The 2015 Women’s Ivy League Championship meet will be held from February 19th-21st at the Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and psych sheets have been released.
As is typical coming into this Ivy League meet, there’s some balance with the top seeds well-distributed. The Ivy League regular season, though, is very hard to get a read off of, so expect this meet in the overall team scoring to come back to the three big players: Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.
Swimmers, at present, are over-entered in many spots, so we can’t read too far into things, but the Yale Bulldogs almost have a jump-start thanks to the biggest name at the meet: distance swimmer Eva Fabian. She’ll have to be careful though – then-Harvard-sophomore Sherry Liu upset Fabian in the 1000 free at last year’s championship. That’s a scoring event at this meet, and causes an 8 point swing between first and second.
Harvard and Princeton have combined to win the last 15 team titles, with a Brown win in 1999 the last interjection.
Without accounting for over-entries, this is how the meet would score out based on psychs, indicating that the Bulldogs have at least a punchers chance this season:
| Yale | 1448 |
| Harvard | 1348 |
| Princeton | 1240 |
| Penn | 866 |
| Columbia | 715 |
| Brown | 635 |
| Cornell | 476 |
| Dartmouth | 410 |
A full meet preview will come next week.
Wow, the Harvard and Yale dominate the psych sheet. An H/Y swimmer is seed first in 11 of the 14 individual swimming events and these teams control 27 of the 42 top 3 spots. Harvard is also seed first in 4 of the 5 relays, with Brown having the top spot in the 200 free relay.
Top Seeds by school: Yale 6, Harvard 5, Princeton, Penn, Columbia 1 each
#2 seeds: Yale 7, Harvard 4, Brown 2, Princeton 1
#3 seeds: Harvard 3, Princeton 3, Yale 3, Brown 2, Penn, Columbia, Cornell 1 each
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