PRINCETON, N.J. — 11 Ivies from five different schools are set for the start of the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships tomorrow at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event spans from Wednesday, March 18 to Saturday, March 21. All action will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
From Brown,
Morgan Lukinac will compete in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyler after qualifying with times of 1:44.20 and 48.29, respectively. Her teammate,
Natalie Garre, qualified for the 1650-yard freestyle which is the first event of the championship on Wednesday. Garre qualified with a time of 16:11.29.
Racing alongside Garre will be
Anna Moehn and
Sydney Bergstrom from Penn as well as Yale's
Caroline Riggs. Bergstrom had the fastest qualifying time in the Ivy League at 16:02.63 with Moehn just behind at 16:06.59 and Riggs at 16:15.74.
Harvard had three student-athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships as
Alexandra Bastone, 2025's Co-High Point Swimmer of the Meet, enters the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:40.94. Bastone's teammate, Sydney Lu, qualified for the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.97. This year's Career High Point Swimmer,
Anya Mostek, punched her ticket in two events, the 100-yard and 200-yard backstrokes.
The Crimson have the only diver to qualify for the NCAAs from the Ivy League as Nina Janmyr qualified in the one-meter.
For Princeton, three student-athletes (
Sabrina Johnston,
Heidi Smithwick, and
Eleanor Sun) qualified for the event. Johnston's time of 22.07 was enough to qualify her for the 50-yard freestyle. Both Smithwick and Sun qualified for the 200-yard butterfly with times of 1:55.89 and 1:54.78, respectively. Sun then qualified in two other events as well, the 200-yard and 400-yard individual medleys.