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Men's Swimming Update - 1
2012-13 Ivy League Men's Swimming Top 10 Performances (Through Dec. 18)
Photo courtesy of Princeton Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League men’s swimming and diving season has reached the semester break with several teams off to strong starts thus far this season.
Harvard, Princeton and Yale each have unbeaten records in head-to-head competition. The Tigers are 4-0, all of those coming in Ivy action thus far. Harvard is 3-0, all of those coming in League action, while Yale is 2-0 overall and 1-0 in Ivy action. Princeton's strong start moved it into the CollegeSwimming.com Division I national Top 25 this past week at No. 23.
The first CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Ranking was released on Nov. 15, with Princeton on top and Harvard at No. 4 in the poll on the men's side. The next set of CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Rankings will be released shortly as this week was the post-invite submission deadline.
Brown
The Bears (2-2, 0-2) opened the year with a weekend set at home
against Boston University and UMass back on November 9 and 10.
Brown topped Boston University, 162-138, in the opener, and topped
UMass, 172-126, the following day. They also hosted the Brown
Invite on Nov,. 30 and finished in fifth place. Tommy
Glenn recorded the fastest 200 freestyle time in the Ivy
thus far this year at the Brown Invite, logging an NCAA B-cut
time of 1:37.29. That time is 43rd-best in Division I thus far this
year. He also recorded the best 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly
times of the year in the same meet with marks of 47.49 and 1:46.46
respectively, both also making it as NCAA B-cut times. Both of
those times rank as the 25th-fastest in the nation thus far this
year. Brown returns to action on Jan. 24 when it visits
Bryant.
Columbia
The Lions (2-2, 1-2) split dual meets in each of their two
weekends thus far. Columbia opened with a split against Penn and
Yale on Nov 9 and 10, and then split a pair of duals a week later
against Harvard and Army. The Lions also finished fifth at the
Brown Invite before hitting the holiday break. Dominik
Koll has three Ivy Top 10 performances thus far this year
with the seventh-fastest times in both the 200 free and 500 free
and the ninth-fastest mark in the 1650. Columbia returns to action
on Jan. 5 when it hosts Bucknell.
Cornell
The Big Red closed out the first part of the season
with a win at the Ithaca College Invitational. Cornell (0-4, 0-4)
dropped four Ivy duals to open the season before the win at Ithaca.
Eric May has logged two Ivy Top 10 times thus far
this season (100 Breast, 200 IM). He won the 200 IM at the Ithaca
College Invitational with a time of 1:51.48, almost two seconds
ahead of the runner-up. Cornell returns to action on Jan. 7 when it
hosts Yale.
Dartmouth
The Big Green (2-2, 2-2) closed out the first part of the schedule
at the Brown Invite, taking second in the invitational and
splitting dual results against Brown and Princeton. Nejc
Zupan has the fastest 200 breaststroke in the league this
year, with an A-qualifying 1:53.87 that is also the third-fastest
time in the country this year. He also won the 400 IM and 100
breaststroke at the Invite, earning NCAA B times in both wins. His
400 IM time of 3:50.49 is the fastest in the Ivy and 24th in
Division I this year. Dartmouth returns to action on Jan. 12 when
it faces Yale and Penn in Philadelphia.
Harvard
The Crimson, ranked No. 4 in the first mid-major poll of the year,
are 3-0 in Ivy action with wins over Cornell, Dartmouth and
Columbia. Harvard closed out the first part of the season with a
strong showing at the UGA Fall Invite. Chuck Katis
eclipsed the NCAA-A standard in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke
and broke his own school records twice in the process. He also had
a B-standard mark in the 200 IM while in Athens. Katis' 100
breaststroke time of 52.49 is the fourth-fastest in Division I thus
far this season, as is his 200 time of 1:54.08. Chris
Satterthwaite also had a B-standard time in the 200
freestyle while at UGA. His 1:37.69 is the second-fastest in the
Ivy this year behind Brown's Tommy Glenn. Harvard returns to action
on Jan. 19 when it visits Brown.
Penn
The Quakers (2-2, 1-2) closed out the fall semester with a first
place finish at the Total Performance Invitational in Gambier,
Ohio. Freshman Chris Swanson has the fastest 500
freestyle time in the Ivy thus far by a full second. His mark of
4:27.47 was a meet and pool record at TPI. He also had the second
fastest 1000 and the fastest 1650, which was an NCAA B-standard
mark of 15:21.21. Penn's Kyle Yu also has
Top 5 Ivy times in the 100 and 200 breaststroke thus far this year
as has Rhoads Worster in the 100 and 200 back. The
Quakers return to action on Jan. 12 when it hosts Dartmouth and
Yale in a tri-meet.
Princeton
The Tigers (4-0, 4-0) are the top-ranked team in the mid-major
poll and this week burst into the CollegeSwimming.com national poll
at No. 23 after receiving votes a week earlier. Harrison
Wagner has an NCAA-B standard in both the 50 and 100 free
this year, while teammate Jeremy Wong has a
B-standard in the 100 and 200 free. The Tigers also have two that
have achieved the B-mark already this year in the 1650 with
Paul Nolle and Zachary Ridout.
Freshman En-Wei Hu-Van Wright has three
B-standard times already, He has the top time in the Ivy this year
in the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke (48.20 and 1:45.52,
respectively) and also a B-standard time of 1:48.54 in the 200 IM.
Princeton returns to action against Navy on Jan. 5 at DeNunzio
Pool.
Yale
The Bulldogs (2-0, 1-0) are off to a strong start, having won both
of their dual meets and the Bucknell Invitational this season.
Junior diver Tyler Pramer
had a successful outing at the Bucknell Invitational, winning the
1-meter and 3-meter diving finals. In their last outing, a 213-87
win at UMass on December 1, Yale's 200 IM relay team broke a pool
record. Sophomores Andrew Heymann, Alwin Firmansyah and Mike Lazris and Junior Pat Killian broke the record
with a time of 1:32.01. Heymann later broke the pool record
for the 100 breaststroke. Heymann has three marks in the Ivy Top 10
this season. Yale returns to action on Jan. 7 when it visits
Cornell.
