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Women’s swimming and diving had a strong weekend showing at the Frank Elm Invitational at Rutgers, finishing in third place with a score of 1229.5, behind Navy and the host, Rutgers.
Despite key wins in four backstroke and freestyle events, women’s swimming and diving could not overcome the defending Ivy League champion Yale in a 188-111 loss on Friday.
In its first weekend of competition, women’s swimming and diving dropped meets to Penn, 152.5-147.5, and Harvard, 150.5-87.5.
Women’s swimming and diving will open the 2017-2018 season this weekend with meets against Penn and Harvard.
Columbia field hockey defeated Yale 5-4 on a last-second corner on Saturday to clinch a winning 2017 campaign.
After a 2-0 victory over Penn on Friday, field hockey was unable to keep up its momentum and fell 8-1 to No. 9 Delaware on Sunday.
In 2012, Caroline Nelson-Nichols competed for the United States in the London Olympics. Three years later, in 2015, she became the head coach of a Columbia field hockey team that had come away one win short of capturing an Ivy League title the previous season.
