No. 25 Men's Swimming & Diving Heads To Columbia

Friday, November 15

New York, N.Y.

1:00 PM

Princeton University

Columbia

Patrick Dinu

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

November 14, 2024 | Men's Swimming and Diving

PRINCETON, N.J.- The Tigers are back in the pool after picking up two wins against Brown and Dartmouth in the season opener at DeNunzio Pool. Princeton will travel to New York to face the Columbia Lions on Nov. 15. The meet is set to start at 1:00 PM.

Romanian Rocket

Patrick Dinu quickly made waves in his first ever collegiate meet on Nov. 9. The freshman broke both a freshmen and program record in the season opener at DeNunzio Pool. He recorded a time of 42.51 in the 100 freestyle for the program record and a 53.49 in the 100 breaststroke for the freshmen record.

Shoot Your Schott

Mitch Schott started the 2024-25 season off with a bang. The junior captain broke his own record in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:32.78. He currently is in the top 10 fastest times for four different events.

Diving Dominance

Aidan Wang led the way for Princeton on the boards. The sophomore won both diving events on the 1-meter and 3-meter. The Tigers took the top three spots in 3-meter diving with Luca Fassi and George Callanan coming in second and third respectively.

Top 25 Tigers

After a strong opening weekend, Princeton moved into the No. 25 spot on the November edition of the CSCAA dual meet poll.

2023-24 NCAA Qualifiers

Aidan Wang, Luca Fassi and George Callanan represented the men's swimming and diving team at the NCAA Championships. Wang and Fassi competed on 1-Meter and 3-Meter and Callanan on platform.

All-Ivy

The Tigers return eight members of their 2023-24 roster that earned All-Ivy honors. The First Team included Aidan Wang (1-meter and 3-meter) and Noah Sech (400 individual medley). Tyler Hong picked up Second Team honors in the 200 individual medley. Brett Feyereick Mitch Schott, Daniel Li and Lucas Tudoras were Second Team All-Ivy in the 400 freestyle relay. Schott, Sech, and Max Hunger were part of the Second Team All-Ivy 800 freestyle relay.

Olympic Moments

Princeton had swimmers and divers from 12 different countries compete at the Olympic trials. Yanning Zhang (Australia), Lucas Tudoras (Brazil), Parker Lenoce (Canada), Lucas Strøbeck (Denmark), Rasmus Makela (Finland), Santiago Gutierrez (Mexico), Patrick Dinu (Romania), Max Seidel (Switzerland), Arthur Balva (United States), Devyn Caples (United States), Luca Fassi (United States), Brett Feyerick (United States), Tyler Hong (United States), Daniel Li (United States), Conor McKenna (United States), Mitchell Schott (United States), Noah Sech (United States), Aidan Wang (United States), and Andrew Zou (United States) all pursued bids for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.