By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships
Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 28 Location: DeNunzio Pool, Princeton, NJ Defending Champions: Princeton men (1x) Live Results Live Video: ESPN+ Championship Central SwimSwam Fan Guide Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, YalePRE-SCRATCH PSYCH SHEET
The Princeton Tigers snapped Harvard’s eight-year-long winning streak at the Ivy League championships last year, and look a good bet to repeat as champions again in 2026. They won the Ivy League Dual Meet crown, going unbeaten across the season, and return more swimming points than any other school. combined with their elite divers and relays, top spot for them ahead of a battle between Yale and Harvard looks the most likely outcome of this year’s meet.
Yale got off to a great start on the first day of the Ivy League Championships in 2025, winning a close battle with Harvard in the 200 medley relay before just missing out to Princeton in the 800 free relay. They continued their hot streak with a trio of wins on day 2, as Noah Millard won the 500 free by over ten seconds and Nick Finch claimed the 50 free, before those two were joined by Lucius Brown and Deniel Nankov to win the 200 free relay in an Ivy League Record.
Princeton and Brown were the other two event winners, as Mitchell Schott took the 200 IM for the Tigers and Rowland Lawver won on the boards in the 1-meter. At the halfway point that meant that the battle at the top was not one between Harvard and Princeton, as Yale led them by 79 and 126 points respectively of 1:16.48.
The Bulldogs started off strong on day 3 with a win in the 1000 free thanks to Arshak Hambardzumyan, before Nick Finch took his second win of the meet in the 100 fly as he broke the meet record in 44.57. Brown’s Marton Nagy took the 400 IM win, and was followed up by Jack Kelly breaking the Ivy League Record to win the 100 breast in 50.60. Princeton’s Mitchell Schott outduelled Yale’s Noah Millard for the other individual event win on Day 3, before Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli won the 100 back so that half of the schools in the competition won an individual event on the penultimate night of the championships. Cornell then won the 400 IM in another close battle, out-touching Yale by just 0.04 seconds.
The team battle was on a knife’s edge with one day to go, with Princeton leading Harvard by a single point and Yale then ten points behind the Crimson. Yale took an early lead on the final night thanks to a 1-2 in the 1650 free from Noah Millard and Arshak Hambardzumyan, but Harvard went 2-3 in the 200 back to hit back, with Cornell’s Ubertalli winning their third title of the meet. Princeton’s Patrick Dinu took the 100 free win, ahead of a Yale 2-3. Matt Fallon won his fourth Ivy League title in the 200 breast, with Penn putting three swimmers into the top five, but by this point Princeton had established a lead they would never relinquish. In a battle which was indicative of the meet, Princeton’s Schott edged out David Schmitt in the 200 fly, the final individual event, as the Tigers went 1-4-7 to Harvard’s 2-5-8. Princeton took three of the top four spots in the 3-meter diving, including champion Aidan Wang, before Yale broke the Ivy League Record in the 400 free relay.
Team Swim Relay Dive Brown 596.5 246 85 Columbia 580.5 200 74 Cornell 598.5 276 38 Dartmouth 217 232 122 Harvard 886.5 274 102 Penn 434.5 232 35 Princeton 948 218 164 Yale 806.5 304 102All of Princeton’s stars return this year, with Mitchell Schott (96 points), Patrick Dinu (86 points) and Arthur Balva (80 points) leading the way. They have lost Tyler Hong to graduation, who was a three-time ‘A’ finalist with 77 points last year, and will also miss sprinter Brett Feyerick (56 points) and diver George Callanan, who placed 4th in both diving events to score 52 points. However, with a strong recruiting class including highly seeded Alex Townsend and Jiarue Xue filling in some gaps, the Tigers look nailed on to match their women’s team and repeat as Ivy League Champions. Princeton have also added a pair of elite divers in Chase Sorosky and Luka Martinovic, who placed 2nd and 3rd at the H-Y-P meet on the 1-meter and 10th and 1st on the 3-meter. Aidan Wang, defending 3-meter champion and 60-point scorer in 2025, returns on the boards as well as Princeton look like scoring the most points of anyone in both of swimming and diving.
Yale return almost all of their individual scorers from last year, and have two of the biggest stars in the conference in Nick Finch (92 points) and Noah Millard (91 points). Both took a pair of event wins last season, Finch winning the 50 free and 100 fly while Millard won the 500 free and 1650 free, and are seeded in the top two for all three of their event entries this year. Deniel Nankov (71.5 points) was another big scorer last year who was also a key relay piece, with the Bulldogs holding three top-seeded relays after winning three of the five on offer last year. All of their scoring divers return, as do all bar one of their ‘A’ finalists and every single relay leg. Continuity is the name of the game for Yale, and they should reap the rewards of that by leapfrogging Harvard this year.
The Crimson lost some key performers in Anthony Rincon (70 points), Ben Littlejohn (54 points), Aayush Deshpande (59 points), Harris Durham (43 points), and diver Adam Wesson (52 points) but added a distance free star in Will Mulgrew. Raphael Tourette may step up on the boards after a pair of ‘B’ final finishes last year, but they may struggle to crack 100 points on the boards again in 2026. Their medley relays take a bit of a hit with the graduation of Rincon on the backstroke leg, and they don’t have seem to have a title favorite in any event this year. Adriano Arioti (70 points), David Schmitt (80 points) and Marre Gattnar (73 points) are their top returners and will be called upon again if Harvard are to retain second place.
Penn and Brown both lose their elite breaststrokers, as Matt Fallon (83 points) and Jack Kelly (85 points) graduated last summer. They leave with an Ivy League record apiece in the breaststroke events, Fallon in the 200 and Kelly in the 100 from the championships last year. Brown may struggle to match their 4th-place finish from last year, despite freshman Marton Nagy (80 points) being a force in the IM events, and the Bears are seeded down in 6th on the swimming psych sheets. The Penn men, like their women’s team, have been in great form this season and are seeded for 4th, although their lack of diving points may cost them. Cornell were a close 5th last year but graduated over half of their relay legs, including three-quarters of their title-winning 400 medley relay. They will need Pietro Ubertalli (91 points), and perhaps his younger brother Zeno, to be on-form in the backstroke events if they want to defend their 5th-place finish from last season.
Event Schedule
Wednesday
200 medley relay 800 free relayThursday
500 free 200 IM 50 free 1-meter diving 200 free relayFriday
1000 free 100 fly 400 IM 200 free 100 breast 100 back 3-meter diving 400 medley relaySaturday
1650 free 200 back 100 free 200 breast 200 fly 3-meter diving 400 free relay2025 Final Standings
Princeton: 1330 Harvard: 1262.5 Yale: 1212.5 Brown: 927.5 Cornell: 912.5 Columbia: 854.5 Penn: 701.5 Dartmouth: 571Brown: Marton Nagy (S0-IM/Breast), Rory O’Connor(Fr-Free), Jake Regenwetter (Sr-Breast/IM), Christian Duetoft (So-Free)
Marton Nagy was the 400 IM champion last year and returns as the top seed this year, and adds the #2 seed in the 200 IM and #9 seed in the 200 breast. After scoring 80 points at the meet in his freshman season, albeit swimming the 200 back instead of the 200 breast, he is seeded for a similar return in his sophomore year. Rory O’Connor is the #4 seed in both the 500 free and the mile, but has not raced since November and may be a question mark for the meet. Regenwetter is seeded for a trio of ‘B’ finals with seeds of 13th in the 100 breast, 12th in the 200 IM, and 11th in the 200 breast. Duetoft scored 62 points last year in the distance free events and is seeded 9th in the 500 free and 10th in the mile.
Columbia: Isaac Beers (Sr-Back), Zion James (Sr-Free), Joshua Corn (Jr-Breast)
Beers is the top seed in the 100 back and the #4 seed in the 200 back, after only making it into the ‘B’ final in each event last year. He placed 4th in both events in 2024 and will be aiming for a repeat trip to the ‘A’ finals. James is the 5th seed in the 50 free and 6th seed in the 100 free, and was just off the podium in 4th in both events last year. He has neared his lifetime bests already this season and will be one to watch in some loaded sprint free races. Corn is the fastest returner in the 200 breast after placing 3rd behind Matt Fallon and Jack Kelly last year, but is only 6th on the psych sheets this year as well as 9th in the 100 breast.
Cornell: Pietro Ubertalli (Sr-Back), Haihan Xu (Jr-Breast), Gabe Anagnoson (Fr-Back/IM), Blake Conway (Jr-Back)
Ubertalli swept the backstroke events last year, including matching Dean Farris’ 200 back Ivy League record, but is only seeded 5th and 3rd in the 100 back and 200 back respectively this season. He swam the 200 IM as his third event last season but has only been 1:48.68 this year, ranking 20th. His younger brother Zeno will also be swimming the backstroke events this year in his freshman season. Blake Conway is seeded one spot ahead of Pietro in the 100 back, ranking 4th, and is also 9th in the 200 back. He placed 5th and 8th in those events last year, and will be gunning for his third ‘A’ final sweep in a row. Anagnoson is the third Big Red swimmer seeded in the top-eight of the 100 back, ranking 7th in 47.27, and is 11th in the 200 back and 16th in the 200 IM. Xu is ranked 3rd in the 100 breast and 6th in the 200 breast, a big step up from last year where he placed 20th and 10th in those two events.
Dartmouth: Jacob Turner (So-Fly/IM), Andrew Chou(Fr-Fly/Back), Will McLelland (Jr-Free/Fly), Jagger Stachtiaris, Everett Tai (Sr-Diving)
Turner is Dartmouth’s star, and comes in ranked 4th in the 200 fly, 3rd in the 200 IM and 2nd in the 400 IM. He was 5th in the 400 IM last year but that was his only ‘A’ final appearance as a freshman. Chou is seeded 9th in the 100 fly, 3rd in the 100 back and 5th in the 200 back. McLelland is 7th in the 50 free, 11th in the 100 fly, and 20th in the 100 free, after scoring in only the 100 fly last year. Stachtiaris ranks 8th in the 100 fly, 19th in the 200 fly, and 15th in the 200 IM. Tai placed 8th on the 3-meter and 11th on the 1-meter last year and has been in good form so far this season.
Harvard: Sonny Wang (Jr-Free/Fly), Adriano Arioti (So-Back/Fly/IM), Maro Miknic (Fr-Free/Fly), Will Mulgrew (Fr-Free), David Schmitt (Jr-Fly/Back), Joshua Chen (So-Breast)
Schmitt is the top returning scorer for the Crimson, and is ranked highly in both the 100 fly (5th) and 200 fly (2nd). He is further down the psych sheets in his third event, the 100 back, where he is just 21st so far this year after he placed 3rd at the meet last year. Arioti ranks second in both backstroke events, seventh in the 200 IM and 11th in the 200 fly, and was an ‘A’ finalist in both the 200 back and 200 fly last year. Miknic ranks 3rd in the 50 free, 12th in the 100 free, and 2nd in the 100 fly in the Croatian’s freshman season. Mulgrew was an elite recruit for Harvard in the summer and has repaid the faith by leading the psych sheets in the 500 free, 1000 free, and ranks 3rd in the mile. He beat out Noah Millard and Santi Gutierrez, his competition in the distance free events, at the recent H-Y-P meet and is not far off the school records in both the 500 free and 1000 free. Wang was the Ivy League Champion in the 50 free in 2024, and placed 2nd in both the 50 free and 100 fly last year. This season he sits 2nd in the 50 free, 5th in the 100 free, and 3rd in the 100 fly. Chen ranks 8th in the 100 breast and 5th in the 200 breast.
Penn: Peter Whittington (Jr-IM/Breast), Eddie Jin (So-Free/Back), Watson Nguyen (So-Breast), James Curreri (Sr-Free/Back)
Whittington is the top seed in the 200 breast in 1:53.72, just off the 1:53.09 which placed him 4th last year, but two of the three men who finished ahead of him have now graduated. He also ranks 8th on the 200 IM and 3rd on the 400 IM, having placed 7th and 2nd last year. Nguyen is ranked just behind Whittington in the 200 breast and is also seeded 2nd on the 100 breast, and was 5th and 3rd respectively in 2025. Jin is ranked 9th in the 100 free, 6th in the 200 free, and 14th in the 100 back, in what will be his first Ivy League Championships. Curreri is seeded 6th in the 200 back, 16th in the 200 back, and 12th in the 500 free. He placed 6th in the 1000 free and 10th in the mile last year, but has not swum either event this season.
Princeton: Mitchell Schott (Sr-Free/Fly/IM), Patrick Dinu (So-Free), Parker Lenoce (Jr-Back/Free), Arthur Balva (Jr-Fly/Free/IM), Jiarui Xue(Fr-Free/IM), Logan Noguchi (So-Free/Fly/Back), Alex Townsend (Fr-Fly/IM), Sanitiago Gutierrez (So-Free), Aidan Wang (Jr-Diving)
Mitchell Schott is coming off a great summer in long course, and is the top seed in the 200 free, 200 fly and 200 IM. He won all three of those events last year, including setting an Ivy League record in the 200 fly. Patrick Dinu has been phenomenal in sprint freestyle for the Tigers and ranks 1st in the 100 free, 3rd in the 200 free, and 4th in the 50 free. Noguchi has been a force in the 50 free as well, where he is ranked 6th, and is ranked 4th in the 100 fly and 9th in the 100 back. Balva was the runner up in the 500 free last year, and ranks 3rd in that event so far this season. He is also 3rd in the 200 fly and 4th in the 400 IM. Xue comes in 7th in the 500 free, 8th in the mile, and 6th in the 400 IM in his freshman season, and is also ranked highly in the 1000 free. Lenoce leads the Ivy League on the 200 back this year, and also ranks 6th in the 100 back and 4th in the 200 free, where Princeton have three of the top four seeds. Townsend is seeded 6th in the 100 fly, 9th in the 200 fly, and 5th in the 200 IM. Gutierrez is the top seed in the mile ahead of Ivy League record holder Noah Millard, and also ranks 2nd in the 1000 free and 5th in the 500 free. Wang placed 1st on the 3-meter and 2nd on the 1-meter last year, and should be in the title hunt again in his junior year.
Yale: Nick Finch (So-Fly/Free), Noah Millard (Sr-Free), Jake Wang (So-Free/Breast/IM), Charlie Egeland(Jr-Breast/IM), Arshak Hambardzumyan (So-Free), Jiawen Li (FR-IM/Fly)
Nick Finch is the top seed in both the 50 free and 100 fly, one year on from winning those two events as a freshman. He also ranks 2nd in the 100 free, and will be aiming to reset his own Ivy League record in the 100 fly. Noah Millard comes in as the second seed in the 200 free, 500 free and the 1650 free, but won the latter two last year and is the Ivy League record holder in both. Hambardzumyan is the defending champion in the 1000 free and between those three Yale will hope to sweep all six freestyle events. He also ranks 7th in the 500 free and 5th in the mile, having placed 4th and 2nd in those events last year. Wang is the 7th seed in the 100 free, 4th seed in the 100 breast and 4th seed in the 200 IM. He made three ‘B’ finals last year and will be aiming to convert those into top-eight finishes in 2026. Egeland is the top swimmer in the 100 breast this season and #3 in the 200 breast, as well as 17th in the 200 IM. Li is 9th in the 200 IM and 6th in the 400 IM, and ranks 12th in the 200 fly.
SHOWDOWNS
200 Free Relay
Pretty much all of the relays were nail-biting in 2025, and while this year should be more of the same the 200 free relay stands out. There are 14 men in the Ivy League who have broken 20 seconds on the 50 free this season, with five of those coming from Princeton and four from Harvard.
Four teams went under the meet record of 1:17.55 last season, although Princeton were then DQed. Yale were champions in 1:16.48, and are one of only two teams to return all four legs, but only have one swimmer who has broken 20 seconds this year. They do still lead the conference with the 1:17.43 they swam at midseason, but Harvard took the win at H-Y-P in 1:17.58. A battle like last year, where those two teams were never separated by more than 0.06 seconds, seems likely,
100 Back
The top five are separated by just 0.07 seconds in the 100 back, with Columbia’s Isaac Beers leading the way in 46.64. All five of those swimmers are within half a second of the automatic qualifying time of 46.32 for NCAAs.
Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli was last year’s winner, but hasn’t looked in quite the same form this year. If he is back in the 45-low range he should win – if he’s not this could be the toughest race to call in the whole meet.
1650 Free
Santiago Gutierrez (Princeton), Noah Millard (Yale) and Will Mulgrew (Harvard) will make the three-way fight in the mile an important one in the team race. Millard is the Ivy League Record holder with his 14:28.43 from NCAAs last year, but Gutierrez has been 14:45.61 to lead the conference this season.
Mulgrew is yet to beat his high school best in his freshman season, but set a pair of big best times in the 500 (4:14.25) and 1000 (8:48.72) at H-Y-P as he comfortably beat his two rivals. Whoever wants to win this race will have their work cut out.
200 Fly
Mitchell Schott and David Schmitt had a battle for the ages last year, as Schmitt set the Ivy League record in prelims with a 1:40.87 before Schott claimed it back by inches with a 1:40.42 in the final, winning by a tenth of a second.
They are the top two on the psych sheets again this year, although Schott’s 1:41.36 puts him nearly two seconds ahead of Schmitt’s 1:43.11. Princeton’s Arthur Balva could be a gatecrasher with his best of 1:41.99, but all eyes will be on the front two.
SwimSwam Picks
Princeton Yale Harvard Penn Brown Cornell Dartmouth ColumbiaPrinceton were the strongest team last year and only look stronger in 2026, with a trio of elite divers and the strongest and deepest squad in the pool. With the majority of their relay legs returning too, it looks an unwise choice to bet against the Tigers. Yale were elite in the pool last year and are set to repeat the trick, with Nick Finch and Noah Millard likely for a 90+ point return apiece, and they have a chance of sweeping all five relays. If their divers can match Harvard again, the Bulldogs should move up to take 2nd.
The Crimson look a little like a squad in transition, but should finish no worse than 3rd and will battle Yale for 2nd place right to the end. Will Mulgrew had some great swims at the H-Y-P meet at the end of January, but their sprinters have been a little off so far this year and the knock-on effect for the relays could see them leave considerable points in the pool. They should have enough to stay ahead of Brown and Cornell, with the Big Red losing a lot of their scorers from last year and 11 of their 20 relay legs. It will be tough to match their 5th-place finish from last year, even though their star Pietro Ubertalli has some room to move up on backstroke.
Penn may be the surprise team to move up into 4th, after a strong season so far leaves them in 4th on the psych sheets. However, their lack of diving points could haunt them with. Columbia and Dartmouth are only seeded for around 50 fewer points in the pool than Brown and Cornell and have strong diving squads, but may struggle to hold seed.
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