No. 25 Men's Swimming & Diving To Face Penn, Cornell - Princeton ...
PRINCETON, N.J.- The Tigers will head to Philadelphia to face two Ivy foes in Penn and Cornell. The meet will take place at Drexel Pool with diving competition starting on Nov. 22 and the pool events taking place on Nov. 23 at 3:00 PM.
Pool Records To Princeton
Five pool records were broken by members of the Princeton swimming & diving roster. Yanning Zhang, Patrick Dinu, Logan Noguchi and Brett Feyerick set a new 200 medley relay record with a time of 1:29.94. Zhang broke an individual record in the 100 backstroke and touched the wall at 47.13. Dinu followed suit in the 100 freestyle coming in at 42.91. Mitch Schott broke the pool record in the 200 butterfly by 5.5 seconds and his 1:42.22 is the second fastest time in program history. The day was wrapped up with the finishing touches in the 400 freestyle by the team of Schott, Zhang, Noguchi and Dinu with a time of 2:54.26.
Romanian Rocket
Patrick Dinu quickly made waves in his first ever collegiate meet on Nov. 9. The freshman broke both a freshmen and program record in the season opener at DeNunzio Pool. He recorded a time of 42.51 in the 100 freestyle for the program record and a 53.49 in the 100 breaststroke for the freshmen record.
Shoot Your Schott
Mitch Schott started the 2024-25 season off with a bang. The junior captain broke his own record in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:32.78 at the season opener. He currently is in the top 10 fastest times for four different events.
Diving Dominance
Aidan Wang led the way for Princeton on the boards. The sophomore won both diving events on the 1-meter and 3-meter. Luca Fassi and George Callanan earned second and third place respectively in 1-meter. Callanan grabbed the number two spot in the 3-meter.
Top 25 Tigers
After a strong opening weekend, Princeton moved into the No. 25 spot on the November edition of the CSCAA dual meet poll.
2023-24 NCAA Qualifiers
Aidan Wang, Luca Fassi and George Callanan represented the men's swimming and diving team at the NCAA Championships. Wang and Fassi competed on 1-Meter and 3-Meter and Callanan on platform.
All-Ivy
The Tigers return eight members of their 2023-24 roster that earned All-Ivy honors. The First Team included Aidan Wang (1-meter and 3-meter) and Noah Sech (400 individual medley). Tyler Hong picked up Second Team honors in the 200 individual medley. Brett Feyereick Mitch Schott, Daniel Li and Lucas Tudoras were Second Team All-Ivy in the 400 freestyle relay. Schott, Sech, and Max Hunger were part of the Second Team All-Ivy 800 freestyle relay.
Olympic Moments
Princeton had swimmers and divers from 12 different countries compete at the Olympic trials. Yanning Zhang (Australia), Lucas Tudoras (Brazil), Parker Lenoce (Canada), Lucas Strøbeck (Denmark), Rasmus Makela (Finland), Santiago Gutierrez (Mexico), Patrick Dinu (Romania), Max Seidel (Switzerland), Arthur Balva (United States), Devyn Caples (United States), Luca Fassi (United States), Brett Feyerick (United States), Tyler Hong (United States), Daniel Li (United States), Conor McKenna (United States), Mitchell Schott (United States), Aidan Wang (United States), and Andrew Zou (United States) all pursued bids for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
Adell Sabovic represented Kosovo in the 100 meter freestyle and was the flag bearer in the closing ceremony.
New Kids On Deck
The Tigers welcome in 10 members of the class of 2028. Tomaz Chevres, Santiago Gutierrez, Patrick Dinu, Max Marcus, Logan Noguchi, Devyn Caples, Curan Palmer, Conan Chen, Benjamin Romig and Andrew Zou round out the group.
Meet The Captains
Schott, Feyerick and Hong were named the team's captains for the 2024-25 season.
