Princeton University Athletics
150 Years ? Men's Swimming & Diving
November 19, 2014 | Men's Swimming and Diving
| Men's Swimming & Diving |
| First Meet: April 21, 1906 vs. Yale |
| 27 EISL/Ivy League Championships |
| 1925 | John Hawkins becomes Princeton's first individual national champion, winning the 440 free in 5:24.5. |
| 1936 | Al Vande Weghe becomes Princeton's first Olympic medalist, taking silver in the 100 back in 1:07.7. Vande Weghe would go on to win three individual national championships. |
| 1951 | Bob Brawner goes back-to-back at the NCAAs for a second straight year, sweeping both the 100 and 200 fly for his third and fourth individual championships. |
| 1964 | Jed Graef becomes Princeton's first Olympic gold medalist, winning the 200 back in 2:10.3 (scoreboard pictured above) |
| 1965 | Princeton wins its first of an league-best 29 Ivy League Championships |
| 1979 | Rob Orr takes over as head coach. He would lead Princeton to the Ivy title next season, and he heads into this season with a program-best 299 dual victories. |
| 1984 | Princeton shares the Ivy League title with Columbia, Cornell and Harvard. That started a run when Princeton either won outright or shared the Ivy League title nine straight years. |
| 1990 | Mike Ross, Le Roy Kim, Ty Nelson and Erik Osborn capture the most recent NCAA championship for Princeton, winning the 200 medley relay in 1:27.31. |
| 1992 | Nelson Diebel becomes the program's second Olympic gold medalist, winning the 100 breast (1:01.50) and the 4x100 medley relay. |
| 2005 | Diver Kent DeMond earns All-America on the platform for the first of back-to-back seasons. |
| 2011 | Princeton holds off Harvard by 5.5 points to win the Ivy League championship for the third time in a five-year title run. It remains the closest margin of victory in the history of the event. |
| 2012 | Jon Christensen reaches the NCAA championship in the 200 breast for first-team All-America honors. |
The 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event in Princeton University history will be Nov. 22, 2014, which will be 150 years to the day that Princeton defeated Williams 27-16 in a baseball game. As part of the 150th celebration, Princeton will be commemorating the history of each of its 38 varsity teams, in reverse order of the time they became varsity programs.
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