Monday, March 3, 2025

A Three Title Weekend

If you're keeping score, this was a three-Ivy League Championship weekend for Princeton Athletics. 

Further scorekeeping reveals that the Ivy titles for the 2024-25 academic year has reached 10 — by the end of the winter season. That might be unprecedented; TigerBlog will look it up when he's not sitting on a baggage carousel at Philadelphia Airport, like he is as he writes this.

Also, that doesn't count the men's water polo championship this fall, which was non-Ivy, or the Ivy tournament championship for the men's soccer team. 

His goal is to be finished writing about the three titles this weekend by the time the men's lacrosse bus gets back to Caldwell Field House. He's confident he can pull it off. Also, he didn't charge his laptop all day, so it may run out of juice before he gets to Princeton.

He'll have more on the men's lacrosse sweep of Duke and North Carolina tomorrow. If you're interested, the bags from the trip started out on Carousel 18, until that broke with maybe a quarter of the team's bags out. After 15 minutes, the rest were moved to Carousel 17, where almost all of the rest came, until some didn't. 

Those ended up back on 18. 

Anyway, TB is now on the bus. And to begin with: huge congratulations to the men's swimming and diving team, the men's indoor track and field team and the women's indoor track and field team. They all won league championships this weekend. 

Not bad, huh? 

TigerBlog checked out the men's swimming and diving after Friday's results and was stunned by what he saw. Princeton was in the lead, by a single point over Harvard and 11 points ahead of Yale. 

Three teams in a league championship meet separated by only 11 points after three of four days of competition? Has that ever happened? 

As TB understands it, Princeton was DQd in a relay, costing the team 54 points. What would Saturday have in store? 

It was all Tigers. Princeton pulled away on the final day to take down Harvard and Yale by a comfortable, if not crushing, margin. For Princeton, that's 32 Ivy League men's swimming championships all time. This one came one week after the Princeton women won their own.

Mitchell Schott was named High Point Swimmer of the Meet after winning the 200 IM, 200 butterfly and 200 freestyle along with being part of the team that won the 800 freestyle relay. For the second season in a row, Aidan Wang was named High Point Diver of the Meet after winning on 3-meter and finishing second on 1-meter. 

Remember when TB said that the men's swimming and diving team won but didn't do so in a crushing manner? The men's indoor track and field team surely did. 

The final team scores from the event at Cornell were this: Princeton 189.5, followed by Penn with 104.5 and Cornell with 82. 

If you don't want to do the math, Princeton had more than Penn and Cornell combined. Astonishing? Yes. The 85-point win was the largest in the history of Indoor Heps. 

Every time TB went to check the @princetontrack/xc account on X, someone else was winning some event and Princeton was going 1-2 or 1-2-3 or something that piled up the points. The "2015-2025" graphic gives you a sense of how dominant Princeton has been in Indoor Heps (yes, the Tigers have won all of those). 

As for the women's track and field team, Princeton set a Barton Hall record of 8:39.99 to win the 4x800 relay, the final event of the day. Those were the points that gave the Tigers a Heps sweep, by an eight-point margin over Harvard (168-160).

This was Princeton's first title since 2011, and it came after an agonizing six-point loss to Penn a year ago. 

And there you have it. One weekend. Three Ivy titles. Ten for the year to date. 

And since TB isn't back at Jadwin and because his laptop still is on eight percent, he'll give you one more look at the women's championship. 


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