Purdue Men’s Swimming and Diving Posts Season Bests In Win Over Western Kentucky

WEST LAFAYETTE – The Purdue men’s swimming and diving team won nine of 16 events and recorded numerous season bests en route to a 165-132 win over visiting Western Kentucky on Friday night.

Purdue Press Release

Highlighted by team season-best times/scores in eight of the nine event wins, Purdue men’s swimming and diving was victorious in dual meet action against Western Kentucky, 165-132, Friday evening at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center.

The Boilermakers won nine of the 16 events, headlined by sweeping the breaststroke and diving events. Purdue was also victorious in the 100 and 1000 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 butterfly and the 400 free relay.

Marat Amaltdinov won the 200 breast with a sub-two minute time of 1:59.20 in his official team debut, already moving into seventh place in program history. Steele Johnson’s winning score of 461.33 in 3-meter diving was not only 50 points better from rest of the field, but also good for second in program history.

Lyam Dias posted a team season-best time of 54.88 while beating WKU’s German standout Fabian Schwingenschlogl and Amaltdinov in the 100 breaststroke.

Jamie Bissett recorded Purdue’s top score of the season in 1-meter diving (380.40) and surpassed 400 points again while finishing second to Johnson on 3-meter.

After being out touched by a tenth of a second by WKU’s Cody Reul in the 200 free, Josh Ehrman won the 100 free and anchored the Boilers’ 400 free relay team to victory in the second half of the meet. Stephen Seliskar, Guillermo Blanco and Jes Stephens also contributed to the relay win to close out the night. Ehrman’s anchor split of 45.82 helped Purdue take a race that was too close to call going into the final exchange.

Individually, Seliskar won the 100 back (49.51) and took second in the 100 fly (49.22), posting team season-best times in both events. Danny Conway finished the night with a victory in the 200 fly to go along with runner-up showing in the 500 free and 200 IM.

Nate Hopkins posted Purdue’s first victory of the night by winning the 1000 free with a team season-best time (9:26.03).

The Boilermakers are idle from competition next week before returning to action Nov. 20-23 for the final meets of the fall semester. The full roster of swimmers will travel to the Minnesota Grand Prix (Nov. 20-22) while the divers will join the Purdue women at the Ohio State Invitational (Nov. 21-23).

Western Kentucky Press Release

The WKU men’s swimming and diving team held its own against its second Big Ten opponent in a week, as the Hilltoppers fell in a close 165-132 contest at Purdue.

WKU put up solid performances for the night, including six individual winners. Tyler Groneck notched two of those first-place finishes, as he clocked in at 21.36 in the 50 free and 48.80 in the 100 fly.

Cody Reul took the top time in the 200 free with a time of 1:40.84. In the 200 back, Seth Musser hit the wall first in 1:50.10 while Aymeric Le Corno added first-place points after finishing the 500 free in 4:36.25. Fabian Schwingenschlogl closed out the individual wins, notching a time of 1:51.63 in the 200 IM.

The 200 medley relay of S. Musser, Schwingenschlogl, Groneck and John Myhre also tabbed a win, opening the competition with the fastest time of 1:30.87.

In the 1000 free, Le Corno and Russ Bryant went 2-3, as Le Corno finished in 9:29.36 and Bryant in 9:34.15. S. Musser took second in the 100 back, closing the event in 49.62, while Schwingenschlogl finished the 200 breast in a second-place time of 2:04.21. Myhre also had a second-place finish with a time of 46.51 in the 100 free.

The men will get a small break until the Louisville Invite on Nov. 21-23 while the women have a tri-meet against Vanderbilt and Tulane in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 8 beginning at 11 a.m. CT.

For all the latest news and information on WKU swimming and diving, visit WKUSports.com or follow the program on Twitter via @WKUSwimDive and @WKUDiving or Facebook with WKU Hilltopper Swimming and Diving.

Results: Western Kentucky vs. Purdue

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