PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton University Tigers pulled away on the final day of the 2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships to secure their second consecutive title.
This year’s win is Princeton’s 33rd overall championship and their 24th outright championship, which breaks a tie with Harvard for most in Ivy League history.
The Tigers finished the championships with 1,474 points, topping Yale, who finished second with 1,274.50 points after coming in third last season. The Bulldogs second place finish was their highest in the meet since placing first in 1972. Harvard, the runners-up from a year ago, came in third with 1,173.50 points, followed by Columbia with 901.50. Cornell placed fifth in the 2026 championship with 841 team points, Brown was sixth with 805 points, Dartmouth was seventh and Penn was eighth with 694 and 677.50, respectively.
Princeton closed out the 2026 Ivy League Championships in fashion, winning four of the evening session’s seven events. Harvard won two events, the first two of Day 4, and Penn won the other. And, keeping with the theme of the week, another four Ivy Meet and DeNunzio Pool records fell on the night.
The first event of the final session was the 1,650 yard freestyle. The distance event produced the same top-3 as yesterday’s 1,000 yard freestyle race, with Harvard’s William Mulgrew, adding another gold medal to his haul by posting an Ivy Meet and pool record 14:26.79 time – the third fastest time in the nation this season. He beat Yale’s Noah Millard, the previous record holder and first team All-American in the event last season, by nearly 15 seconds as Millard finished in 14:41.76 and Crimson first-year, Pablo Martinez Palop took third with a time of 14:56.43.
Adriano Arioti gave Harvard its second first-place finish in as many events to start the Saturday session, with the sophomore winning the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 1:39.60, nearly one second faster than second place. Second and third place were separated by a single hundredth of a second, with Columbia’s Isaac Beers touching the wall in 1:40.58, just ahead of Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli’s 1:40.59. All of the top three finishers were well ahead of the current NCAA D1 qualifying time of 1:42.14.
Princeton’s first event win of the night came in the 100 yard freestyle, which saw sophomore Patrick Dinu break another set of Ivy Meet and DeNunzio Pool records. His time of 41.36 seconds put him ahead of a pair of Bulldogs, as Yale’s Nicholas Finch and Deniel Nankov took second and third with finishes of 41.84 and 42.73 seconds, respectively.
The Quakers saw Watson Nguyen win his second gold medal in as many days with the sophomore come in just ahead of teammate Peter Whittington to win the 200 yard breaststroke. His time of 1:52.03 was just 0.07 seconds faster than Whittington’s. Columbia’s Joshua Corn took the bronze with a close third-place time of 1:52.34.
Princeton put two in the top three and really created distance in the team standings between them and the field following the 200 yard butterfly as the Tigers had five of the eight scorers in the event. Mitchell Schott won his second consecutive title in the event, beating his Ivy Meet record time by over a second, posting a 1:39.05 in the finals. That time was also good enough to break the pool record. Harvard’s David Schmitt took second in 1:41.06 and Princeton’s Arthur Balva took bronze with a time of 1:42.10.
The championship turned to the diving area of the pool with the 3 meter diving finals. Princeton’s Aidan Wang totaled 391.15 points across his dives to win the gold medal, going back-to-back-to-back in the event, followed by 371.40 points by first-year teammate Luka Martinovic. Dartmouth sophomore McCoy Lyman totaled 351.50 points in his dives, finishing ahead of the cluster of Princeton divers for the bronze medal.
The 400 yard freestyle relay was the icing on the proverbial cake for Princeton, as, with the title already in hand, their relay team of Schott, Logan Noguchi, Jake Tarara, and Dinu treated the home pool fans to a record-setting performance. Schott had the Tigers out in front after the first leg and Dinu anchored with a 40.62-second split to bring it home for Princeton in 2:48.36, setting new Ivy Meet and DeNunzio Pool records while also coming in ahead of the D1 qualifying time for 2026 nationals. Yale’s relay team finished second with a time of 2:49.46 and Harvard’s quartet came in third in 2:51.37 to close out their night.