Swimming and Diving Closes out Regular Season at Boston Winter Open

Saturday, February 10

Boston, Mass.

12 p.m.

Brown University

Boston Winter Open

Brown University women's swimming and diving defeated Columbia on Saturday, January 13, 2024 in the Katherine Coleman Aquatics Center.

Photo by: Emma C. Marion

Swimming and Diving Closes out Regular Season at Boston Winter Open

2/10/2024 8:48:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

Results

BOSTON – Brown men's and women's swimming and diving capped off the 2023-24 regular season on Saturday with several victories in the Boston Winter Opener at FitRec Competition Pool.

MORNING SESSION
In the morning sessions, Yvonne Jia and Nathan DePiero won the 100-yard butterfly (55.82), Emily Clements topped the 400-yard IM leaderboard (4:26.59), Jack Butera and Lily Welsh won the 100-yard breaststroke (55.58 and 56.27, respectively) and Zach Le-Nguyen won the 100-yard backstroke (49.11).

The men's and women's 200-yard medley relay teams also won their respective events. The women's team consisted of Welsh, Kellie Willhite, Rebecca Waterson, and Lily Robinson), while Le-Nguyen, Nick Clark, DePiero, and Aaron Martin) represented Brown's relay squad.

In the diving events, the 1650-yard freestyle was won by Matt Williamson (15:43.22), Megan Aho earned victories in the 3-meter diving (275.25) and 1-meter diving, with Nicholas Shen doing the same on the men's side.

TRIALS
Welsh won the 100-yard free trial with a time of 53.07, Jerry O'Mara earned the 100-yard backstroke (49.55) win, and DePiero picked up the win in the 50-yard breaststroke (20.27).

EVENING
Five additional victories came in the evening, with Isabelle Shapiro's 200 breaststroke win, Le-Nguyen collecting the 200-yard backstroke win, Gianna Miller and DePiero registering wins in the 100-yard free, and Zehra Bilgin finishing atop the leaderboard in the 200-yard butterfly (2:00.01).

NEXT
The Ivy Championships await both programs, with the women hosting the 2024 Ivy League Championship in the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. Action will be streamed live on ESPN+.

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