Men's Swim/Dive Heads To Boston For Annual H-Y-P Weekend

With months of training behind them, the Princeton men's swimming and diving team will finally head into February with two big weekends on their minds. The first one comes immediately, as both the Tigers and Yale will head to Blodgett Pool in Boston for the two-day HYP weekend, starting Friday at 6 pm.

The full two-session meet will be streamed live on the Ivy League Network (subscription required). You can watch the first session here, and you can see the second session (Saturday, noon) here.

Both Princeton and Harvard will enter the weekend with perfect 5-0 Ivy League records, while Yale is 4-1 after an early-season loss to Columbia. Should either Princeton and Harvard sweep the weekend, that school will earn the dual meet title and will take a great deal of momentum into the 2018 Ivy League Championships, which will be held Feb. 21-24 at DeNunzio Pool in Princeton.

Princeton enters the HYP weekend on a six-race win streak, including a pre-finals thriller over Navy. A double win for Cole Buese and a key 2-3 finish by the 400 free relay helped the Tigers to a 151.5-148.5 win over the Midshipmen in mid-January. That win followed five victories against Ivy League competition, as well as a win in the annual Big Al Open.

Buese is one of several Princeton swimmers who will get an early sense of where he stands before the Ivy League Championships. He enters the weekend with the second-fastest 200 fly time (1:45.82) in the Ivy League, while senior teammate Ben Schafer has the second-fastest 100 fly time (47.58). Schafer also has one of the league's fastest 50 free times, though Yale and Harvard also both have Top-5 swimmers in the event.

Below are the order of events for both days:

FRIDAY
200 free relay
200 free
100 back
100 breast
200 fly
50 free
200 IM
1M diving
1650 free
400 medley relay

SATURDAY
200 medley relay
400 IM
100 free
200 back
100 fly
500 free
3M diving
200 breast
400 free relay

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