Jada Duncan, Anna Wetteland Lead UCLA to Big Ten Tri Sweep
Jada Duncan and Anna Wetteland won one individual race and two relays each as UCLA captured a Big Ten tri-meet against Purdue and Iowa.
The Bruins claimed wins of 180-120 over Iowa and 162.5-137.5 over Purdue at the meet Friday in Iowa City. Purdue prevailed, 178-122, over Iowa in the other match.
Wetteland won the 200 freestyle in 1:50.85 early in the meet, edging Purdue’s Caitlin Hurley by .03 seconds. Sora Koike was third and Meredith O’Grady fifth for the Bruins.
Duncan was second in the 50 free, then claimed the 100 butterfly in 54.17 seconds.
Duncan and Wetteland joined Claudia Yovanovich and Sarah Bennetts in winning the 200 medley relay in 1:39.98. Duncan led off with a time of 51.01 in the winning 400 free relay with Bennetts, Wetteland and Alexis Schaffer for a time of 3:22.14.
Yovanovich won the 100 back with a time of 55.08 seconds, and Olivia Sina recorded the win in the 200 back in 2:00.91. Bennetts followed with a win in the 200 breaststroke in 2:13.59 after finishing second in the 100 breast by .03 seconds, then 1,000-free runner-up Mia Bugarin won the 500 free one event later in 4:55.78.
Adele Sands won the 1,000 free for Purdue with Ella Dziobak third. Lucy Chen won the 100 breast, then Caroline Mallard (1:59.13) and Campbell Scofield went 1-2 in the 200 fly. Mallard finished second in the 100 fly.
Amie Perna finished second in both backstroke events, as was Lara Phipps in the 100 free, Chen in the 200 breast and Hurley in the 200 and 500 free.
Purdue got a boost in diving, with Avery Worobel sweeping the victories. She scored 379.00 on 3-meter and 315.35 on 1-meter, both in 1-2 results with Lucy Dovison.
Iowa’s Payton Flowers won the 50 free in 22.56, with teammate Rachel Dildine third. Flowers doubled up by going 50.17 to capture the 100 free. Olivia Swalley won the 200 individual medley in 2:03.84, with teammate Ariyana Nieckula second. Iowa was second in both relays, with Flowers part of both.