Veith's All-Ivy Swim Helps Keep Princeton 3rd At Ivy Champs

Thursday, February 15

Boston, Mass.

11:00 AM/6:00 PM

Princeton University

Ivy Championships Day 2

Princeton University women's swimming and diving vs. Columbia, Princeton, NJ, December 8, 2017.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Veith's All-Ivy Swim Helps Keep Princeton 3rd At Ivy Champs

February 15, 2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving

DAY 2 RESULTS l DAY 1 RECAP

Senior tri-captain Maddy Veith helped set a program record during her first swim at the Ivy League Championships, and she followed it up with a sensational Thursday in the 50 free. She posted the fourth-best time in program history and earned All-Ivy League honors with a runner-up finish in the championship final.

That effort helped Princeton put some distance between itself and Penn for third place at the Ivy League Championships. The Tigers end Thursday with 472 points, nearly 200 more than Penn (295), and they remain within shouting distance of frontrunners Harvard (545) and Yale (503).

Junior Monica McGrath was the lone Tiger in the 500 free A final, and she placed eighth overall in 4:53.36. However, her teammates did their jobs in the other finals; senior tri-captain Claire McIlmail won the B final in 4:48.37, while freshman teammate Courtney Tseng bounced back from a tough prelim with an impressive 4:49.83 to win the C final.

Princeton's best morning prelim came in the 200 IM, when it placed four in the A final and two more in the B. Junior tri-captain Joanna Curry became only the fourth Tiger to go under 2:00 in her 200 IM prelim, and she was Princeton's top finisher in the A final (3^rd, 2:00.14). Classmate Izzy Reis, a strong contender in both fly events later in the weekend, took fifth in 2:00.58. Senior Lindsay Temple (7^th, 2:02.69) and freshman Regan Barney (8^th, 2:02.77) rounded out the A final, while Christie Chong added an 11^th-place finish in 2:01.33.

Veith had her All-Ivy performance in the 50 free final, when she finished second to multi-time Ivy champion Bella Hindley of Yale. Veith went 22.83, just off her lifetime best 22.81 in the prelim, to edge Harvard's Mei Lynn Colby by .01 of a second for All-Ivy League honors.

What a swim by Tiger tri-captain Maddy Veith, who earns All-Ivy honors as the runner-up in a thrilling 50 free. Her prelim time of 22.81 is 4th-fastest in program history! pic.twitter.com/VgRWgd8UzW
— Princeton Swim/Dive (@PUCSDT) February 16, 2018

Princeton got a look at its youth on the 1-meter boards throughout the day and felt good about what it saw. There were only four underclassmen who finished in the Top 10 in the 1-meter competition, and three of them wore the Orange and Black. Sophomore Natasha MacManus took sixth with 269.10 points, while freshman Sophia Peifer finished eighth with 238.15 points. Freshman Sine Scribbick was terrific in the consolation final, which she won with 270.80 points.

The quartet of Reis, Veith, Elsa Welshofer, and Temple concluded the night with a fourth-place finish in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:31.47.

Friday's prelim session will begin at 11 am, while the final will start at 6 pm. The order of events is below.

Prelims (11 a.m.)
1 • 400-yard individual medley
2 • 100-yard butterfly
3 • 200-yard freestyle
4 • 100-yard breaststroke
5 • 100-yard backstroke
6 • 3-meter diving prelims (1:30 p.m.)
7 • 1000-yard freestyle (all but fastest heat)
(to begin at approximately 4:00 p.m.)

Finals (6 p.m.)
1 • 1000-yard freestyle (fastest heat)
2 • 400-yard individual medley
3 • 100-yard butterfly
4 • 200-yard freestyle
5 • 100-yard breaststroke
6 • 100-yard backstroke
7 • 3-meter diving consolation finals
8 • 400-yard medley relay (timed final)