ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell men's swimming and diving team got straight to business on the first day of the 2022 Ivy League Championships on Wednesday at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool, breaking the Big Red school record in the 800 freestyle relay.

The team of Ricardo Martinez, Jake Lawson, Joseph Gurski, and Dominic Edwards dropped nearly 10 seconds from its seed time of 6:40.72, touching the wall in a school record 6:30.94 to finish sixth overall. This marks the second-straight Ivy Championship that the Big Red has broken its 800 freestyle relay record, as the time surpasses the previous school record of 6:31.25 that was set by Paige daCosta, Martinez, Chris Kostelni, and Lawson in 2020.

The Big Red's 200 medley relay team also cracked Cornell's all-time top-10 list on Wednesday, as daCosta, Jacob Bass, Jeremy Marcin, and Sebastian Wolff touched the wall in 1:27.33, a time which sits fourth all-time in the Cornell record books. The team ultimately placed seventh.

Through the first day of competition, Cornell sits in seventh place with 94 points, just four points back of sixth-place Penn (98), six points back of fifth-place Columbia (100), and eight points back of fourth-place Brown (102).

The second day of the 2022 Ivy League Championships will commence on Thursday at 11 a.m. for the prelims session.