Men's Swimming

Hopkins Men Set Two Relay Records on Opening Night

Session 1 Results

LANCASTER, Pa. - Johns Hopkins set new conference and championship meet records in both the men's 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay to open its first Centennial Conference swimming championships in impressive fashion on Thursday night at Franklin & Marshall. 

The Blue Jay 200 medley relay team of Aden Li, Larry Yu, Avery Clapp and Michael Ivanov came out of the gates firing, posting a conference and championship record time of 1:27.96. The previous record of 1:29.11 was set by Swarthmore at last year's CC championship. 

The JHU men's 800 freestyle relay also put on a record-breaking performance as Yu, Clapp, Ken Ning and Josiah March blazed past the previous CC and championship record with a mark of 6:35.10. The previous record of 6:39.80 was set by F&M at the CC meet in 2024. 

On the women's side, Hopkins took gold in the 200 medley relay at 1:42.84 with the quartet consisting of Jaya Veerapaneni, Reese Rothenthal, Kennedy Lee and Anna Miller. Swarthmore closed out the night with a win in the 800 freestyle relay, with Quinn Weygandt, Riley Bacinski, Kate Hallmark and Ava Craig touching the wall in 7:31.94.