ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell women's swim and dive will open the 2023 slate with a two-day home meet against Yale. The meet will kick off with a diving session on Tuesday, January 10 at 5 p.m., followed by a Wednesday, January 11 swim meet that is set to kick off at 11:00 a.m.

A Look Backwards:

The Big Red are returning to play after a historical performance at the Zippy Invitational in December. Cornell broke six school record at the meet on its way to a fifth place finish.

Familiar Faces:

One half of the Cornell 2022 NCAA Zone A Diving duo returns for her senior season. Elise Jendritz finished last season at 29th in Zone A. Jendritz holds the second-best score in the 1-Meter dive in Cornell history at 261.55.

Senior Melissa Parker also returns to the mix, after notching four separate top-10 times in Cornell history, in addition to being a part of all five-relay all-time top-10 Cornell times from the 2021-22 season.

At the Helm:

Patrick Gallagher enters his seventh season as Head Coach of Women's Swimming on Friday. Gallagher has coached 127 individual and 38 relay times that rank in the top-10 all-time at Cornell, including 12 individual and four relay school records.

Up and Coming:

Gallagher added 10 freshmen ahead of the new season in Emilie Boisrenoult, Madeline Ferreira, Audrey Holden, Kate Li, Ella Martinez, Lindsay Grace McCormack, Elina Natarajan, Quinn Rinkus, Claire Vroom, and Jungmin Yoon. The newcomers join the sophomore class of Allie Danko, Schuyler DuPont, Amanda Petersen, Alex Syrkin, Sophia Tsai, Lexie Vanderloo, and Victoria Zhang to total 17 underclassmen.

The Series Against Yale:

The series against the Bulldogs is owned by Yale, who boasts a 37-2 lead all-time. Cornell will look to use its momentum from the Zippy Invite to pull of the first win in the series this century.

Up Next:

The Big Red take on Columbia in a home meet on Sunday, January 15 at 1:00 p.m.