The first day of individual events began at the Women\u2019s Big Ten Championships on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Here is a look at who made the finals:<\/p>\n
Michigan\u2019s distance crew continued its strong performance one day after winning the 800 freestyle relay. G Ryan<\/strong> took the top seed in 4:37.62, ahead of Wisconsin\u2019s Cierra Runge<\/strong> (4:38.00) and Michigan teammate Yirong Bi<\/strong> (4:38.32).<\/p>\n Ohio State\u2019s Lindsey Clary<\/strong> took the fourth seed (4:38.37), followed by Kaersten Meitz<\/strong> (4:38.42), Wisconsin\u2019s Danielle Valley<\/strong> (4:39.66), Michigan\u2019s Rebecca Postoll<\/strong> (4:39.97) and Northwestern\u2019s Valerie Gruest Slowing<\/strong> (4:40.23).<\/p>\n Indiana\u2019s Lilly King<\/strong> took the top seed in the 200 IM, finishing in 1:55.49, just ahead of Michigan\u2019s Siobhan Haughey<\/strong> (1:55.67) and Clara<\/strong> Smiddy<\/strong> (1:57.73).<\/p>\n Ohio State\u2019s Meg Bailey<\/strong> took the fourth seed (1:58.10), followed by Iowa\u2019s Emma Sougstad<\/strong> (1:58.36), Northwestern\u2019s Melissa Postoll<\/strong> (1:58.54), Wisconsin\u2019s Jessica Unicomb<\/strong> (1:58.82) and Indiana\u2019s Christine Jensen<\/strong> (1:58.85).<\/p>\n Ohio State\u2019s Zhesi Li<\/strong> took the top seed in the 50 freestyle (21.75), followed by Wisconsin\u2019s Chase Kinney<\/strong> (22.08), Michigan\u2019s Catie DeLoof<\/strong> (22.28), Penn State\u2019s Kaitlin Saloky<\/strong> (22.39), Wisconsin\u2019s Emmy Sehmann<\/strong> (22.41), Minnesota\u2019s Danielle Nack<\/strong> (22.45), Northwestern\u2019s Mary Warren<\/strong> (22.46) and Michigan\u2019s Rachel Bukowski<\/strong> (22.54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first day of individual events began at the Women\u2019s Big Ten Championships on Thursday. Here is a look at who made the finals: 500 freestyle Michigan\u2019s distance crew continued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":229067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,49262],"tags":[58786,25950,55664,24698,33089,40674,26119,58120,56727,29620,42783,26040,44092,55669,44099,60398,33017,34412,60023,58715],"class_list":["post-241338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-meet-recaps","tag-2016-17-big-10-conference-swimming-and-diving-coverage","tag-chase-kinney","tag-christine-jensen","tag-cierra-runge","tag-clara-smiddy","tag-danielle-nack","tag-emma-sougstad","tag-emmy-sehmann","tag-jessica-unicomb","tag-kaitlin-saloky","tag-lilly-king","tag-lindsey-clary","tag-mary-warren","tag-meg-bailey","tag-melissa-postoll","tag-rachel-bukowski","tag-rebecca-postoll","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-valerie-gruest","tag-valerie-gruest-slowing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n200 IM<\/h3>\n
50 freestyle<\/h3>\n