PHILADELPHIA – For the first time this season, the University of Pennsylvania men's and women's swimming and diving teams hit the road upstate New York to face Ivy League foes Cornell and Princeton this weekend at Teagle Pool. Diving gets underway Friday night at 5 p.m., while swimming begins Saturday at 10 a.m.
 
The Penn women are 4-0 to start the 2025-26 season following conference wins over Columbia and Brown. It's their second straight 4-0 start to begin a campaign after doing the same last year. The men are coming off a thrilling 157-143 over the Bears at Sheerr Pool last weekend.
 
Quaker Notemeal (W)
*The Penn women opened Saturday's meet against Brown by going 1–2 in the 200 medley relay. The quartet of Kate Levensten, Meredith Holcomb, Maggie Hu, and Kayla Fu took the win in 1:41.74, while the group of Amy Qin, Kate Handley, Amber Smith, and Connie Wang followed closely in 1:41.97.
 
*Anna Moehn secured the top spot in the 1000 free with a 10:03.29, and Sydney Bergstrom claimed third in 10:10.49. Moehn later added a runner-up finish in the 500 free, clocking 4:55.74.
 
*Levensten added another victory in the 100 back, posting a 54.33 to lead a Penn sweep. Brianna Cong placed second (54.91) and Wang took third (56.78). Levensten also finished second in the 200 back at 1:58.29.
 
*Cong picked up a win of her own in the 200 back, touching in 1:57.41 and capping a standout day that also included third-place efforts in both the 100 fly (55.93) and the 100 back.
 
*Hu claimed the 200 fly in 2:02.41 and later added a second-place showing in the 100 fly with a 55.13.
 
*Kayla Fu swept the sprint freestyle races, winning the 50 free in 22.67 and the 100 free in 49.81.
 
*In the 100 breast, Handley (1:04.15) and Holcomb (1:04.22) finished second and third, respectively. Holcomb went on to win the 200 breast in 2:16.97.
 
*Amber Smith earned the win in the 100 fly, leading a Penn 1–2–3 finish with her time of 54.86.
 
*On the diving board, Rachel Yang took first on the one-meter board with a 275.40, while Sadie Howard placed third in the three-meter event with a 254.25.
 
Quaker Notemeal (M)
*To help the Penn men collect their first dual win of the 2025-26 season, Eddie Jin continued his dominance in the freestyle races, winning both the 200 free (1:39.35) and 100 free (44.26). He later anchored the winning 400 free relay alongside Jeffrey Hou, Liam Campbell, and Alex Fu, bringing it home in 2:59.68.
 
*Watson Nguyen delivered a strong victory in the 100 breast, clocking 55.15, and followed it up with a runner-up finish in the 200 breast at 2:03.53 to lead a solid overall showing for the Quakers.
 
*Henry Guo captured the 200 fly in 1:48.76 to pace a Penn sweep, with Peter Whittington (1:49.88) and Max Malakhovets (1:50.42) rounding out the top three. Guo also earned second-place finishes in the 100 fly (49.02) and 200 IM (1:51.49).
 
*Hou added a win in the 100 fly, edging out teammates Guo (49.02) and Fu (49.08) with his 49.01 for yet another 1–2–3 finish for the Red and Blue. He also claimed third in the 100 back (50.14).
 
*Whittington picked up a victory of his own in the 200 breast, touching in 2:01.62, and later secured a second-place finish in the 200 fly.
 
*Penn opened the meet on a high note with a win in the 200 medley relay, as Jin, Nguyen, Fu, and Campbell combined for a 1:29.98.
 
Scouting The Big Red
*The Cornell women enter the weekend with an 0-2 overall record following defeats at Dartmouth (161-139) and Harvard (191-108).
 
*In its last meet, the Big Red dropped both duals, but delivered several strong performances across the lineup with multiple runner-up finishes.
 
*Cornell opened the meet with a sharp performance in the 200-yard medley relay, where the team of Aly Yokoyama, Audrey Holden, Sadye Derstadt, and Kate Li placed second in 1:42.46, finishing just .06 behind Harvard. The Big Red closed the afternoon with another runner-up relay effort in the 200 freestyle relay, as Rosalee Springer, Ariel Lin, Li, and freshman Isabela Teixeira combined for a 1:33.79 finish.
 
*Individually, Springer and senior Jungmin Yoon set the tone early in the 200 free, taking second (1:50.61) and third (1:50.40), respectively.
 
*On the men's side, Cornell is 1-1 after defeating Dartmouth, 158-142, last weekend and falling to Harvard, 215-85.
 
*Co-captain Pietro Ubertalli headlined the win over the Big Green with a great swim in the 200 free, touching first in 1:36.25.
 
Scouting The Tigers
*The Princeton women enter the meet ranked No. 25 nationally by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
 
*The Tigers are 2-0 following dual meet victories over Dartmouth (228.5-71.5) and Brown (218-82) two weekends ago. Princeton swam against Rutgers last weekend at DeNunzio Pool.
 
*In the tri-meet with the Big Green and Bears, the women won every event except one, racking up several pool-record times.
 
*Freshman Chloe Kim, a Glen Rock, N.J. native, opened her collegiate career in impressive fashion with two individual victories—both achieved in pool-record times. An Olympic Trials qualifier and U.S. World Junior Championships team member, Kim captured wins in the 1,000 freestyle and 400 individual medley.
 
*She wasn't the only first-year to make a statement on opening day. Fellow freshmen Delaney Herr of California and Savannah Skow of Washington also set pool records in their respective events—the 100 back for Herr and the 500 free for Skow. Skow added to her standout debut by also claiming the 200 free.
 
*The Princeton men are off to a fast start to their 2025-26 season, 3-0 through the first three meets. All three victories have come in Ivy competition, downing Dartmouth (228-72), Brown (219-81) and Columbia (225-75) with runaway results.
 
*In the dominant W over the Lions at home, the Tigers won 15 of the meet's 16 total events.
 
*The 200 relay team of Yanning Zhang, Keian Lam, Logan Noguchi and Patrick Dinu set a new Princeton record just one week after setting a new pool record at Dartmouth.
 
*Aidan Wang set a new record on the 1-meter with a score of 378.45.
 
*Mitchell Schott carried on with his quest to reset the record boards, breaking his own program record in the 1000 free. Schott touched the wall and put up a time of 8:47.46.
 
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