PROVIDENCE, RI -- Strong individual performances from Columbia's men's and women's swim teams fell short as the Lions dropped to the Brown Bears in Providence. Diana Caskey's women finished 96-181 while Jim Bolster's men collected a 100-194 result.

On the women's side junior Karen Liu broke the 2:00 barrier, winning the 200 butterfly in 1:59.15. Classmate Isabelle Arevalo took first in the 50 free (23.21), pacing the finish for Emily MacDonald (23.47), Claire Lin (24.25), and Jazlynn Pak (24.50) in the 3-4-5 slots. First-year Allison Martin rounded out the Lions' individual first-place finishers, collecting nine points in the 200 IM (2:03.33).

Arevalo and MacDonald joined Olivia Jubin and Clare Larsen to win the 400 free relay in 3:23.69. Meanwhile, teammates Aniston Eyre, Georgia Young, Emily Wang, and Callie Breiter swam for second (3:28.03)

Columbia collected the majority of the top spots in the 1,000, 200, and 100 free. Sophomore Aziza Ganihanova earned a second place result in the grueling 1,000 free (10:04.73) followed by Mary Pruden (3,10:09.54) and Jubin (4, 10:13.45). Clare Larsen led the Lions in the 200 free, taking second in 1:52.12, followed by Young in third (1:53.32), and  Eyre in fourth (1:52.67). Young improved to a second place finish in the 100 free (51.77) followed by Eyre (51.85), Larsen (52.21), and Tina Li in fifth (52.25).

The women return to Morningside Heights tomorrow, Sunday, Jan. 16, to host Cornell at noon. The Lions last took on the Big Red on Jan. 12, 2020, claiming a 164-136 victory at Percy Uris. Cornell stands at 2-3 in dual meet action having defeated St. Bonaventure (144-92) and Dartmouth (155-143) while falling to Harvard (213-87), Penn (208.5-91.5), and Princeton (221-78).

Senior Jonas Kistorp and first-year Demirkan Demir continued to headline the men's squad, earning two victories a piece. Kistorp touched the wall first in the 50 freestyle (20.51), besting Brown's Horace Qiao by fractions of a second (20.94) before defeating the same Bear in the 100 butterfly (49.36). Coming off a record-setting meet at the Big Al Invitational in December, Demir swam for first in the 100 breaststroke (55.91) ahead of teammate Michael Chang (56.47) and the 200 breastroke (2:01.68). Columbia's David Wang took second in the 200 breast in 2:02.50. Also earning an individual first-place finish was rookie Kyle Won whose 50.14 finish in the 100 backstroke was just one tenth of a second ahead of Brown's Zach Le-Nguyen (50.15).

Kistorp and Demir opened the meet with a victory in the 200 medley relay alongside sophomore Andy Huang and junior Thomas Shepanzyk in 1:30.32. The relay team of Chang, Kyle Won, Ray Yang, and Hayden Liu collected third in 1:31.91.



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