Men swimming, diving, records in the best Ivy championship -finish have been down since 2022

Last weekend, swimming and diving by men ended his season with a fourth place in the IVY League championships of the first top 4 finish of the team since 2022. Bruno fell throughout the meeting with 11 programs with 11 programs and dominated in the 1-meter diving, 100-meter prank and 400-meter medley.

During the four-day competition, the bears achieved 927.5 points no more than fifth place in Cornell 912.5.

Despite fourth place, Bruno started fifth place. On Wednesday, the first day of the competition, the bears scored two fifth place in the 200-meter medley and 800-meter-freestyle-relay-one performance, which had to improve if they hoped to survive Cornell.

On Thursday, Christian Duetoft '28 Brunos scored the first individual points with a fifth place in 500-meter freestyle. His team -mate Matt Williamson '27 swam a faster time of 4: 18.75 in the consolation finale for the same event and set up a new program record.

In the 200-meter IM, Marton Nagy '28 defeated another program record that ended in 1: 42.69. His efforts brought him a second place and 28 points for Bruno.

“Marton's first Ivy Championship meeting has exceeded the very high expectations,” wrote head coach Kevin Norman. “Sometimes this first championship meeting for a newcomer can be a little intimidating, but Marton was completely unimpressed and hugged the moment.”

In the other pool, Rowland Lawver '26 Brown's first athlete, who ever won the 1-meter dive in the Ivy Championships. His score of 370.30 was the ninth highest in the history of the Ivy League for the event.

The bears really came out of hibernation on Friday evening. Williamson opened the night swimming 8: 56.13 in the 1000-meter freestyle and received his second program record of the meeting.

But the night was dominated by Nagy-with a time of 3: 24.64 the 400-meter-in-in-IM, and Jack Kelly '25, who stunned the competition in the 100-meter breast swimming.

Kelly swimmed a 50.60, won the event for the second time in a row and broke the program, the pool and the Ivy League record. Time also qualified for the NCAA Division I championships that are to take place at the end of this month.

“The whole hard work from the entire season paid off with time waste at Ivies, has all these hours in the pool and the gym,” wrote Kelly to the Herald. “It's a worthwhile feeling.”

Bruno ended the third day with another program record die in the 400-meter medley relay, Swam from Nagy, Kelly, Tucker Peterson '26 and Marcus Lee '25.

On Saturday-the fourth and last day of the meetings-managed Williamson in the 1650 meter freestyle a sixth place, while Lee took eighth place in 100-meter freestyle.

Nagy set up another program record that swims a ninth place 1: 42.69 in the 200-back back. And Kelly's second-placed place in 200-meter breast swimming qualified for another NCAA championship event.

At the NCAA championships, Kelly hopes to “represent Brown on the largest stage of College Swimming,” he wrote. “Whether that does a final or just gives everything, I want to make sure that I leave everything in the pool and my team make proud.”

After Bruno had ended this year's Ivy Championships with three titles, a new Ivy record and a series of broken program records, she can look excited about her future.

“When the lights are brighter and the moment is great, like (at) Ivy championships, this really increases the strengths and weaknesses of their team,” Norman wrote in a message to the Herald. He also trained the team until fourth place in 2022 and received the Ivy League Coach of the Year Award.

“I think our performance at Ivy Championships (this year) was a tour of the leadership that we have in our team, and the self -confident way of thinking with which we approached the meeting,” he added. “We will obviously have big shoes to graduate in the senior class … But we have a lot of young talent on our squad and an exciting class that comes in.”

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Dennis Carey

Dennis Carey is a sports editor who likes to play volleyball, plays vinyl plates in his free time and plays the guitar badly.