Men's Swimming & Diving Takes 8th at Ivy League Championship

Saturday, February 28

Princeton, N.J.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Day Three

Men's Swimming & Diving Takes 8th at Ivy League Championship

2/28/2015 8:28:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team wrapped up the final day of the 2015 Ivy League Championship on Saturday evening in eighth place with 468 points. Princeton successfully defended its title from last year, finishing in first with 1,519 points.

In the 1,650-yard freestyle, freshman Bruno Korbar was 18th in 15:36.43 and was followed by classmate Zack Browne in 24th place with a time of 15:57.57 and sophomore Joby Bernstein in 26th with a 16:11.56.

Junior James Verhagen's time of 1:43.84 in the 200-yard backstroke prelims broke his own Dartmouth record of 1:44.23 from 2013. At finals, he swam a 1:44.18 to take sixth. Freshman Henry Senkfor also swam the event, taking 24th in 1:50.84. In the 100-yard freestyle, junior Aaron Athanas placed 15th in 44.66.

In the 200-yard breaststroke, senior Jay Schulte placed 14th with a 2:00.09. Fellow senior Konrad Von Moltke and sophomore Timo Vaimann touched two-tenths of a second apart to take 22nd and 23rd with times of 2:04.09 and 2:04.26, respectively.

Sophomore David Harmon was 19th in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:48.83, dropping a second and a half from prelims. Classmate Tate Ramsden and Browne took 23rd and 24th with times of 1:52.26 and 1:52.98.

On the 3-meter diving board, junior Brett Gillis finished highest for Dartmouth in fourth with a score of 318.10. Sophomore Taylor Clough took ninth with a 324.30 and senior Ryan Shelley was 12th with a 302.50. Both Gillis and Clough got NCAA A cuts.

To end the weekend, the Big Green finished in seventh place in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 2:58.68. Made up of junior Daniel Whitcomb, Athanas, freshman Misha Tovmashenko and senior Ian Woon, the relay touched a second and a half ahead of Brown.

1. Princeton     1,519
2. Harvard       1,285.5
3. Yale             1,162.5
4. Penn            1,042.5
5. Columbia 950.5
6. Cornell 692
7. Brown 634
8. Dartmouth 468