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Purdue Scores 2027 Verbal From Juniors West Finalist Lily Wiles  NEW COMMIT: Purdue University has scored a verbal commitment for Fall 2027 from Lily Wiles out of The Woodlands, Texas. Wiles is a Junior National qualifier who excels in freestyle, butterfly and IM. Regarding her commitment, she said:...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Stanford Freshman Ellie Cole Sets NCAA Record on Platform Ellie Cole’s first NCAAs as a member of Stanford is going to be hard to top. The Australian Olympian scored 399.80 points, topping the NCAA record from 2013 and beating the field by more than 50 points, a huge boos...

Adam Soldati Steps Down as Purdue Diving Coach after ALS Diagnosis; David Boudia to Replace Him Purdue diving coach Adam Soldati announced Thursday that he will step down from the Boilermakers after being diagnosed with ALS. Soldati will be replaced by arguably his most accomplished pupil, Olympic g...

NCAA Men's Championships: Texas A&M’s Emilio Trevino Wins Platform Title Texas A&M was close to a platform title last year with two divers in the top four. It took a new face to get them over the top. Emilio Trevino earned the program’s first NCAA platform title Saturday night, his score of 465.30 t...

Indiana swimming and diving cruised to victory Saturday, sweeping Purdue inside the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center. The No. 6 women defeated Purdue 189-11. The No. 2 Indiana men won 236-64. Twenty-one different Hoosiers won individual events, and the Indiana men swept the swimming events in a deci.....

Big Ten Men’s Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Gal Groumi Sets Up Big Day for Michigan It was a big day for Michigan in the first morning sessions of the Big Ten Men’s Championships on Thursday. Led by Gal Groumi securing the top seed in the 200 individual medley, Michigan has seven A finalists across ...

Big Ten Men’s Championships, Night 2: Gal Groumi Sets Meet Record in 200 IM After a stellar morning swim, there was no catching Michigan’s Gal Groumi in the men’s 200 IM Thursday night at the Big Ten Championships. Groumi went 1:40.48, routing the five-year-old meet record set of Indiana’s Vini Lanz...

The Ball State women won the annual Dan Ross Indiana Intercollegiates on Saturday at Purdue University. In the women's meet, Ball State won with 584.5 points. Purdue was second with 583, followed y IU Indianapolis (252.5), UIndy (167), Butler (165), Southern Indiana (129), Evansville (101), Valparai...

Washington State Hires National Teamer Kaersten Meitz as Assistant Coach Washington State on Thursday announced the hiring of Kaersten Meitz as an assistant coach. The former distance standout at Purdue will work with the Cougars’ distance group. Meitz was a four-time All-American at Purdue. She won...

Purdue Invite: SIU’s Celia Pulido Sets School, Meet Record on Wild Second Day Southern Illinois’s Celia Pulido lowered her school record in the women’s 100 backstroke and set the Purdue Invitational record on Friday, the second day of the three-day meet. Purdue leads the women’s competition with 712...

The University's of California's Ryan Hoffer applied his stamp to the sprint field at the NCAA Men's Championships in winning the 50 freestyle. That swim, a dominant 18.33 in a 1-2 with teammate Bjorn Seeliger, left no doubt as to his sprint chops. Saturday morning's swim in the 100 free reinforced ...

The Purdue women's swimming and diving team defeated Illinois in a Big Ten dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 10, at home. The Boilermakers won the meet 194-101. The Boilermakers started with a win in the 200 medley relay as Abby Marcukaitis, Meghan Sharma, Lara Phipps and Hannah Hill got to the wall in 1:...

Purdue Alumni Endow Scholarship in Honor of Swim Coach Dan Ross Three Purdue swimming alumni have contributed lead gifts in the formation of the Daniel P. Ross Swimming and Diving Scholarship Endowment, the school announced Tuesday. The three swimmers – Ross Croasdell, Larry Becker and Dan Moll – na...

2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships: Indiana Medley Relay Goes Record-Setting 3:00.95 Indiana has two wins in three relays at the 2022 Big Ten Men’s Championships to find the Hoosiers in second place overall. The latest set a conference and meet record. The Hoosiers blasted a time of 3:00.95 in the 400...

Morgan J. Burke, a captain of the Purdue swim team in the 1970s who became his alma mater’s athletic director for nearly three decades, died Monday. Burke was 68 years old. He was diagnosed with amyloidosis a year ago. Burke served as the athletic director from 1993-2016. He retired from the positio...

Purdue Brings Alumna Caitlin Hamilton Back as Associate Head Coach Purdue University on Tuesday announced the return of alumna Caitlin Hamilton as an associate head coach for the women’s team. Hamilton swam for Purdue head coach John Klinge from 2009-13 and now returns on his coaching staff. “I’m th...

Olympic Diving Silver Medalist Steele Johnson Retires Olympic diver Steele Johnson, who won silver at the Rio Olympics in 2016, retired from the sport on Monday. Johnson posted a lengthy video to social media, where he has in recent years been creating content aimed at a diving audience while contin...

Purdue Sweeps In-State Rivals at Dan Ross Invitational The Purdue Boilermakers hosted eight schools from around Indiana Saturday in a meet dedicated to retired men's head coach Dan Ross. The Purdue women scored 865 points in the meet, annihilating the score of the next-best team, Indy (329), while t...

Chris Guiliano Leads Notre Dame to Win Over Purdue; Boilermaker Women Beat Fighting Irish In an all-Indiana battle in South Bend, the Purdue women held home-pool advantage over Notre Dame by a 165-135 margin while Chris Guiliano, the sprinter who jumped onto the U.S. World Championship team in a sur...

Lara Phipps, Hannah Hill Sprint Purdue Past Rutgers Lara Phipps and Hannah Hill helped Purdue earn a 191-106 win over Rutgers in a Big Ten meet Friday night in Piscataway. Hill and Phipps were on both of Purdue’s winning relays. Phipps anchored the 200 medley in 22.98, then led off the 400 free rela...