After losing its matches at Harvard, the swimming team hits the pool in Philadelphia, Pa. to take on Penn and Princeton this weekend.

Both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell to Brown by close margins in their last matches of the regular season.

The men's and women's swimming and diving teams saw mixed success in three dual meets before and during the winter break. 

Early season races against Ivy foes Penn and Princeton produced mixed results for the men's and women's swimming teams.

The men's and women's swimming teams are ready to take on Ivy powerhouses Harvard and Princeton this coming season.

After a month-long hiatus, the men’s swimming and diving team will be back in action today as it kicks off a three-day meet against the Ancient Eight at DeNuzio Pool in Princeton, N.J.  The men finished with a 7-2 mark in the dual meet season –– Cornell’s best record since its undefeated 10-0 season in 2006-07.

This weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team effectively made a splash at the Ivy League championships, propelling itself to a solid fifth place finish overall. The fifth place effort was the Red’s best overall finish since the 1995-96 season.

In fact, the Red surpassed expectations in more ways than one, as it smashed the previous school record of 551 points in a meet and replaced it with a new record of 734 points.

The women’s swimming and diving team will travel to Harvard tonight to compete in the 2010 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championship at Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, Mass. The Red (3-6, 2-5 Ivy), coming off its best dual meet season in the Ancient Eight since 1997-98, will look to improve on its eighth-place finish last year.

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams saw mixed results over the break, competing against Yale, Colgate and Columbia. The men (6-2, 4-2 Ivy) looked in midseason form, sweeping all three contests, while the women (2-6, 1-5 Ivy) still struggled to put points on the board, falling in all three matches.

The women’s swimming and diving team ended their season at the Ivy League Championship meet this past weekend against their Ancient Eight foes. The Red finished last amongst the competition. Harvard won the season-ending meet with a score of 1583.5.

The Red had some solid performances throughout the three-day meet, performing far better than it had in past years. Primarily due to a strong freshman class, which was able to provide some knockout performances under pressure, the Red was able to overcome a lack of experience in the pool.

“When you looked at the leader board at the end of the night you saw a lot of freshman and sophomores standing up there, and that’s really the future of this team,” said senior Mary Cirella.