Purdue Women Sweep Notre Dame, Ohio State in Tri-Meet Action

Purdue’s Women’s Swimming & Diving team came out with wins against Ohio State and Notre Dame at home this weekend. That moves the Lady Boilermakers to 4-1 in dual meets so far this season. Full press releases, including final scores and results, can be found below.

Purdue Press Release:

Purdue women’s swimming and diving won both heats of seven of the 12 individual swimming events and swept the relays to defeat both Notre Dame and Ohio State in triple-dual action Saturday afternoon at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center.

The Boilermakers were a 167-133 winner against Ohio State and a 169-123 winner against Notre Dame, improving to 4-1 in dual meets this season. Purdue posted its seventh straight victory vs. the Fighting Irish.

The 50 free was the only swimming event in which the Boilermakers did not post a new team season-best time.

Allie Davis, Emily Fogle and Meagan Lim each won a pair of events and contributed to a relay victory. Davis and Lim also finished as the runner up in a third event.

Davis won the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:46.76 that was not only an NCAA provisional-qualifying time but also good for fourth best nationally entering the weekend. No other swimmer in the event posted a time faster than 1:51. She also won the 500 free (4:49.50) and was out touched by OSU’s Liz Li by just four hundredths of a second in the 100 free.

Fogle swept the breaststroke events, posting NCAA provisional-qualifying times (1:01.63, 2:15.04) in both events.

Lim swept the butterfly events with times of 55.35 and 2:00.86. She was also the runner up in the 200 individual medley.

In the diving well, Mary Beth Dunnichay and Morgan Meixner finished one-two on the 1-meter springboard.

Breanna Robinson and Grace Hernandez contributed to both relay winners. They teamed with Fogle and Lim on the 200 medley relay team to open the meet. Davis and Kaersten Meitzrounded out the victorious quartet in the 400 free relay. Meitz closed the race with a team-best split of 49.84, the only sub-50 second split by any swimmer in the event.

Individually, Meitz was part of a fantastic finish in the 1,000 free. She out touched OSU’s Lindsey Clary by 15 hundredths of a second, closing out the win despite an impressive final 50-yard split of 26.87 by Clary. Meitz’s time of 9:46.29 improved on her second-fastest mark in program history. About three minutes later, Meitz was back in the pool to compete in the 200 free.

Nika Karlina Petric won heat one of both the 200 and 500 free events. Other heat-one winners for Purdue included Haley Rowley (1000 free), Caroline Weigand (100 breast), Cady Farlow (200 breast), Lew Gerbrandt (100 fly), Emmy Rawson (200 fly) and Alex Clarke (200 IM).

Men’s divers from all three schools also competed Saturday. Joe Cifelli finished third in both springboard competitions for the Boilermakers.

Purdue returns to action Friday for a 5 p.m. co-ed dual meet with Iowa to open Homecoming Weekend on campus.

Team Scores
Purdue 167, Ohio State 133
Purdue 169, Notre Dame 123
Ohio State 176, Notre Dame 113

Ohio State Press Release:

The Ohio State women’s swimming and diving teams swam against Purdue and Notre Dame in West Lafayette on Saturday, finishing with 105 points in their second competition of the weekend. The Boilermakers’ 149 points were the most among the three teams, while Notre Dame managed just 27.

To kick off the meet, Purdue’s quartet of swimmers placed first in the 200 medley relay, ahead of the relay team of Liz Li, Rachael, Dzierzak, Ariana Bullard, and Annie Jongekrijg and their time of 1:43.17. Ohio State’s Lindsey Clary (9:46.44) was very narrowly edged out by Purdue’s Kaersten Meitz (9:46.29) in the 1000 freestyle to give the hosts another first place finish. Clary held the lead nearly two-thirds of the way through the race, but Meitz ended up on top to secure first-place points for the Boilermakers. Katy Lunchansky’s time of 1:51.47 in the 200 freestyle was good for second behind Purdue’s Alexa Davis.

The Buckeyes notched their first win of the afternoon in the 100 backstroke; Camey Rabold (55.15) outpaced Notre Dame’s Cather Mulquin (55.76), giving Ohio State a first-place finish and helping to close the gap a little between the Big Ten foes. Purdue would come back in the 100 breaststroke, placing the top-three swimmers in the event. Taylor Vargo (1:03.57) earned the top finish for the Scarlet and Gray in that event. The Boilermakers continued on with their impressive meet, with Meagan Lim finishing ahead of Meg Bailey (2:03.07) for the top spot in the 200 butterfly. Li (22.98) would regain points and some momentum for Ohio State in the 50 freestyle by placing first and also swimming the team’s fastest time in that event this season to head into the break. During that break, Hannah Thek placed fourth in the one-meter diving event for the highest Buckeye finish.

When the swimmers got back in the pool, Li (50.04) earned another first-place finish, this time in the 100 freestyle, matching her personal best from this season. Following that, Zulal Zeren helped continue Ohio State’s strength in backstroke events by winning the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:59.19.

Purdue got back on the winning track in the 200 breaststroke, with Emily Fogle edging out Amy Bopp (2:17.53), and then again in the 500 freestyle; Clary’s time of 4:52.20 was good for second-place. The final event before the second break was the 100 butterfly, where Purdue and Notre Dame placed the top-six swimmers. In the three-meter dive, Thek came back and won with a score of 307.90, her third first-place finish of the weekend.

Bailey nabbed Ohio State another victory in the 200 IM with a time of 2:03.84 in an outstanding effort.Purdue’s Lim held a lead halfway through the race, but Bailey’s second-half split times of 35.65 (breaststroke) and 28.49 (freestyle) helped her pull ahead. To round out the meet, the Boilermakers won the 400 freestyle relay, beating out Annie Jongekrijg, Kathleen Cook, Li, and Rabold’s time of 3:25.48.

Ohio State left with a 176-113 victory over Notre Dame, but a 167-133 defeat at the hands of its Big Ten counterparts.

The Buckeyes next event will be Nov. 6 against Denison University at McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.

Notre Dame Press Release:

In their second meet in as many days, the University of Notre Dame women’s swimming and diving team took a trip down to Purdue for a triple-dual meet with the Boilermakers and the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Irish lost to both teams, 169-123 against Purdue and 176-113 against Ohio State.

“Today played out exactly how I thought it would,” head coach Mike Litzinger says. “We wanted to test our girls in a scenario where we swam at night, and came back to compete the following day, to see how they responded. The results we saw today were par for the course, and now we as a coaching staff can make adjustments and improve for next time.”

Top performers included Catherine Mulquin (100 back, 2^nd, 55.76; 100 free, 4^th, 51.56), Alice Treuth (100 back, 6^th, 56.61; 200 back, 2^nd, 1:59.56) and Sofia Revilak (50 free, 4^th, 23.92; 100 fly, 2^nd, 56.00).

“I thought Alice and Sofia did a nice job; they responded up to the competition that we faced today,” continues Litzinger. “We want to keep moving forward with that kind of attitude and spirit.”

In diving, Lindsey Streepey added to an already impressive weekend of results, finishing third in the 1-meter (283.20) and second in the 3-meter (300.35). She won both events Friday.

The Irish are next in the pool against Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh, Nov. 6-7 at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center in Christiansburg, Va.

“I think Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh are well-coached teams, however, we match up very well with both groups,” admits Litzinger. “I think that meet will be a shootout, and whichever team comes ready to race, and ready to win will. It’ll be a knock down, drag out situation, but it will be fun; I’m looking forward to it. These scenarios of back-to-back races, combined with the weight training and boxing our girls have been doing, it’s all new for this team; it takes it’s toll. But the reality is we need our team to step up to the blocks ready to race, and being in these type of meets is helpful training for the postseason meets.
2015 Purdue Women vs. OSU and ND – Results

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