.png&width=24&type=webp)
Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Penn
Players Mentioned
Men's Swimming/Diving Sweeps Penn, Cornell To Open Ivy Season
November 21, 2009 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Jon Christensen won three events while three Tiger teammates won two as Princeton topped Penn 193-102 and Cornell 191-104.
Princeton opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:32.37, .2 of a second faster than Cornell's top team. The foursome of Kaspar Raigla, Jon Christensen, Mike Monovoukas and Geoff Faux posted the winning time and got the Tigers off on the right foot.
Reigning Ivy League 500 free champion Travis McNamara won the 1000 in 9:33.35, topping teammate Patrick Biggs by five seconds. Senior tri-captain Christopher Quemena won a thriller over Jon Hartmann by .03 of a second to win the 200 free (1:40.08).
Raigla, who has gotten his freshman season off to a strong start over the last two weeks, won the 100 back in 50.79, while medley relay teammate Christensen won the 100 breast in 56.09.
Bryan Tay won his first individual event as a Princeton Tiger by winning the 200 fly in 1:50.17, less that one second faster than his Cornell challenger, while Faux (21.01) held off freshman teammate Andres Tung (21.08) to win the 50 free.
A break in the swimming allowed senior diver Daniel Dickerson a chance to remind people of how he broke through at the 2009 Ivy League Championships. Dickerson won the 3-meter diving event in 303.20, while freshman teammate Stevie Vines posted a strong second-place score of 297.75.
Quemena earned his second win of the night by topping Tay and Tung in a time of 45.68 in the 100 free. Cornell picked up its first win when Christopher Keady win the 200 back in 1:52.61, but Cordes added a second-place finish in 1:52.86.
Christensen became a double winner by taking the 200 breast in 2:01.81, more than three and a half seconds faster than the rest of the field. McNamara won his specialty, the 500, in 4:34.21 to become a third Princeton double-winner, and Tay quickly followed as a fourth by taking the 100 fly in 49.64.
Penn earned its only win of the night when diver Jeff Cragg, a top-three finisher in both events at the 2009 league meet, won the 1-meter competition with 283.0 points. Vines placed second with 274.4 points, while Dickerson and senior Michael Papageorge took third and fourth.
Christensen battled Quemena for the first triple winner and held off his senior teammate in the 200 IM; Christensen's winning time of 1:50.84 topped Quemena by less than half a second, while nobody else finished within three seconds.
The team of Faux, Matt Lamonaca, Mike Monovoukas and Will Lawley finished the night by winning the 400 free relay in a time of 3:07.51.
Princeton will be off for Thanksgiving weekend and return to the pool in two weeks for the Bucknell Open. That meet will also count as the dual meet against Ivy League rival Brown.