Buese Caps Career With 1st Ivy Title; Khosla Breaks 200 Fly Record For 2nd Championship

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November 8, 11AM

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Princeton, N.J.

COMPLETE RESULTS

For Cole Buese, it was a perfect way to cap his Ivy League career. For Raunak Khosla, it was a thrilling way to close his first Ivy Championships.

For Princeton, it was a spectacular final day to the 2018-19 Ivy season.

Buese, one of Princeton's highest-scoring swimmers over his career, added the missing piece to his Tiger résumé by winning the 200 back Ivy League title during Saturday's final session of the 2019 Ivy Championships. Later that session, Khosla rallied in the final 50 of the 200 fly to win his second title of the weekend.

Those results helped Princeton secure second place for the weekend with 1209.5 points. Harvard won the title with 1432.5, while Penn finished second with 1120.5.

Princeton opened the final session with a 5-6-7 finish in the mile. Sophomore Levy Nathan finished fifth in 15:16.99, while freshman Brendan Firlie placed sixth in 15:19.03. Sophomore Sam Tarter rounded out the trio in 15:26.64.

Buese, who placed second in the 200 fly at the 2018 Ivy Championships, took that final step up the podium by surging past Harvard senior Daniel Tran to win the Ivy title in 1:43.35, now the second-fastest time in Princeton history. Junior teammate Wade O'Brien added a seventh-place finish in 1:46.74.

The captain did it!!! In his final night of @IvyLeague swimming, Cole Buese claimed his FIRST Ivy title in a 200 back thriller! pic.twitter.com/beR49zRtqk
— Princeton Swim/Dive (@PUCSDT) March 3, 2019

Senior co-captain Murphy McQuet went 43.50, the seventh-fastest time in Princeton history, to place sixth in the 100 free final, and junior Daniel Arris went 1:57.54 in the 200 breast to finish fourth in the A final and move to fourth all-time at Princeton.

While several teammates made moves into Princeton Top 10, Khosla pushed assistant coach Doug Lennox '09 from the top spot of the 200 fly during his thrilling 200 fly win. Harvard freshman Jacob Johnson led the race after 150, but Khosla found a level nobody could match and won the race in 1:42.05, more than half a second faster than Princeton swimmer in history.

Make it TWO titles for freshman Raunak Khosla, who rallied in the final 50 to win the 200 fly! What a Saturday night for PUCSDT! pic.twitter.com/GjsgkW9epU
— Princeton Swim/Dive (@PUCSDT) March 3, 2019

Derek Cox, who won the 100 breast title during Friday's session, added an eighth-place finish in 1:48.30.

Sophomore Colten Young continued to prove he is the best Ivy League diver not named Jonathan Suckow, as the Tiger sophomore placed second in the 3-meter final by less than one point ahead of Dartmouth's Justin Sodokoff. Young has now been the Ivy runner-up in three straight events dating back to last season, and each time he has fallen to Suckow.

Junior Charlie Minns, who placed third Thursday in the 1-meter final, took sixth in the 3-meter final.

The quartet of Christian Feiler, Joshua Brown, Buese and McQuet closed the meet by placing sixth in the 400 free relay in 2:56.11.

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