Pangilinan also led a one-two finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, her main event, with sophomore LeAnn Chang taking second place. Both swimmers recorded provisional NCAA qualifying times.

The only other swimmer to win an event in the second two days of the meet was freshman Bridget O’Conner who lead a one two finish in the 100-yard butterfly with senior Allison Bates finishing in second.

Senior Molly Ward swam well, placing in the top four in two events. Ward finished third in the 200-yard freestyle behind two Princeton swimmers and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle.

Junior Michelle Bright brought home the second-place points with a time only one-hundredth of a second behind her own school record and led a three swimmer finish in the 200-yard backstroke followed by senior Emily Stapleton in third and freshman Lindsay Hart in fourth.

“In every event we had so many people swimming together from Harvard and that really helped,” O’Conner said. “I think knowing that they all train together made them so confident going in and seeing each other they pushed each other harder.”

The only event in which the Crimson did not place in the top four was the 100-yard backstroke. Stapleton was the highest Harvard finisher in sixth place.

But it wasn’t just the swimmers who finished out the meet well as the divers also put fourth strong performances. Freshman Samantha Papadakis finished fourth in the three-meter dive followed by senior Anne Osmun who finished in seventh.

Although Harvard excelled in many areas in this meet, it failed to secure a first-place finish in its last three relays, consistently finishing second to the Tigers. The Crimson finished first in the 400-yard medley relay on day one, but ended up being disqualified.

“I mean technically in the score books we didn’t win but we did beat everyone by a significant amount in that relay,” O’Conner said. “In everyone else’s mind we did win that relay and it was our best relay—we knew that we had the four fastest girls in the Ivy League.”

Harvard started out day three by taking second place in the 200-yard medley relay with the team of Ward, Bates, Pangilinan, and freshman Amanda Slaight.

At the end of the day the Crimson once again finished second to the Tigers in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a team composed of Weisenthal, Wilson, Bassi, and junior Erin Mulkey.

Harvard ended out the meet on day four in second place behind Princeton once again in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Ward, Slaight, Mulkey, and Colling made up the relay team.

But no one was disappointed with the loss in the relays as the team was too excited about their win at Ivies after so many years of trying.

“We were not really focused on breaking [Princeton’s] streak but on starting our own,” Bassi said. “We are hoping to start a new tradition and to keep the trophy and the Ivy Championship title at our pool.”

—Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu.