PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Junior Jonathan Suckow set two Sheerr Pool records in Columbia's season-opening 159-141 victory at Penn. Following the cancellation fo the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saturday's meet marked the first taste of action in nearly two years and the first collegiate appearances of half head coach Jim Bolster's roster.

No stranger to success at Sheerr, Suckow previously setting its diving records in both the one and three on November 3, 2018. The 2019 First Team All-American recorded a record-breaking score of 435.08 in the three meter event, claiming victory nearly 80 points ahead of the next closest competitor (PENN Hopkins, 352.80) and besting his own pool best by over 50 points. Off the one meter, Suckow ran away with first by once again besting his own record (372.75 points).

Teammate Nicholas Leavell captured second off the one-meter and third off the three with Zone qualifying scores of 326.55 and 323.03, respectively. Suckow and Leavell join female divers Alice Diakova, Briget Rosendahl, Macy Pine, and Michelle Lee in qualifying for Zones, a program record, all within the opening weekend.

Sophomore Stanford Li led the Lions in his first collegiate meet, contributing 22 points to the team's total. Li touched the wall first in both the 500 and 1,000 freestyle events (4:30.57, 9:23.38) while grabbing addional points with a second place finish in the 200 IM (1:51.73).

First-year Kyle Won and senior Jonas Kistorp followed close behind with two individual wins a piece for 18 points. Won grabbed first in both the 100 back (50.14) and 200 back (1:48.54) while Kistorp conquered the meet's shortest events, the 50 and 100 fly, in 21.85 and 49.88, respectively.

Also posting first place finishes were sophomore Seungjoon Ahn (200 fly, 1:48.99) and junior Thomas Shepanzyk (100 free, 46.60).

Next up, the Columbia Lions will travel to Princeton on Nov. 12, for a 5:00 P.M. meet against the Tigers.