Complete Results
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's and women's swimming and diving teams will enter the upcoming Eastern championships on a high after both teams earned Senior Day dual meet victories over Brown on Saturday afternoon at Teagle Pool. The men earned a 166-134 victory, while the women capped off its best dual meet season in a decade with a 160-135 win. The men finished with a 7-2 dual meet season (5-2 Ivy), while the women finished 3-6 (2-5 Ivy), tripling last season's win total.
Mike Sheppard (1-meter) and Jonathan ZOllo (3-meter) swept the diving competition for the men. The 200 medley relay team of Jake Sangren, Michael Cai, James Keady and Sasha Dobrolioubov got the swimming portion of the meet off to a good start with a strong 1:32.76 swim for first place, just .03 ahead of the Bears' top team.
Chris Keady won the 200 free (1:42.78) and the 200 back (1:52.70) and Cai won the 100 breast (56.12) and the 200 breast (2:03.81) as multiple individual race winners. Additionally, Jake Sangren (100 back, 50.99), Dean Holcomb (200 butterfly, 1:53.01), Steven Kwartler (50 free, 21.28) and Kevin Brazitis (100 free, 47.06) all won an event for the balanced Big Red.
THe women won their third dual meet of the season with a big afternoon from diver Alicia Butters, who won both the 1-meter (222.66) and 3-meter (242.62) competitions, and Emily Dean, who captured both backstroke events and was part of the pool record-setting 200 medley relay squad.
The 200 medley relay opened swimming with a pool record swim of 1:46.97 behind the strong efforts of Dean, Jessie Holley, Chiara Spinazzola and Allison Guba. That topped the previous mark of 1:46.99 set last February. Three other swimmers each took home one event win, as Kimber Summers (1000 free, 10:33.05), Laura Acchione (200 fly, 2:07.44) and Chiara Spinazzola (100 fly, 56.81) all touched the wall first in their respective swims.