Yale Women Improve To 3-0 With 179-121 Triumph Over Columbia

Yale vs Columbia (Women)

• Friday, November 11, 2022
• New York, N.Y.
• SCY (25 yards)
• Results
• Team Score: Yale 179, Columbia 121

Courtesy: Yale Athletics

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Yale women’s swimming and diving team continued its strong start to the season. The Bulldogs were on the road for the first time this season and knocked off Columbia 179-121 at Uris Natatorium.

Yale won both diving events and both relays. Paige Lai captured the 3-meter diving, while Lily Horenkamp was the 1-meter winner. In the 200 medley relay, Lindsey Wagner, Jessey Li, Alex Massey and Ophelia Pilkinton led the Bulldogs to victory with a time of 1:42.24. The 200 freestyle relay team of Li, Wagner, Caroline McCurdy and Ophelia Pilkinton won with a time of 1:33.29.

Massey captured both the 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly. Other winners for the Bulldogs were: Ally Bernier (1,000 freestyle), Wagner (100 backstroke), Li (100 breaststroke), and Lilly Derivaux (500 freestyle).

Next up for Yale is the Ohio State Invitational, which starts on Thursday and runs through Saturday.

Courtesy: Columbia Athletics

NEW YORK – Senior Karen Liu set a pool record in the 200 butterfly and won the 200 breaststroke in Columbia’s home opening meet against Yale. Despite six individual race wins, the Bulldogs came up victorious, 179-121. Also victorious in winning two races were Olivia Jubin and Emily MacDonald.

“I was pleased with our team’s spirit today,” head coach Diana Caskey said. “They enjoyed competing at home, and we were closer than we’ve been against Yale in a long time in many events. Overall, it was a good outing for us.”

Liu became the first woman to eclipse 2:00 in the 200 butterfly at Uris Natatorium, clocking in at 1:59.15 on her way to victory. Later in the competitions, Liu took the top spot in the 200 breaststroke, turning in a performance of 2:14.71.

Jubin claimed the Lions’ first victory of the evening in the 200 freestyle. Jubin touched the wall in 1:51.01, just .06 in front of Yale’s Raime Jones in a thrilling race.

In the 50 free, MacDonald turned in a winning time of 23.46 and received points from Sally Ma (23.48 – third) and Isabelle Arevalo (23.65 – fourth) as the Lions tried to cut into their early deficit. MacDonald’s next event (51.03) edged Yale’s Caroline McCurdy by just .02 seconds to come up victorious in the 100-freestyle coming out of the diving break.

After Liu’s second victory, Yale won the next two races and secured enough points to clinch the matchup.

Columbia is back in the water next Friday, November 18, when it faces Harvard at 1 p.m. in Cambridge.

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