What's On Tap?

The first night of competition should carry over from the first day of preliminary competition. This year's EISL competition is absolutely wide open and there will no doubt be some interesting movement up and down the leaderboard for this competition.

Chuck Yrigoyen ('82, Syracuse) of the Ivy League kicked off the night's festivities with a presentation of the Dual Meet Championship trophy to Cornell University.

The first competition to be contested will be the 200 Freestyle Relay.

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Men's Preview: Thursday

The men are in the pool currently in preparation for the Thursday preliminaries. In the morning session, the men will be swimming in the following disciplines:

200 Free Relay
500 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Freestyle
1m Diving

Gentlemen, the women have set the bar high...so swim fast and let's break some more records...

Best of luck, fellas!

Women's Championships Video

I'm pleased to provide 6-1/2 minutes or so of video from the final night of the 2007 Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Here's the disclaimer: Not every school is represented equally. That's a fact of life when trying to do something like this. What I do regret is that I was unable to get any diving action footage because I was editing this piece and just missed a chance to get the final dives of the 3-meter competition. You'll note Katie Giarra's photo towards the end, recognizing her as the Diver of the Meet. Giarra's performances at both 1- and 3-meters earned some of the biggest cheers of the meet. Congratulations to Katie and her coach, Greg Gunn of Princeton. The video is hosted by YouTube.com.

Honoring EISL Past: Schollander and Graef

Sometimes it is always great fun to honor the past when describing the present. As the EISL competition draws near, we have exhausted the archives to find some of the great Ivy heroes of the past. Below is a fun little Uncle Sam propaganda video that highlights Donald Schollander (Yale, '68) in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics breaking an Olympic Record in the 100m Freestyle. In addition, at the tail end of the video, Jed Graef (Princeton, '64) is also highlighted for his Gold medal in the 200m Backstroke. So take a fairly deep trip down memory lane to reminisce with some former Ivy Leaguers that won on the "World's Grandest Stage" [the Olympics] and enjoy the video provided by YouTube.com.
Schollander also combined with fellow Yale swimmers, Michael Austin and Stephen Clark ('65) to win Gold in the 400m Freestyle Relay.

It's...PRINCETON!

The Princeton Tigers...your 2006-07 Ivy League Women's Swimming Champions!

Not only did Princeton win the dual meet regular season title with a perfect record, but they also capped off the undefeated Ivy League season by winning the Frank Keefe Trophy, designated for the Ivy League Champ, in front of the home crowd at DeNunzio Pool.

Princeton also had the distinction of having both the Most Outstanding Swimmer and Most Outstanding Diver in Alicia Aemisegger ('10) and Katie Giarra ('09), respectively.

The final rankings were as follows:

1. Princeton - 1,496
2. Harvard - 1,408 1/2
3. Yale - 1,122
4. Penn - 1,073
5. Columbia - 925
6. Brown - 811
7. Dartmouth - 634
8. Cornell - 339 1/2

Congratulations to all participants and thanks for everyone who assisted in making this meet a terrific success.

We'll see you in 2008!