the process with a time of 4:40.94, clearing second place by nearly 2 seconds. The Quakers had a pair of swimmers, Anna Moehn and Sydney Bergstrom, take the silver and bronze, respectively.

Next up was the 200-Yard individual medley where Princeton’s Eleanor Sun had set the top prelim time at 1:57.67. Each of the top-five finishers in the finals bettered their preliminary time, but Sun pulled away from the field, setting a Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center record of 1:55.62 and clinching her spot in the NCAA Championships. Sun's teammate, Sophie Segerson held off Penn’s Katya Eruslanova for the silver.

Princeton again put two swimmers on the podium in the 50-Yard freestyle final with another Tiger setting a pool record in the event. Sabrina Johnston touched the wall in 22.07 seconds to take the gold and break the previous pool record. Harvard got back into the top three with Anya Mostek earning silver, and Princeton first-year Sophia Sunwoo took the bronze to round out the top three finishers. The title and time for Johnston also clinched her spot in Atlanta in mid-March.

Another 1-2 finish for Princeton, this time in 1 meter diving, added to their team lead. Charlotte Martinkus, a senior from Weston, Mass., shattered the Ivy League Meet record of 314.20, which was set 10 years ago, en route to winning the gold medal. She posted a 318.45 to take the top spot, besting her sophomore teammate, Charlotte Norman, by 13 points. Norman took the silver and Harvard’s Nina Janmyr earned the bronze, with the three podium finishers being the only divers to post a score over 300.

The last event of the night was the 200-Yard freestyle relay. In what was arguably the most thrilling event of the night, both Princeton and Harvard set pool records with their times. The Tigers quartet of Johnston, Sophia Sunwoo, Edie Simecek, and Veronique Rossouw finished in 1:28.31, just 0.09 off the meet record, to win the gold, while Harvard’s relay team of Mostek, Sydney Lu, Sarah Beckman, and Blythe Wieclawek finished in 1:28.79. Both times beat the previous pool record of 1:29.03 set in 2024.

Action resumes tomorrow, February 20^th, with prelims set to begin at 11 a.m. The finals pick up at 6 p.m. and all action can be seen on ESPN+.