Albert-Gwo

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Men and women’s swimming at Columbia operate under a long shadow, that of Ivy League heavyweights Harvard and Princeton. It’s been 48 years since Harvard and Princeton were both denied the championship on the men’s side, and only one women’s team has broken the seal in the last 20 years. This means, effectively, that the Lions must battle it out for third every year.

Men’s swimming and diving finished its season with a fifth-place finish at the Ivy League Championships. Led by historic dominance from its relay groups and two individual golds for junior freestyle sprinter Albert Gwo, the Lions were in the hunt for third place throughout the four-day meet. But with the heartbreak of two disqualifications for senior Nian-Guo Liu in events he had dominated throughout the season, the Lions dropped into the bottom half of the conference.

After taking its worst loss of the season against Navy on the road, Columbia men’s swimming and diving recovered to clobber Dartmouth on Senior Day. The Lions’ last home meet of the season, albeit against a weak team, was a resounding success.

The men’s swimming and diving team began their 2020 season jet-lagged and fatigued. After flying back from a training trip to Hawaii on Sunday, Columbia topped Cornell, which has won only one Ivy meet this season, at home 167-133 on Tuesday, but fell on the road to Brown 186-114 on Saturday.

Despite strong performances by Columbia’s relay swimmers and sprinters, men’s swimming finished fifth of seven teams at Princeton’s Big Al Invite this weekend, managing only one first-place finish in 21 events.

Men’s swimming and diving was smoked by the Ivy League’s best on Friday, losing to Harvard 169.5-129.5. While the Lions eked out wins in medley and freestyle sprinting events, they were swept in the freestyle distance and diving events. This is Columbia’s 14th straight dual loss to the Crimson, although it put down its smallest margin of loss since 2013.

Men’s swimming and diving posted sounding victories over Army, Penn, and Yale to open its season. Columbia won 179-121 and set a pool record against Penn, before triumphing over Yale 172-128.

Well, this feels weird. The inaugural sports nerd-a-thon. A stream of emails between Muneeb Alam, resident hockey genius and the former sports Co-Editor of Spec, and me [Daniel Radov], a golf researcher and current sports Deputy Editor of Spec. It all sounds so exciting. We'll try to run this weekly touching on the most interesting (at least to us) subjects in the world of sports....

We are sorry to report that former Dean Albert Rosenthal has passed away at 91. He spent his entire career at Columbia, and was even involved in the decision to admit women. more The New York Times remembers Rosenthal for both his feminist legacy and his other institutional reforms.