The women’s swimming and diving team found historic success at this weekend’s annual double-dual meet with Harvard (6-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) and Yale (5-3, 4-2), sweeping all 16 events and securing victories of margins greater than 100 points over both schools. Princeton’s (5-0, 5-0) strong performance extended the team’s dual meet winning streak to 37 and will likely accord the Tigers strong consideration for a national ranking.
Senior Carolyn Littlefield led off for the Tigers, earning a first-place finish for Princeton in the three-meter dive to begin the team’s weekend sweep. The Tigers followed up Littlefield’s victory — which came by less than half a point — with a one-two finish in the 200-yard medley relay, led by Princeton’s A team of freshmen Andrea Kropp and Lisa Boyce, junior Meredith Monroe, and senior Megan Waters. The Tigers’ second quartet finished less than two seconds behind their teammates and more than a second ahead of the field.
In the 1000-yard freestyle, senior co-captain Ming Ong, freshman Maureen McCotter, and junior Aislinn Smalling then took home a one-two-three finish, while junior Jillian Altenburger defended her place as the reigning Ivy League champion in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 48.43 seconds. Kropp and Boyce matched the individual victories of their more experienced teammates, earning first-place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard breaststroke, respectively.
Both the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly became notable events, as Waters — the defending Ivy League champion in the 100-yard freestyle — set school records with times of 22.82 and 53.67 seconds, respectively. Kropp wrote a school record of her own in the 200-yard breaststroke, winning the event in 2:11.52.
One of the closest races of the weekend came in the 200-yard butterfly, where sophomore Carter Stephens fended off a late charge by Harvard’s Katie Mills to win the event by less than half a second.
Though not quite as dominating as the women, the men’s team defeated Yale 238-115 but fell to Harvard by a 189-164 margin. The split marked the first time since 2008 that Princeton (4-1 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) has failed to sweep the Bulldogs (1-5, 1-3) and the Crimson (9-0, 7-0) and the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet.
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