Cornell women edge Dartmouth for first swimming and diving win

Cornell’s women’s swimming and diving team secured its first victory of the season with a closing relay performance Saturday, beating Dartmouth 152.5-146.5 during a two-day meet at Yale.

The Big Red also lost 178-121 to host Yale in the separately scored dual meets in New Haven, Connecticut, according to Cornell Athletics. Cornell finished its first road weekend 1-3 overall and in Ivy League competition. Yale beat Dartmouth 190-109, with diving held Friday and swimming Saturday.

Freestyle relays protect six-point victory

Rosalee Springer, Isabela Teixeira, Arina Vorobyeva and Ming Xu completed the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:24.85, beating Dartmouth’s leading quartet by 3.06 seconds to close the meet.

Cornell’s other quartet — Anna Nishnianidze, Kate Lucyshyn, Kyleigh Tangen and Katherine Yee — finished in 3:28.92. That group also beat Dartmouth’s second relay, adding points that helped secure the narrow team result.

Yoon wins twice against combined field

Senior Hojung Yoon finished ahead of both opponents in the 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley. In the backstroke, she overtook Yale’s Mabel Koff with a final 50 of 29.14 seconds, finishing in 1:57.51 for a 0.54-second victory.

Yoon completed the 200 IM in 2:00.82, beating Yale’s Lucy Walker by 0.47 seconds. Sophomore Oceane Vanlinthout swam 2:04.66, taking second in the Dartmouth scoring and third against Yale. Yoon also placed second against each opponent in the 200 freestyle with a 1:48.62.

Xu, a senior, matched Dartmouth’s Carinn Bethea at 23.38 seconds to share the overall 50 freestyle victory. Her time also won the Yale matchup outright. Teixeira followed in 23.83, placing second against Dartmouth and third against Yale.

Yee beat Dartmouth’s swimmers in both butterfly races and took second against Yale in each. She finished the 200 in 2:02.34, trailing Yale’s Angela Wang by 0.29 seconds. Her 55.13 in the 100 was 0.14 seconds behind Yale’s Siri Vanderlinden.

Close finishes add individual points

Senior Erin DeHollander beat Dartmouth’s Madeline Crawford by 0.57 seconds in the 1,000 freestyle, finishing in 10:10.19. She later took second against Dartmouth in the 500, swimming the last 50 in 27.95 to finish in 5:00.08 — six-hundredths of a second ahead of Izzy Mundee.

Springer won the Dartmouth matchup in the 100 backstroke in 55.84, followed by teammate Aly Yokoyama in 56.29. Springer also led Cornell in the 100 freestyle, recording 50.67 for second against Dartmouth and third against Yale.

Freshman Abby Lee was Cornell’s leading 100 breaststroke swimmer in 1:05.37, placing second in each dual meet.

Divers earn victories against Yale

Freshman Ava Jannink scored 251.30 points on the 1-meter board, winning against Yale and placing second against Dartmouth. Senior Morgan Ogata led Cornell on 3-meter with 272.05 points, also beating Yale’s divers while finishing 0.20 points behind Dartmouth’s Maggie Lambdin for first overall.

Junior Julia Wilkinson scored 228.10 on 3-meter, taking third in both dual-meet matchups.

In Saturday’s opening swimming event, Yoon, Nicole Byrnes Cortinas, Xu and Springer completed the 200 medley relay in 1:42.72. They beat Yale’s top relay by three-hundredths of a second and finished 0.11 seconds behind Dartmouth.

Cornell next competes at the Western New York Invitational on Nov. 20-21 in Buffalo.

Photo: Darl Zehr/Cornell Athletics.

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