Top Performances Highlight Strong Start for Big Green vs. Brown and Princeton

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Top Performances Highlight Strong Start for Big Green vs. Brown and Princeton

11/10/2025 2:50:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

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By: Justin Lafleur

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team opened its 2025-26 season this weekend by hosting Brown and Princeton at the Karl Michael and Spaulding Pools. The Big Green fell to Princeton 228-72 and Brown 157-143, marking the closest they have been to Brown since 2010.

"Our men showed up really fighting for it," said Dartmouth head coach Milana Socha. "It was a clear full-team effort with folks trying to close every point possible. Three of our first-years posted program all-time top 10 performances, we had multiple lifetime best times and our men forced a team that beat us at Ivy Championships by over 350 points last year down to the final relay to determine which team would come out on top in a head to head dual… all in just the first official meet of the season."

One highlight came with Jacob Turner capturing an outright event win over Brown and Princeton, finishing the 400 IM with a time of 3:55.43, just ahead of the Tigers' Jiarui Xue in second (3:55.60).

The Big Green also picked up several event wins over Brown. McCoy Lyman was second to Princeton in the 3-meter dive (361.55 points), but ahead of all Bears' divers. Dartmouth's 200 medley relay (Andrew Chou, David Kushnirsky, William McClelland and Colton Rasmussen) beat the Bears with a time of 1:29.52, ahead of Brown's top time of 1:31.08.

Other event wins over Brown were Yan Dvoretskiy in the 200 freestyle (1:38.29), Andrew Chou in the 100 backstroke (48.21), Turner in the 200 butterfly (1:48.50), Turner in the 200 breaststroke (2:01.09) and Chou in the 100 butterfly (48.51).

There were a number of lifetime best times, including in the 200 medley relay: McClelland's 50 butterfly split (21.38), Turner's 50 butterfly split (21.74) and Jihoon Jung's 50 breaststroke split (25.56). Additionally, David Gal had a lifetime best in the 200 freestyle (1:39.42), McClelland in his 100 freestyle split as part of the 400 freestyle relay (44.11) and Gal in his 100 freestyle split as part of the 400 freestyle relay (45.10).

"We've got a lot of opportunity knocking at the door this season and I believe this men's team is ready to bring that door down," said Socha.

The Big Green also had a number of all-time top 10 program performances.

#3 on 3-meter dive - McCoy Lyman 361.55
#4 in the 100 backstroke - Andrew Chou 48.21
#5 in the 100 breaststroke - David Kushnirsky 55.63
#5 in the 200 backstroke - Andrew Chou 1:46.04
#8 in the 200 medley relay (Chou, Kushnirsky, McClelland, Rasmussen) 1:29.52
#9 in the 200 breastroke - Jihoon Jung 2:01.80
#10 in the 100 butterfly - Andrew Chou 48.51
#10 in the 400 freestyle relay (Rasmussen, Weigel, McClelland, Dvoretskiy) 2:59.32
#11 in the 100 breaststroke - Jihoon Jung 56.38 (he would have been #10 if not for Kushnirsky's swim in the same event)