Dartmouth Places Seventh at Ivy League Championship

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Mia Leko in action at the Ivy League Championship

Sophomore Mia Leko

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Dartmouth Places Seventh at Ivy League Championship

2/22/2020 8:53:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Charlotte Brackett

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Dartmouth women's swimming and diving concluded the 2020 Ivy League Championship on Saturday in seventh place with 598 points, finishing ahead of Cornell (543). Princeton came out on top with 1,569 points.

In the 1650 free, Christina Cianciolo placed 18th (17:04.62), leaving a five-second gap between her and the Cornell swimmer in 19th. Susannah Laster finished highest for Dartmouth in the 200 back in 11th (1:58.68), while Connie Zhang (2:04.50) and Kaia Reznicek (2:05.14) swam in the C final.

The Big Green picked up 44 points in the 100 free. Sophie Smith was 11th (50.32), Ashley Post took 13th (50.40), Zoe Wortzman came 17th (50.57) and Katherine Cane placed 24th (51.78). Smith was a tenth of a second off the program record.

In the 200 breast, Maggie Deppe-Walker placed 14th (2:18.69) and Megan Tao was 20th (2:18.95), both ending up in scoring position. Mia Leko was third in the 200 fly (1:58.70), just missing out on her own record from last year in prelims (1:57.92). Siera Daly (2:01.39) and Alie Hunter (2:04.85) also swam the event.

Dartmouth ended the weekend on a high note, finishing fourth in the 400 free relay (3:20.15) and breaking the school record from 2013 by almost a second. Made up of Post, Wortzman, Leko and Smith, the Green out-touched Brown by almost a second and a half.