Lions Drop Home Dual to Harvard

Friday, November 22

New York, N.Y.

12:00 P.M.

Columbia University

211

Harvard

Photo by: Columbia University Athletics/Maryam K. Hassan

11/22/2019 4:49:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Results (PDF)

The Columbia women's swimming team fell to the visiting Crimson on Friday afternoon at Percy Uris Natatorium

NEW YORK — In its final home meet of the 2019 calendar year, the Columbia women's swimming and diving team fell to Harvard, 211-89, at Percy Uris Natatorium on Friday afternoon.

"We got a chance to switch up some events in this meet and competed well," said head coach Diana Caskey following the meet. "The team is looking forward to the multi-day invitational at Rutgers Dec. 4-7 to be challenged in a multi-session format with some teams outside the Ivy League."

First-year Olivia Jubin claimed Columbia's lone victory in the meet, winning the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:20.10. It was the first time she had swam the event for the Lions this season. Jubin also picked up a second-place finish in the 100 breast (1:04.09) and a third-place showing in the 100 IM (58.68).

The Columbia divers had a strong showing in a tightly-contested 1-meter competition in which places one through five were separated by less than nine points. Four Lions divers posted NCAA Zone qualifying scores in the event: Briget Rosendahl (3rd, 284.19), Michelle Lee (4th, 283.37), Olivia Ricard (6th, 275.40) and Livy Poulin (7th, 269.04).

"The women made history today with four NCAA Zone qualifying scores in one event," said diving coach Scott Donie. "That's never been done before. This really takes the pressure off to have those scores under our belt this early in the season. Everything came together and it was a great day."

Despite not posting any additional victories, the Lions had a slew of runner-up finishes in the meeting. Columbia started off the meet with a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay as Julia Samson, Helen Wojdylo, Emily Wang and Jessica He came into the wall at 1:44.23.

Silver-worthy finishes for the Lions also included Karen Liu in the 400 IM (4:22.77) and 100 butterfly (55.95), Jessica Peng in the 200 butterfly (2:04.20), Jessica He in the 100 free (52.06) and Wojdylo in the 100 IM (57.37).

Columbia will break from dual meets to compete at the Rutgers Invitational, Dec. 4-8, in Piscataway, New Jersey. The meet will be the Lions' final outing of the 2019 calendar year, resuming action on Jan. 12 when they host Cornell.

For the latest on the Columbia women's swimming and diving program, follow @CULadySwim on Twitter and Instagram, @ColumbiaDiving on Instagram and on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.