PRINCETON, N.J. — Another set of Ivy meet and pool records fell on Friday night as the third day of the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship came to a close. Princeton extended their lead in the team event with a number of strong finishes throughout the night.

The Tigers have 948 points heading into Saturday’s events, with Penn in second with 770 points. Harvard slipped a spot to third place with 744.5 points. Brown is close behind with 736 points, then Yale with 606 points, Cornell with 428 points, Dartmouth with 343.5, and Columbia with 337.

Harvard won three events on the night, with the first coming in the 100 Yard Butterfly. Fourth-year Sydney Lu was the only swimmer to finish in under 52 seconds, winning the gold medal with a 51.97 time. Heidi Smithwick of Princeton came in second with a time of 52.94 seconds and Penn’s Kayla Fu rounded out the top three, finishing in 53.05 seconds.

Princeton’s lone victory of the evening came in the 400 Yard Individual Medley. In fact, the Tigers swept the podium with Eleanor Sun taking gold, Chloe Kim earning silver, and Sophie Segerson taking the bronze in the event. Sun set a new Ivy meet record with a time of 4:05.55, beating the previous record, which stood for 17 years, by 0.20 seconds.

Brown took first and second in the 200 Yard Freestyle and nearly took all three spots as the Bears’ Isabella Dieffenthaller finished 0.22 seconds out of third. Brown senior Morgan Lukinac took the gold and sophomore Crystal Yuen took home the silver medal. Princeton first-year Savannah Skow earned the bronze in the event.

A pair of Yale swimmers, Jessey Li and Devyn Sargent, bookended the top three finishers in the 100 Yard Breastroke, with Penn’s Kate Handley finishing second. Li topped her preliminary time by nearly a second to take first, with Handley and Sargent finishing right behind her.

Another Ivy meet record was broken in the 100 Yard Backstroke with Harvard fourth-year Anya Mostek breaking her own record from last year’s event and being the first to post a sub-52-second time in the event. She finished in 51.31 seconds to take the gold, followed by a then-pool record-tying 52.15 finish by Penn’s Amy Qin. Third place was taken by Princeton’s Sabrina Johnston with a time of 52.58. Mostek's title was her fourth 100 yard backstroke gold medal in her career.

The final event of the night was the 400 Yard Medley Relay, which saw the foursome of Mostek, Aliana Marakovic, Lu, and Blythe Wieclawek pull away from the field early and then best the Ivy Meet record, touching the wall in 3:32.44. Penn finished second in 3:35.67 and Princeton took third with a finish of 3:36.32.

Four more Ivies (Sun, Lu, Lukinac, and Mostek) punched their tickets to the NCAA Championships in their respective events.

The final day of the 2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships begins tomorrow at 11 a.m. with preliminary action followed by the finals in the evening session at 6 p.m. All action will be streamed on ESPN+.