PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Columbia women's swimming and diving team resides in fifth place after three nights at the 2023 Ivy League Championships. This year's event, taking place on the campus of Princeton University, will conclude tomorrow after one more full day of events. Events still to come include the 1650-free, 200-back, 100-free, 200-breast, 200-fly, 400-free relay, and the finals of the 3-meter dive.

The Lions have accumulated 599 points thus far, currently sitting just behind fourth-place Brown with 607 points. Third-place Yale is up to 768.5 points. Harvard still holds second place with 794 points, while Princeton remains in first place with 1025 points. 

Tonight, Columbia competed in the 400-IM, 100-fly, 200-free, 100-breast, 100-back, and 400-medley relay. 

"Today was another great day for the Lions," Head Coach Diana Caskey said. "Four more top-eight finishes, and great swims to support in the B and C finals. We are in a great fight for fourth place right now with Brown and Penn. This team has been amazing so far, and we will do our best to finish off this championship strong!"

Senior Olivia Jubin had the best finish of the third day for the Lions taking fourth place in the 200-free with a time of 1:47.79. 

Other top-eight finishes on day three included a fifth-place finish for Ashley Hu in the 100-breast (1:01.52), a sixth-place finish for Aziza Ganihanova in the 400-IM (4:16.25), and an eighth-place finish for Karen Liu in the 100-fly (54.21).

Competition resumes tomorrow at 11 a.m. Finals are set for 6 p.m.  Live stats can be found HERE, while both rounds will be available for streaming on ESPN+. 


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