{"id":635180,"date":"2026-01-17T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=635180"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:15:18","slug":"iowa-womens-swimming-and-diving-defeats-illinois-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/iowa-womens-swimming-and-diving-defeats-illinois-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Women’s Swimming and Diving Defeats Illinois, Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa Women’s Swimming and Diving Defeats Illinois, Nebraska<\/strong><\/p>\n

A unique Big Ten women’s meet this weekend featured teams from Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska, with the swimming events taking place in Champaign, Ill., while diving was in Iowa City, Iowa. Overall, the Hawkeyes were victorious with scores of 193-179 over Illinois and 216-156 over Nebraska while Nebraska beat Illinois 195-178.<\/p>\n

Iowa’s first victory came in the 400 freestyle relay, with the team of Payton Flowers<\/strong>,\u00a0Audrey Olen<\/strong>,\u00a0Rachel Dildine<\/strong> and Jenna Kerr<\/strong> winning by more than a second in 3:25.53. Kerr added an individual win in the 200 free (1:51.01), with Flowers taking command of the 50 free (23.00) and 100 free (50.94).<\/p>\n

Iowa’s Lainey Woodward<\/strong> won both springboard diving events, with scores of 318.65 on 3-meter and 312.05 on 1-meter. The team of Flowers, Dildine, Olen and Ella Jean Kelly<\/strong> came in first in the 200 free relay to conclude racing, posting a time of 1:33.50.<\/p>\n