Two Dartmouth Records Go Down on Day One of Ivy Champs

Thursday, February 18

Princeton, N.J.

All Day

Dartmouth College

Day One

Dartmouth Falls to Harvard and Cornell in Home Meet

Two Dartmouth Records Go Down on Day One of Ivy Champs

2/18/2016 9:50:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. – Dartmouth women's swimming and diving opened the 2016 Ivy League Championship on Thursday by breaking school records in the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 500-yard freestyle. After one day of action at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool, the Big Green are in seventh place with 161 points.

Dartmouth opened the meet by placing sixth in the 200 free relay (1:32.34), breaking the school record from 2013 by just over a tenth of a second. Made up of Kendese Nangle, Megan Crook, Maddie Dunn and Charlotte Kamai, the Green finished almost a second ahead of Penn in seventh.

AnnClaire MacArt took down a three-year-old record in the 500 free twice throughout the day, swimming a 4:49.37 at prelims and improving to a 4:49.03 that night to finish in seventh place. Hayley Winter also competed at finals, touching in 24th (4:58.31).

In the 200-yard IM, Taylor Yamahata finished in 22nd place (2:04.53) and Amber Zimmerman came in 24th (2:06.03). Nangle swam in the B final of the 50-yard freestyle and placed ninth (23.12), while Dunn was in the C final and took 21st (23.66). On the 1-meter diving board, Allison Green placed 12th (252.45) to earn 15 points towards the team's total.

To wrap up the first day of competition, the Green were seventh in the 400-yard medley relay (3:46.72). Composed of Nangle, Crook, Emily Holt and Kamai, Dartmouth out-touched Cornell in eighth by more than a second.

Day two will commence with the 400-yard IM.