Ivy Championship No. 25 — Princeton Rolls To Women's Swimming And Diving Title

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Women's Swimming and Diving

November 7, 6PM

at Dartmouth

Women's Swimming and Diving

November 7, 6PM

vs Brown

Women's Swimming and Diving

November 8, 11AM

at Dartmouth

Women's Swimming and Diving

November 8, 11AM

vs Brown

Women's Swimming and Diving

November 15, 11AM

vs Rutgers

Princeton, N.J.

What seemed like an inevitability Wednesday night became a reality Saturday, as the Princeton women's swimming and diving team easily outdistanced the field to win yet another Ivy League championship — and did so in style.

Backed by Saturday night individual wins from Sabrina Johnston, Heidi Smithwick and Dakota Tucker (the first two in pool record times), Princeton finished off its wire-to-wire run through the Ivy League championships by taking the team championship with 1,403 points, well ahead of second-place Harvard's 1,317.5. Yale was third with 1,069 points.

The championship was Princeton's second straight and 25^th all-time, which is easily the most in league history. Tucker, who won three individual events, was named the Most Outstanding Swimmer, while Ellie Marquardt was named the Career High Point Swimmer.

Princeton began to build its lead by winning both of Wednesday's relays, and the Tigers kept their advantage around 100 points for the rest of the weekend.

Hayley Clark was Princeton's top finisher in the grueling 1,650 freestyle, in which she came in seventh in 16:35.25 in the evening's first event. Next up was the 200 backstroke, where Margaux McDonald, Liza Whitmire, Grace Blake and Isabell Korbly went 2-5-6-8 for the Tigers.

Johnston won the 100 freestyle in a pool-record and NCAA B qualifying time of 48.28, and teammate Ela Noble also bettered the B standard with a 49.10 that put her in third.

Tucker then won the 200 breaststroke in the next event, followed by teammate Eliza Brown in second. Both Princeton swimmer bettered the B standard.

Smithwick followed that with a pool record 1:54.62 in the 200 butterfly, and she and teammate Eleanor Sun, who finished second, both hit the B standard as well.

By this point, Princeton had pretty much salted away the team title, even after Harvard went 1-2-3 in the 3-meter diving, where Maddie Seltzer placed fifth as Princeton's highest finisher. All that was left was the coronation of the final event of the meet, the 400 free relay, which Johnston, Noble, Marquardt and Smithwick won by 2.5 seconds over Brown.

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