Women’s swimming and diving placed sixth at the Ivy League Championships this past weekend, underperforming its dual-meet season, where it won four out of seven meets against Ivy League teams. Though the team struggled to keep up with Ancient Eight titans Princeton and Harvard, the meet was capped by impressive individual performances.

USA Field Hockey has named Caroline Nelson-Nichols as the new U.S. Women’s National Team head coach. Nelson-Nichols departed from her role as the head coach of Columbia’s field hockey team, a position she held for five seasons, with a total of 41 wins and 43 losses.

Almost every part of women’s swimming and diving was firing on all cylinders on Saturday when Columbia (4-3, 4-3 Ivy) dismantled Dartmouth (2-7, 1-4 Ivy) 215-84 in its last home meet of the season. The contest against the Big Green also marked the last dual meet of eight seniors’ careers. The Light Blue flexed their muscles to honor those seniors, only dropping three events to Dartmouth the whole day.

In the last road dual meet of the spring, No. 22 Princeton (7-1, 5-0 Ivy) defeated Columbia (3-3, 3-3 Ivy) in its soundest loss of the season. The Lions only mustered three event wins and six second-place finishes on the day, struggling to match up against a formidable Princeton squad, which ended up winning the meet 210-87.

In its first two dual meets of 2020, Columbia went undefeated, besting Cornell and Brown to establish momentum and earn a winning record. In both meets, the Lions’ top swimmers continued their stellar individual seasons while the relay and diving units also found success.

Coming off of two consecutive Ivy League dual meet losses, women’s swimming and diving was determined to prove its roster’s talent at this week’s Rutgers Invitational. The Light Blue did just that with nine victories out of 22 rounds throughout the four-day meet, led by impressive performances from its relay units and individual stars.

Each season marks a new start for Columbia Athletics. Players are given another chance to realize their full potential, and teams are invigorated with hopes of winning championship titles. The actions of individuals and their teams define the culture of Columbia Athletics for years to come; these are the moments that characterized the fall 2019 season.

On Friday, women’s swimming and diving suffered a resounding loss to Harvard at the Percy Uris Natatorium, falling 211-89 in a meet in which the Lions only managed a victory in one event.

During a Friday meet at the Percy Uris Natatorium, Columbia women’s swimming and diving (1-1, 1-1 Ivy) lost to Yale (3-0, 2-0 Ivy) by a decisive margin of 45 points. The meet saw slow freestyle and butterfly times, but a strong performance from the team’s first-years.