{"id":296679,"date":"2018-02-16T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T23:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=296679"},"modified":"2018-02-16T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:52:36","slug":"liz-li-splits-third-fastest-50-free-ever-lilly-king-rattles-american-record-at-womens-big-tens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/liz-li-splits-third-fastest-50-free-ever-lilly-king-rattles-american-record-at-womens-big-tens\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Li Splits Third Fastest 50 Free Ever; Lilly King Rattles American Record at Women’s Big Ten’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third night of Women’s Big Ten’s from Ohio State featured a very fast night of swimming with Ohio State’s\u00a0Liz Li\u00a0<\/strong>and Indiana’s\u00a0Lilly King\u00a0<\/strong>stealing the show. Li won the 100 fly and split one of the fastest 50 frees ever in the 200 free relay as the Buckeyes won three total events with Li and\u00a0Meg Bailey\u00a0<\/strong>winning individual titles.<\/p>\n

Indiana’s\u00a0Lilly King\u00a0<\/strong>also rattled her own American Record she set at this meet a year ago. King beat out one of the fastest 100 breast fields in history with two other girls swimming under 58 seconds.<\/p>\n

Michigan’s\u00a0Siobhan Haughey\u00a0<\/strong>and Wisconsin’s\u00a0Beata Nelson\u00a0<\/strong>also won individual titles on Friday night in Columbus a\u00a0the Women’s Big Ten Championships.<\/p>\n

Michigan has put themselves in the driver’s seat to win a third straight team title while Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio State will be battling for second place.<\/p>\n

Results<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Scores:<\/p>\n

 Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 14                     \r\n \r\n  1. Michigan, University of           926   2. Indiana University                787\r\n  3. University of Minnesota           742   4. Ohio State University             725\r\n  5. Wisconsin, University of, Madi    514   6. Purdue University                 454\r\n  7. Northwestern University           349   8. Pennsylvania State University     294\r\n  9. Iowa, University of               284  10. University of Nebraska-Lincoln    253\r\n 11. Rutgers University                251  12. University of Illinois            135\r\n 13. Michigan State University         132<\/pre>\n
100 Fly<\/h3>\n
Ohio State senior\u00a0Liz Li\u00a0<\/strong>won her second event of the meet with a very strong 50.48 in the 100 fly final. Li won the 50 last night<\/a>\u00a0in one of the fastest times ever swum in the event. Li will also be swimming NCAA’s in her home pool and will be one of the toughest swimmers to beat in the 50 and the 100 fly at NCAA’s in four weeks.<\/p>\n
Also in that race were two good times from Minnesota’s\u00a0Danielle Nack\u00a0<\/strong>(51.15) and Indiana’s\u00a0Christie Jensen\u00a0<\/strong>(51.28).<\/p>\n
Indiana’s\u00a0Shelby Koontz\u00a0<\/strong>(52.28), Michigan’s\u00a0Vanessa Krause\u00a0<\/strong>(52.42), Michigan’s\u00a0Emma Cleason\u00a0<\/strong>(52.81), Purdue’s\u00a0Taite Kitchel\u00a0<\/strong>(52.93) and Penn State’s\u00a0Madison Hart\u00a0<\/strong>(53.03) also swam in the championship final.<\/p>\n
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50.48 \u2714\ufe0f
Title No. 2 of Meet \u2714\ufe0f
7th Career Big Ten Title \u2714\ufe0f#GoBucks<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wHnIaf9FLE<\/a><\/p>\n
— Ohio State Swim\/Dive (@OhioStSwimDive) February 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n