Daily News | Two Penn swimmers named Ivy champions, with Lia Thomas breaking meet and second pool record
BOSTON — Two University of Pennsylvania swimmers were named Ivy League champions Friday night, including senior Lia Thomas, who won herin as many days, and broke an Ivy League meet and her second Harvard University Blodgett Pool record.
Buroker currently holds the Penn record in the 1,000-yard free, about four seconds faster than her showing Friday. Kalandadze, an Ardmore native and Lower Merion High School grad, finished second with a time of 9:50.05. She and Buroker embraced across the pool lines following the finish.The evening continued with Thomas, following a strong showing in the morning preliminaries, expected to take first in the 200 freestyle — a race in which she currently holds this year’s top NCAA time.
Thomas, who is a transgender woman, had broken the Blodgett Pool record before the final competition even began with a preliminary race time Friday morning of 1:44.91, just 0.09 seconds faster than the pool record set in 2018. She reestablished that pool record by more than a second in the finals. The Quakers have been a presiding force in the championship freestyle races, taking three of the top four spots in Friday’s 1,000 free.and broke a Blodgett pool record in that race. Buroker, of Trumbull, Conn., came in second.
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