Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
- November 1, 2024
- Madison, WI
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Scores
- Girls: #13 Wisconsin, 201 – #23 Minnesota, 99
- Males: NR Wisconsin, 158 – #21 Minnesota, 142
- Full Outcomes
Males’s Meet
The lads’s meet got here all the way down to the ultimate relay, and Wisconsin took first and third to safe their win over the beforehand undefeated Golden Gophers. Minnesota held an early lead due to their strengths on the boards; sophomore YuTong Wang gained each the 1-meter and 3-meter, main a 1-2 end with Andrew Bennett within the former.
However the Badgers struck again as quickly because the swimming session began, profitable the primary 4 occasions within the pool. That included the 1000 freestyle (Yigit Aslan, 8:52.64), 200 medley relay (1:25.61), the 100 backstroke (Nathan Welker, 47.11), and the 200 freestyle, the place Chris Morris and Luukas Vainio went 1-2.
Morris’ profitable time of 1:33.65 is a brand new pool file and lifelong finest, undercutting the 1:33.77 he swam at 2024 Massive Tens. He additionally gained the 100 freestyle, beating Kaiser Neverman 43.16 to 43.29.
Neverman snapped the win streak with a win within the 100 breaststroke, clocking 53.39 to edge forward of teammate Joe Rudd (53.50). Freshman Jacob Johnson supplied much more momentum for Minnesota within the subsequent occasion, as he broke his 200 butterfly college file for the second time this season.
Johnson first took over the usual at Minnesota’s Oct. 11 twin in opposition to Military with a 1:42.41. He reduce .71 seconds off that mark along with his 1:41.70 efficiency in Madison. The swim can also be a brand new lifetime finest for Johnson, the #7 recruit in his highschool class, breaking his earlier better of 1:42.29, set earlier than he arrived on campus. He added one other win later, posting 46.18 within the 100 fly for the stroke sweep.
Wisconsin returned to the win column in definitive trend, sweeping the highest three locations within the 50 freestyle, with Taiko Torepe-Ormsby profitable in 19.49.
Dominik Mark Torok’s 200 breaststroke win (1:55.51) forward of a Minnesota 2-3 end was the Badgers final occasion win till the ultimate relay as Minnesota went on a run of its personal. Along with Johnson’s 100 fly win, Bar Soloveychik claimed the five hundred free (4:17.80). Neverman gained a decent race within the 200 IM with a 1:44.45, holding off Torok (1:44.56) and Morris (1:44.78).
Vainio (43.82), Ben Wiegand (43.57), Torepe-Ormsby (42.88), and Nico Butera (43.81) clinched the victory for the Badgers by profitable the 400 freestyle relay in 2:54.08. The Badgers transfer to 2-1 on the season, whereas Minnesota is now 4-1.
Girls’s Meet
The Badgers dominated the ladies’s meet, profitable all 14 occasions within the pool. 5 athletes gained two occasions every—sophomore Hailey Tierney swept the dash freestyle occasions, handing over season-bests of twenty-two.05/48.59. Three ladies had been sub-49 seconds within the 100 freestyle, as Tierney held off Minnesota freshman Livi Wanner (48.75) and teammate Abby Carlson (48.92).
Freshman Maggie Wanezek, junior Hazal Ozkan, and senior Mackenzie McConagha swept the strokes for the Badgers. Wanezek gained the backstrokes, first slicing a hundredth off her lifetime finest to win the 100 in 50.96. She’s the fourth lady to interrupt 51 seconds in yards this season. Wanezek doubled up by profitable the 200 again in 1:51.75, 1.30 seconds forward of her teammate, two-time Olympian Phoebe Bacon. This was Bacon’s solely particular person swim of the meet as she scratched the 100 backstroke.
Ozkan managed the breaststrokes, main a 1-2-3-4 end within the 100 breast for the Badgers with a 1:00.28. She then gained the 200 breast in 2:10.02. Lastly, McConagha gained each the 100/200 butterfly, clocking 52.90/1:56.63.
Abby Carlson, Paige McKenna, and Maddie Waggoner took care of the longer freestyle occasions. Carlson gained the 200 free (1:44.70), McKenna the five hundred free (4:43.33), and Waggoner the 1000 free (9:35.48).
The spotlight of Minnesota’s day got here on the diving boards, the place junior Viviana Del Angel earned a sweep of her personal. She gained the 1-meter board with 299.03 factors and the 3-meter with 313.80. The Minnesota ladies at the moment are 5-1 on the season, whereas the Badgers are 2-0.
Up Subsequent
The Minnesota ladies host Iowa subsequent Friday and the boys are off from competitors till the Minnesota Invitational from Dec. 4-7. The Badgers break up up as effectively; the diving squad and the boys’s crew head to the Georgia Invite from Nov. 20-23, whereas the ladies’s crew heads to the Texas Invite from Nov. 20-21.
