PHILADELPHIA – After a two-week hiatus, the University of Pennsylvania women's swimming and diving team returns to the pool for the Ivy League Championships in Princeton, N.J. at DeNunzio Pool. The postseason meet kicks off Wednesday and runs all the way through Saturday evening.
 
The Quakers' road to what they hope will be their first Ivy League team title in program history will begin on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. for two relay events. Each preliminary session will start at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with each finals session scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
 
All seven sessions will be streamed live on ESPN+ (subscription required) with live results provided by Princeton.
 
2023 Ivy League Women's Swimming & Diving Championship
Feb. 15-18, 2023 | DeNunzio Pool | Princeton, N.J.
Championship Central | Live Results | Tickets
Watch:  Day One
             Day Two Prelims | Day Two Finals
             Day Three Prelims | Day Three Finals
             Day Four Prelims | Day Four Finals
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn went 5-5 in dual meets on the season with a 2-5 record in Ivy League duals. The Quakers were 3-2 inside Sheerr Pool and 0-3 away from home with a 2-0 record in neutral site meets.
 
*In a similar setup to Ivies, Penn swam to a third-place finish at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio back in early December.
 
*During that meet, sophomore Izzy Pytel broke the Quakers' only school record of the season so far, a 2:13.98 in the 200-yard breaststroke. She snapped teammate Anna Boeckman's mark of 2:14.75 set in 2022.
 
*The Quakers return an individual Ivy champion in Catherine Buroker, who has won a total of four Ivy titles in two events in two seasons. Buroker claimed both the 1,000 and 1,650-yard freestyle crown back in 2019 and followed that up with a victorious performance in the same two events in 2022.
 
*Aside from Buroker, Margot Kaczorowski and Camryn Carter also claimed Ivy titles as part of the 400-yard freestyle relay last season, where they swam a time of 3:17.80 to finish first.
 
*Penn won a total of six Ivy titles last season—three for Lia Thomas, two for Buroker and the relay—to finish in third place out of eight teams.
 
*Senior Anna Kalandadze is going to be a name to watch out for the Quakers in the distance races, the biggest threat to Buroker's reign at the top. She heads into the meet with the seventh-fastest time in the nation in the 1,000-yard freestyle (9:40.31) and the ninth-fastest time in the nation for the mile (16:07.95), both top marks in the Ivy League this year.
 
Schedule
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Finals (6 p.m.) | ESPN+
1            200-yard medley relay (timed final)
2            800-yard freestyle relay (timed final)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Prelims (11 a.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet
3            500-yard freestyle
4            200-yard individual medley
5            50-yard freestyle
6            1-meter diving prelims (1:30pm)
6            1-meter diving consolation finals

Finals (6 p.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet 
3            500-yard freestyle
4            200-yard individual medley
5            50-yard freestyle
6            1-meter diving finals
7            200-yard freestyle relay (timed final)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Prelims (11 a.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet 
8            400-yard individual medley
9            100-yard butterfly
10           200-yard freestyle
11           100-yard breaststroke
12           100-yard backstroke
19           3-meter diving prelims (1:30pm)

Finals (6 p.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet 
8             400-yard individual medley
9             100-yard butterfly
10           200-yard freestyle
11           100-yard breaststroke
12           100-yard backstroke
19           3-meter diving consolations finals
13           400-yard medley relay (timed final)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Prelims (11 a.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet 
15           200-yard backstroke
16           100-yard freestyle
17           200-yard breaststroke
18           200-yard butterfly
14           1650-yard freestyle (all but fastest heat) (to begin at approx. 4:00pm)

Finals (6 p.m.) | ESPN+ | Heat Sheet 
14           1650-yard freestyle (fastest heat)
15           200-yard backstroke
16           100-yard freestyle
17           200-yard breaststroke
18           200-yard butterfly
19           3-meter diving finals
20          400-yard freestyle relay (timed final)