Kim Named Swimmer of the Meet, Rosenberg Diver of the Meet
Preliminary
Results
Final
Resuts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Bulldogs finished third
at the Ivy League Championships on Saturday. Senior Susan Kim
and freshman Alex Forrester continued their dominance each winning
another event. Yale also won the 400-yard freestyle
relay. Princeton won the Ivy League Championships with a
score of 1465, narrowly edging out Harvard who finished with 1438
points. Princeton has now won nine of the last 11 Ivy League
Championships. Yale finished in third with 1350 points, after
having its best overall performance in years.
The Bulldogs also had some of their best individual performances
in years. The league honored Kim with Swimmer of the Meet and
sophomore Rachel Rosenberg with Diver of the Meet. Kim had
what will surely go down as the best meet of her career. On
Thursday, she took third in the 400-yard IM and helped Yale to a
second-place finish in the 400-yard medley relay. She started
off Friday with a team win in the 200-yard medley relay. She
then broke the pool, meet, and Ivy records en route to a dominating
win in the 100-yard breaststroke. Then, in her best
performance of the meet, Kim won the 200-yard breaststroke by over
five seconds. She broke the meet, pool, and Ivy records, as
well as earned the first NCAA A cut of her career.
Rosenberg also had an outstanding meet. She won the
three-meter diving event with a score of 291.60, her highest score
of the year. She also took sixth in the one-meter event.
Morning
Preliminaries
Perhaps the Bulldogs weakest event of the championship was the
200-yard backstroke. Yale only entered one swimmer in the
event, but she was determined to earn Yale as many points as she
could. Freshman Molly Albrecht took second in the morning
preliminaries, earning herself a spot in the A final with her time
of 1:59.73.
In the 100-yard freestyle, Yale managed to place two swimmers in
the A final and a third in the B final. Sophomore Emily
Dominski and freshman Cynthia Tsay both earned spots in the A final
by finishing third and fifth, respectively. Dominski's time
was 51.07, while Tsay's was 51.52. Senior Laura Grigereit
qualified for the B final by finishing 14th.
Kim made the biggest statement of her swimming career Saturday
morning in the 200-yard breaststroke. Kim came into the event
holding both the meet and Ivy League record. Her Ivy League
record time coming in was 2:12.17. In the morning
preliminaries, Kim took first place with a time of 2:09.38.
Not only did she capture the meet record, Ivy record, and pool
record which had stood since 1991, but she also earned the first
NCAA A cut of her career. She broke the A cut mark by 0.49
seconds. She also defeated the next closest swimmer by almost
five seconds. Sophomore Athena Liao also earned herself a
spot in the A final with a time of 2:17.36.
In the 200-yard butterfly, Forrester came out and made a
statement of her own, taking first by over two seconds. Her
time was 1:55.85 which broke the meet record set last year by Kate
Mills of Harvard. Three other Yale swimmers also qualified
for the A final. Freshman Monica Tung, sophomore Hayes Hyde,
and junior Ileana Lucos all made it through to the A final
finishing third fourth and fifth, respectively. Senior
Kristin Darwin just missed out on making the B final and qualified
for the C final with her time of 2:06.17.
Evening Finals
The evening session opened with the 1650-yard freestyle.
It is an event that is not normally swum during the dual season and
it is also swum without a preliminary due to its length.
Yale's highest finisher was junior Annie Killian who took eighth
with a time of 17:01.29. Abigail Nunn, swimming with cracked
ribs, took an astonishing 11th place with a time of
17:09.47. Also scoring points for Yale was freshman Margaret
Brown, who took 16th with a time of 17:24.70.
In the 200-yard backstroke, Yale's only competitor was Albrecht,
but she managed to take second place with a time of 1:58.52.
She earned herself an NCAA B cut and 28 points for the Bulldogs.
In the 100-yard freestyle, Dominski improved her morning time by
over a second and took second place for Yale with a time of
49.91. She also earned herself an NCAA B cut. Tsay who
was also swimming in the A final took sixth with a time of
51.67. Grigereit, competing in the B final, took
15th with a time of 52.79.
Kim may have rewritten the record books in the morning, but the
records didn't last more than a few hours as she rewrote them again
in the evening finals. She won the 200-yard breaststroke with
a time of 2:09.37. She broke her own meet record, Ivy record,
and pool record. She also dropped her NCAA A cut time by .46
seconds. Liao took fifth for Yale with a time of 2:16.54 and
earned the first NCAA B cut of her career.
Alex Forrester managed to drop a few hundredths of a second of
her morning time and won her third individual event of the meet in
the 200-yard butterfly. Her time of 1:55.78 broke her own
meet record from earlier in the morning. Hyde took third with
a time of 2:00.23 and earned herself an NCAA B cut. Lucos
also earned the first NCAA B cut of her career, taking fourth with
a time of 2:00.47. Tung just missed out on a B cut with her
fifth place finish. Her time was 2:00.97. Darwin took
18th overall with a time of 2:05.13.
Yale continued its dominance in the diving. This time it
was freshman Paige Meneses near the top of the leaderboard in the
one-meter event. She took second with a score of
253.55. Sophomore Rachel Rosenberg, who won the three-meter
diving, took sixth in the one-meter with a score of 244.30.
Senior Marisa Poverman took 22nd with a score of 193.15.
The final event of the championship was the 400-yard
freestyle. Although Yale was out of reach at this point, they
made sure to go out on top. The team of Forerster, Dominski,
Tsay, and freshman Joan Weaver, took first with a time of
3:20.59. The team earned an NCAA B cut.
In the end, Yale could not catch Prinecton and Harvard, but it
was a lot closer than last year. The next closest team to
Yale was Penn who finished with 904.5 points. It was a three
team race from the beginning.
Kim and Forrester will move on to the NCAA Championships, as
will divers Rosenberg and Meneses. For the rest of the team,
this is the end of the season and their last meet with legendary
coach Frank Keefe.
Report filed by Charles Moore '10, Yale Sports
Publicity
