NEW YORK – Harvard Women's Swimming and Diving earned a 188-112 road victory at Columbia on Friday morning. With the decision, the Crimson improved to 3-1 (3-1 Ivy League), while the Lions watched their record fall to 1-2 (1-2 Ivy).

"The team showed up for one another today," said Amanda Kulik, The Costin Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's Swimming & Diving. "The consistent strong performance of our divers on three meters set the bar high for the rest of the meet. The goal was urgency and energy from the start; we carried it through to the end. We look forward to building off of what we learned competing against Columbia!"

How It Happened

• Remi Edvalson and Nina Janmyr finished 1-2 in the 3-meter diving event, which opened the festivities in New York City. Edvalson posted a winning score of 333.45, which was a season best. Janmyr also recorded a season-high score (331.65) in a runner-up performance.
• Harvard competed in the 400 medley relay for the first time in 2023-24 and finished atop the leaderboard. Anya Mostek, Stephanie Iannaccone, Sydney Lu and Isabella Alas completed the race in 3:43.76.
• Alexandra Bastone continued Harvard's successful morning by winning the 1,000 free with a time of 10:08.05. The first-year's effort was tad a faster than classmate Piper Wood Prince, who came in second place (10:09.74).
• Mostek captured the 100 back with a season-best effort of 53.70. Her previous best occurred last Saturday vs. Cornell and Dartmouth (53.88).
• Victoria Eisenhauer added to the Crimson's season-best-time list, winning the 100 breast in 1:04.39. Prior to today, Eisenhauer's top 100 breast time of 2023-24 was 1:05.15 vs. Cornell and Dartmouth.
• Edvalson, who opened the day with a victory at three meters, swept the diving events when she put up a season-high score of 301.50 on the one-meter board.
• Mostek went 2-for-2 in the backstroke events. After winning the 100, Mostek took the 200 with a team-season-best time of 2:00.50. Kate Hazlett finished in second place with a mark of 2:02.43.  
• Iannaccone earned nine team points for Harvard after securing first place in the 200 breast. The first-year touched the pad in 2:18.94.  
• Bastone put another nine points in the Crimson's column, emerging from the 500 free as the top performer in a field of eight competitors. The first-year's time of 4:56.29 was more than two seconds faster than her previous best of 4:58.37 vs. Brown.
• Lu continued Harvard's strong finish, coming in first place in the 100 fly (55.27), with Iannaccone following suit in the final individual event of the day – the 200 IM. The first-year cruised to victory with a time of 2:04.77.
• The Crimson put the finishing touches on its day in the city by winning the 200 free relay. Competing in the event for the first time in '23-24, Mostek teamed with Lu, Hazlett and Molly Hamlin to turn in a time of 1:35.00, which was one-tenth of a second better than Columbia (1:35.10). 

Up Next

Harvard will return to action when it competes at the Minnesota Invitational (Nov. 29-Dec. 3).