The Harvard women’s swimming and diving team blew the competition out of the water this weekend, winning 23 out of a possible 31 events over two meets and against three opponents.

The Crimson (3-0, 3-0 Ivy) took on both Cornell (1-1, 1-1) and Dartmouth (0-2, 0-2) in its season opener at an away meet on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., beating the Big Red 176-124 and whipping the Big Green 190-110. Harvard then went on to an even bigger home debut on Sunday, annihilating Columbia (0-1, 0-1) 205-92 and winning all but two events contested.

Harvard coach Stephanie Wriede-Morawski ’92 tested out swimmers in different events throughout the meet against Cornell and Dartmouth, with freshmen winning 10 out of the 23 events won on the weekend.

CORNELL-DARTMOUTH TRI-MEET

The Crimson’s freshman swimmers debuted to rave reviews, earning five of the Crimson’s 10 event wins. Freshman Bridget O’Connor captured two first-place finishes—one in the 100-yard butterfly, her main event, the other the top half of a 1-2 Harvard finish in the 200-yard freestyle. Classmate Meaghan Colling placed second.

Other freshmen to finish with first-place times were Lindsay Hart in the 1,000-yard freestyle and Jackie Pangilinan in the 200-yard individual medley. Those events are both off-events for the swimmers, who usually swim backstroke and breaststroke, respectively, as their main events, but Wriede-Morawski saw this meet as a chance to swim some of her racers outside their normal strokes, as a win was almost surely guaranteed.

“She saw [this] meet as an opportunity to do some off-events,” Hart said, “[because the] next couple weekends we are going to have to put up some points.”

Freshman Amanda Slaight also went on to lead a 1-2 win for Harvard in her first collegiate race, taking first place in her signature event, the 100-yard breaststroke just 0.25 seconds ahead of last year’s standout freshman, LeeAnn Chang.

Junior Jane Evans matched O’Connor’s two individual event wins, placing first in both the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard breaststroke with an easy win in the butterfly before leading a 1-2-3 finish in the breaststroke for the Crimson, handily besting Colling and Slaight.

Harvard’s top relay, comprised of senior Molly Ward, Pangilinan, senior Alli Bates and Slaight, also went on to win the 200-yard medley.

The Crimson women’s divers had a big night as well, sweeping the diving events with a win in both the one-meter and three-meter. Senior tri-captain Anne Osmun anchored the Harvard effort, taking first in the three-meter diving ahead of teammates Samantha Papadakis and Annika Giesbrecht. Giesbrecht then went on to clinch the deal by winning the one-meter diving, an event that she won the Ivy League championship in last year.

COLUMBIA

Harvard dismantled Columbia, winning 13 out of a possible 15 events in which it was entered.

But the real excitement during Sunday’s meet came when junior Noelle Bassi shattered the Crimson record in the 200-yard butterfly—previously 2:01:98—with her own first-place time in the event of 2:00:05.

The second place finisher was O’Connor, who ended up finishing a full five seconds beyond Bassi with a time of 2:05:36.