PRINCETON, N.J. – Two school records ended up being broken by the end of the third night of competition at the 2023 Ivy League Championships at DeNunzio Pool. Senior Anna Kalandadze swam to a third-place finish and a bronze medal in the 400-yard individual medley, while sophomore Izzy Pytel took sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke.
 
Through three sessions and one day to go, the Quakers are sixth out of eight teams with 521 points.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*One night removed from winning her first-career Ivy League championship in the 500 free, Kalandadze put on another show in the 400 IM to take third place and a bronze medal with her school-record time of 4:15.13 in the opening event. The mark, good enough for a NCAA B-Cut, broke the previous Penn record held by Ellie Grimes (4:16.14) in 2017.
 
*Pytel only managed a sixth-place swim in the 100 breast, but broke a three-year school record in the event with a 1:01.63 during the preliminary session earlier in the day. She swam just .02 seconds slower in the final session, very nearly breaking her own school record in the same day. Pytel now holds the school records for both the 100 and 200 breast, both claimed during this season.
 
*Going back to the 400 IM, Anna Boeckman swam a 4:17.47 to finish first in the B-Final, while Ellen Holmquist placed second in the C-Final with a time of 4:22.23. Emma Stolberg got fifth (4:25.23) and Sydney Bergstrom finished in eighth place (4:26.78).
 
*Vanessa Chong earned a third-place finish during the B-Final of the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 54.14. Amber Smith got eighth in the C-Final with a time of 55.83.
 
*In the 200-yard freestyle, Bridget O'Leary swam to a second-place finish in the B-Final (1:49.05), beating out teammate Catherine Buroker (1:49.36), who finished third. Anna Moehn (1:50.72) and Margot Kaczorowski (1:52.53) placed seventh and eighth, respectively in the heat.
 
*Abby Wickersham rounded out the Quakers' contingency in the 200 free with a sixth-place showing in the C-Final with her time of 1:50.48.
 
*Hannah Liu was Penn's only other representative besides Pytel in the 200 breast, swimming a 1:04.44 in the C-Final to finish fifth.
 
*Penn closed the night by finishing in seventh place in the 400-yard medley relay. Smith, Boeckman, Chong and Kaczorowski swam a 3:44.35 to beat out Dartmouth.
 
*The Quakers fell a spot from Thursday down to sixth place in the Ivy standings with a total of 521 points, behind fifth-place Columbia (599) and ahead of seventh-place Cornell (366) and eighth-place Dartmouth (182.5). Host Princeton is beginning to run away with the Ivy team title at 1,025 points heading into the final day, well ahead of second-place Harvard (794).
 
Up Next
The 2023 Ivy League Women's Swimming & Diving Championships conclude on Saturday with two more sessions, starting with prelims at 11 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. at DeNunzio Pool. The event closes with the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, three-meter dive and 400 free relay. Both sessions will be streamed live on ESPN+ (subscription required).