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2025 Princeton Big Al Invitational
December 4-6, 2025 DeNunzio Pool — Princeton, NJ 25 Yards (SCY) Participating Teams: Princeton (host), Columbia, Utah, Penn, & Cornell Results: “2025 Princeton Big Al Invitational” on MeetMobile Day 1 Results | Day 1 Recap Day 2 ResultsWomen’s Team Scores After Day 2:
University of Pennsylvania 1,054 Princeton 826.50 Columbia 455.50 Utah 83 Cornell 47Men’s Team Scores After Day 2:
Princeton 1,039.5 Columbia 794.50 University of Pennsylvania 653 Utah 57 Cornell 46Day 2 of the 2025 Princeton Big Al Invitational featured more dominance for the Penn women and Princeton men, with both carrying leads into day 3.
Women’s Recap
The Penn women picked up four more individual wins and broke two more school records on Friday. The first school record, though, wasn’t actually in a win. The day kicked off with the 200 medley relay, where the Princeton quartet of Delaney Herr (24.59), Heidi Smithwick (27.99), Savannah Skow (23.67), and Sophia Sunwoo (22.18) won in 1:38.43. That relay is a beacon for the Tigers’ future: it includes three freshman alongside the senior Smithwick.
Penn finished 2nd in a school record of 1:39.00 with the relay of Amy Qin, Kate Handley, Margaret Hu, and the emerging star, sophomore Kayla Fu, who anchored with a 22.31 split.
Another young relay, all four Penn swimmers are underclassmen. Last year, they were 6th at Ivies in this relay with a time of 1:39.96.
The other Penn record fell at the hands of Kate Levensten. She won the 100 back and became the first Penn swimmer under 53 seconds in spite of not swimming that leg on the Quakers’ 200 medley relay.
She first swam 52.77 in prelims, and followed that with a 52.87 in finals to win the event. The old record of 53.57 was set in 2018 by Quinn Scannell.
Levensten has caught fire in her junior season for Penn. She had never been under 54 before this season, and now has gone under 53 twice in the same meet (along with two 53-mids earlier in the season).
Other Penn wins included Kayla Fu posting a 53.12 in the 100 fly, about three tenths off her season-best from two weeks ago; NCAA qualifier Anna Moehn in the 200 free; and Kate Handley in the 100 breast in 1:02.16.
The Princeton women swept the day 2 relays, bookending their win in the 200 medley with one later in the 800 free relay in 7:13.46. That was a more veteran group, though freshman Chloe Kim led off in 1:49.79. She was followed by Sabrina Johnston (1:48.07), Eleanor Sun (1:47.06), and Smithwick (1:47.06), who had the fastest split of the field.
Kim also grabbed her first individual win of the meet in the 400 IM, touching in 4:09.81. She was on the shoulder of her teammate Eleanor Sun for most of the race, but a powerful 28.97 on the first 50 of the freestyle leg (29.83 for Sun) pulled her to the lead for good.
Princeton had four of the top five finishers in that event.
Utah’s Kathryn Grant and Callie Eaglestone finished 1-2 in the 1-meter diving event. The Utah women are attending the meet without their swim team.
Men’s Recap
The Princeton men continued to dominate their Ivy League foes on Friday. The three-time defending conference champions won four out of five (championship) swimming events on Day 1, and while they weren’t quite that good on Friday, they still won four of seven swimming events.
That included both relays. They kicked off with a 1:26.10 in the 200 medley, using a superior back-half that included a 20.43 fly split from Conor McKenna to win. McKenna was joined by Yanning Zhang (21.81 back), freshman Keian Lam (24.54 breast), and freshman Jake Tarara (19.32 free).
This relay was a weak point of Princeton’s title-run last season: they finished just 6th in this relay at the Ivy League Championships last year. McKenna’s fly split is already faster than the leg he’s replacing on that relay, so that’s a positive sign for this season.
In total, this is not Princeton’s best day of the championship schedule, but some freshmen reinforcements help shore up their results in the short stroke events. That includes newcomer Alex Townsend, who won the 100 fly in 46.84. That just pipped his teammate McKenna in 46.86.
On the other end of the spectrum is the team’s most recognizable name, Mitchell Schott, the defending Ivy League Champion in the 200 IM, 200 fly, and 200 free. He won the 200 free on Friday in 1:32.44, which is under the NCAA qualifying standard, though he’ll need to be faster at the Ivy League Championships to retain his title over Yale’s Noah Millard and earn another invite to NCAAs.
Even without using Schott, Princeton finished the day with a win in the 800 free relay in 6:29.85, winning by about two seconds over Penn. The Tigers were led by junior Arthur Balva, who split 1:35.67 on the second leg. Schott would have made about a six second difference in that time, had he raced.
The Penn men grabbed two wins, including an NCAA D1 time standard from Watson Nguyen in the 100 breaststroke (52.56). He becomes the Quakers’ #1 breaststroker after the graduation of US National Teamer Matt Fallon at the end of last season, and is the top returning finisher from last year’s Ivy League Championships.
Penn junior Peter Whittington won the 400 IM in 3:48.42, just edging out a hard-charging finish from Princeton’s Balva (3:48.66).
Columbia senior Isaac Beers won the 100 back in 46.65. That is his second best time in the event this season, after a 46.89 done in a dual meet with Princeton on November 14.
Princeton’s Luca Fassi won the men’s 3-meter diving event.
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