Ivy season may be over, but the Penn women’s swimming team still has a few more nonconference obstacles to face before League championships begin.
Last year, Penn’s women swimming team dominated Dartmouth yet were narrowly edged by Yale. In this year’s edition of the tri-team event, however, only half the script remained the same.
With one month left until the Ivy Championships, the Penn women’s swimming team won’t have a better dress rehearsal than this weekend’s tri-meet.
Despite earning valuable momentum from winning the Nike Invitational at Kenyon College last weekend, the Penn women’s swimming team fell to a less prolific Columbia opponent last night in New York, N.Y.
Women’s swimming is riding high after dethroning Kenyon at the Nike Invitational for the first time in program history.
In three years of attendance at Kenyon College’s Nike Cup Invitational, the Penn women’s swimming team never beat the hosts or took home a title. That is, until this year.
The perpetual powerhouse Kenyon women’s swimming team doesn’t need an extra boost. But last year the Ladies had one.
The Quakers came away with a split in their dual meet Saturday in Princeton, N.J., falling 160.5-128.5 to perennial powerhouse Princeton but knocking off typical bottom feeder Cornell, 172-128.
Tomorrow, Penn women’s swimming will face Olympic Qualifier Alicia Aemisegger and a powerful Princeton team that finished 7-0 in the Ivy League last season. The Quakers will also compete against Cornell in the dual meet held in Princeton, N.J.
Cracking the top three at the Ivy Championships has been an elusive feat.