Big Green Conclude Ivy Championship in Eighth

Saturday, February 27

Providence, R.I.

All Day

Dartmouth College

Day Three

Big Green Conclude Ivy Championship in Eighth

2/27/2016 8:40:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Dartmouth men's swimming and diving finished in eighth place at the 2016 Ivy League Championship with 491.5 points, concluding the event on Saturday evening. Princeton defended its title and finished first with 1520.5 points, knocking Harvard off after the Crimson led for the first two days.

On the 3-meter diving board, Brett Gillis completed his final Ivy League showing in seventh place (293.10) to earn 23 points towards the team's final total. On Thursday, Gillis had a fifth-place finish on 1-meter and ended the weekend with a total of 48 points. At the end of the championship, Gillis was named the Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver for accumulating 189 points throughout his four years. Keenhold, who presented the award to Gillis, was both a swimming and diving coach at Dartmouth for four decades who has numerous accolades as an All-American diver himself.

In the 1650-yard freestyle, Carter Jacobsen took 19th place (15:43.01), dropping almost 30 seconds from his seedtime and finishing just seven tenths of a second ahead of the next swimmer. Joby Bernstein was 25th (16:07.13). In the 100-yard freestyle, Aaron Athanas tied for 21st (44.97).

After placing third in the 100 back the night before, James Verhagen placed fourth in the 200-yard backstroke (1:43.57), earning an NCAA B cut and breaking his own school record from 2013 in the process. Tony Shen also swam the event and touched in 24th (1:49.96). In the C final of the 200-yard breaststroke, Delaney Hall came in 22nd place (2:02.90), touching a tenth of a second ahead of the swimmer in 23rd.

Four Dartmouth swimmers competed in the C final of the 200-yard butterfly, with David Harmon finishing highest for the Green in 17th (1:49.96), missing the school record by less than half a second. Logan Briggs came in 20th (1:50.90), Brandon Boval was 21st (1:51.46) and Robert Purvis took 22nd (1:51.71).

To wrap up the championship, Dartmouth finished in eighth place in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:00.98). Made up of Verhagen, Henry Patrick, Boval and Athanas, the Big Green touched a tenth of a second behind Brown in seventh.