PRINCETON, N.J. — Records continued to fall inside DeNunzio Pool on Day 3 of the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, as three Ivy Meet records and four pool records were broken across the night’s seven events.
 
Five different athletes from five different programs punched their tickets to the NCAA Championships set for March 25-28 in Atlanta with their event wins: Nick Finch, Yale (100 Fly), Marton Nagy, Brown (400 IM), Mitchell Schott, Princeton (200 Free), Watson Nguyen, Penn (100 Breast) and Blake Conway, Cornell (100 Back)
 
Princeton maintained its lead in the team standings with 952 points through 14 events, followed by Yale with 874.5 points. The Tigers, who led by 81.5 points after Thursday’s action, secured just one event victory in the evening session compared to Yale’s two, but strong finishes across the finals helped preserve their overall advantage. Harvard sits in third with 785.5 points.
 
Brown, Cornell, and Columbia remain in a tight race, separated by just 5.5 points. Brown holds fourth with 586 points, followed by Cornell (581) and Columbia (580.5). Dartmouth is seventh with 466 points, while Penn stands eighth with 444.5 points after earning one event win on the night.
 
Harvard’s William Mulgrew touched the wall in 8:38.01 in the 1000-yard freestyle. His performance set both a new Ivy Meet and DeNunzio Pool record, surpassing the previous Ivy League all-time best by 8.98 seconds. Yale senior Noah Millard claimed silver in 8:45.38, also under the former meet record, while Harvard first-year Pablo Martinez Palop placed third in 8:53.77.
 
Yale’s Nicholas Finch successfully defended his Ivy League title in the 100-yard butterfly, winning by more than one second. Finch clocked a 44.34. He broke own Ivy Meet and Ivy League all-time record of 44.57 set last twice as he clocked a 44.49 in prelims. Five swimmers in the event finished under the NCAA Division I qualifying standard of 46.11. Harvard’s David Schmitt took second (45.44), and Princeton’s Logan Noguchi took third (45.50).
 
Brown sophomore Marton Nagy followed up his runner-up finish in the 200-yard individual medley with a gold medal performance in the 400-yard individual medley. Nagy touched in 3:41.89, improving on last year’s winning time by more than half a second. Penn’s Peter Whittington finished second, and Dartmouth’s Jacob Turner placed third in 3:44.39.
 
Princeton swept the top two spots in the 200-yard freestyle, as Mitchell Schott defended his 2025 title with a winning time of 1:31.52, improving on his championship performance from a year ago and moving into third all-time in Ivy League history. Teammate Patrick Dinu finished second in 1:33.83, just 0.10 seconds ahead of the NCAA qualifying mark, while Harvard’s David Greeley placed third in 1:34.39.
 
Penn secured its first event victory of the championships in the 100-yard breaststroke. Watson Nguyen set a new DeNunzio Pool record with a time of 51.18. Yale’s Charlie Egeland (52.18) and Jake Wang (52.21) finished second and third, respectively.
 
Cornell’s Blake Conway captured the 100-yard backstroke title in 45.77, posting the eighth-fastest time in Ivy League history. Columbia’s Isaac Beers finished second in 45.89, followed by Harvard’s Adriano Arioti in 46.01. Five swimmers in the event beat the NCAA Division I qualifying time of 46.29.
 
The evening concluded with the 400-yard medley relay, where Yale’s team of Wang, Egeland, Finch, and Deniel Nankov set new Ivy Meet and DeNunzio Pool records with a winning time of 3:04.65. Harvard placed second in 3:05.83, and Columbia finished third in 3:07.92.
 
The 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships conclude Saturday, February 28. Preliminaries begin at 11 a.m., followed by finals at 6 p.m. All sessions are available live on ESPN+.