Day 2 Finals Live Recap

2026 Ivy League Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 18–Saturday, February 21
• Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions: Princeton women (3x)
• Teams: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet

Scores After Day 1

1. Harvard – 118
2. Princeton – 112
3. Brown – 110
4. Yale/Penn – 104
5. –
6. Cornell – 98
7. Dartmouth – 94
8. Columbia – 88

The Harvard Crimson have the advantage after Day 1’s 200 medley and 800 free relays, but there could be a lot of jockeying for position tonight as we gear up for the first individual event finals.

Penn’s Anna Moehn, last year’s runner-up in the 500, leads the morning qualifiers into the final with her time of 4:42.96. Crystal Yuen of Brown qualified second with a new program record (4:43.01). Defending champion Alexandra Bastone from Harvard and her teammate Carolina Daher, who had the League’s fastest time coming into the meet, qualified 3rd (4:43.07) and 4th (4:43.40).

Defending champion Eleanor Sun of Princeton is the one to beat in the 200 IM. She qualified first with 1:57.67, and will have Yale’s Jessey Li (1:58.83) and Princeton’s Sophie Segerson (1:59.41) the only other sub-2:00s from the morning heats on either side of her tonight.

Two-time defending champion Sabrina Johnston of Princeton led the qualifiers in the 50 free with 22.29, improving on her seed time but coming up just short of her PB (22.07). Harvard’s Anya Mostek clocked a PB and lowered her own program record, qualifying 2nd with 22.35. On the other side of Johnston will be her teammate Sophia Sunwoo, whose prelims swim of 22.43 was the 3rd-fastest.

Harvard’s Nina Janmyr, the defending champion in 1-meter diving, put up a big dive in round 6 of prelims to take the top spot going into tonight’s final, a mere .60 points ahead of Princeton’s Charlotte Norman.

Women’s 500 Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 4:33.24, Lia Thomas (Penn) – 2022
• Ivy League Meet Record: 4:36.37, Ellie Marquardt (Princeton) – 2020
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 4:43.70
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 4:39.47

Podium:

1. Alexandra Bastone (Harvard), 4:40.94
2. Anna Moehn (Penn), 4:42.76
3. Sydney Bergstrom (Penn), 4:42.92
4. Natalie Garre (Brown), 4:43.26
5. Savannah Skow (Princeton), 4:43.39
6. Caroline Riggs (Yale), 4:46.15
7. Carolina Daher (Harvard), 4:46.42
8. Crystal Yuen (Brown), 4:47.33

Defending champion Alexandra Bastone earned her second consecutive Ivy League title in the 500 free, leading from start to finish to touch in 4:40.94. From the 150 wall onward, it was a two-way battle between Bastone and Penn’s Anna Moehn, last year’s runner-up. Bastone and Moehn traded stroke for stroke until Bastone broke away with 100 yards left. She outsplit Moehn by 1.2 over that distance and got the win by 1.8 seconds, 4:40.94 to 4:42.76.

Princeton’s Savannah Skow moved from 5th at the 150, to 4th at the 200, to 3rd at the 250. She held her position from out in lane 7 until the 450 wall, when Penn’s Sydney Bergstrom made her move. Bergstrom nearly caught her teammate, Moehn, but fell just short with a 4:42.92 for third place.

Brown’s Natalie Garre came from behind to touch out Skow over the last 25 yards to get 4th place with 4:43.26.

Women’s 200 Individual Medley – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 1:54.72, Katie Meili (Columbia) – 2013
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:55.09, Katie Meili (Columbia) – 2013
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 1:57.88
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:56.69

Podium:

Women’s 50 Freestyle – Finals

• Ivy League Record: 21.83, Bella Hindley (Yale) – 2019
• Ivy League Meet Record: 21.83, Bella Hindley (Yale) – 2019
• 2026 NCAA Cut: 22.28
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 22.01

Podium:

Women’s 1-Meter Diving – Finals

• Ivy League Meet Record: 314.20, Mikaela Thompson (Harvard) – 2016

Podium:

Women’s 200 Freestyle Relay – Timed Final

• Ivy League Record: 1:28.22, Princeton (Johnston, Noble, Rossouw, Smithwick) – 2025
• Ivy League Meet Record: 1:28.22, Princeton (Johnston, Noble, Rossouw, Smithwick) – 2025

Podium:

Scores After Day 2