Eleanor Sun Pool Record Leads Princeton Over In-State Rival Rutgers

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Eleanor Sun Pool Record Leads Princeton Over In-State Rival Rutgers

Eleanor Sun set a Rutgers pool record in the women’s 200 IM to lead Princeton to a 176-124 win in the fifth annual Battle for the Cannon Trophy between New Jersey’s premier programs.

Sun won two individual events. Her time of 1:59.51 in the 200 individual medley set the DeNunzio Pool record. She also won the 200 backstroke in 1:57.58 and was second to teammate Heidi Smithwick in the 200 butterfly, both Sun’s time of 1:58.83 and Smithwick’s winning 1:57.85 accounting for the only two NCAA B cuts of the day.

Beyond Sun, Princeton turned the meet with its sprint depth. Ela Noble clocked in at 22.89 seconds to win the 50 freestyle, a 1-2-3 result with Veronique Rossouw and Isabella Korbly following. Noble was second in the 100 free to Jenna Walters’ time of 49.96, with Nicole De Pree third.

Noble, De Pree, Smithwick and Rossouw helped the Tigers swim away with the 200 free relay. Sun swam breaststroke on the winning Tigers’ medley relay, with Korbly, Margaret Hayes and De Pree.

Smithwick went 4:54.10 to win the 500 free ahead of teammate Emily Appleton. Walters added a second win in the 200 free in1 :49.04, with Rossouw third. Korbly was also third in the 200 back. Rossouw won the 100 fly in 54.64. Charlotte Martinkus swept diving for the Tigers, the only one to top 300 points on 1-meter, followed by a score of 346.35 on 3-meter.

Rutgers made a meet of it, especially early. Isabela Valle (10:14.76) and Orian Gablan went 1-2 in the 1,000 free. Sofia Bartoloni reigned in breaststroke, she and Molly Urkiel going 1-2 in both races. Rutgers went 1-2 in three of the first four races, with the 1,000 free and 100 breast surrounding Martyna Piesko’s swim of 55.09 in the 100 back. But Bartoloni’s wins were the only two in the final 10 events for the Scarlet Knights.

The Princeton men on Friday defeated Columbia, 168-132. Freshman Patrick Dinu went 42.91 to erase a Percy Uris Natatorium record set by Harvard’s Dean Farris. Mitch Schott went 1:42.22 in the 200 fly to slice 5.5 seconds off Columbia’s pool record and add the second-fastest time in program history.

Hey look! It’s another pool record!

Patrick Dinu break’s Dean Harris’s (Harvard ’22) in the 100 free⚡️ pic.twitter.com/A1Lujp58az

— Princeton Swimming & Diving (@PUCSDT) November 15, 2024

Dinu swam breaststroke on a pool-record 200 medley relay that went 1:29.94 and anchored a 400 free relay that went 2:54.26 to claim the standard. Schott led off the latter. Logan Noguchi and Yanning Zhang were on both, Zhang going 47.13 for the 100 back pool record.

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