2024 Purdue Invite
Whereas they didn’t win any of the 4 relays on day certainly one of their hosted invitational, a lift from Purdue’s elite diving crew and depth in a couple of choose occasions gave them the lead after day one of many 2024 Purdue Invite.
Ladies’s Standings
- Purdue – 349
- FIU – 196
- Southern Illinois – 140
- Grand Canyon – 121
- Illinois State – 111
- McKendree – 78
Males’s Standings
- Purdue – 299
- Grand Canyon – 251
- McKendree – 186
- Southern Illinois – 137
The boys’s and girls’s crew swam reverse relays on day 1 of the meet.
Grand Canyon kicked off the meet with a 3:08.89 win within the 400 medley relay, which is already a second-and-a-half quicker than they had been final season.
The opening leg (Alex Volkov, backstroke – 46.36) and shutting leg (Guillermo Carrey, freestyle – 43.19) return from final 12 months’s relay, however the ‘Lopes have swapped out the center two legs and that’s the place a lot of the distinction got here. Harper Houk break up 52.80 on breaststroke and Jasu Ovaskainen break up 46.54 on the fly leg.
D2 McKendree was not far behind in 3:09.43, which is the highest time in D2 thus far this season by about four-tenths of a second over Tampa’s 3:09.94 on Wednesday evening in South Carolina.
McKendree sophomore Christian Davidson gained the five hundred free in 4:24.52, which was about two seconds higher than the most effective time that obtained him third ultimately 12 months’s GLVC Championship meet.
The hosts from Purdue had a tough begin to the evening (four-and-a-half seconds again within the 400 medley relay), however Matheo Mateos obtained the Boilermakers their first win of the evening within the 200 IM in 1:46.29. He was the Summit League Champion in each IMs final season at Lindenwood, however transferred to Purdue after his previous program was minimize.
A 30.84 breaststroke break up was the distinction for Mateos over McKendree’s Vova Gavrysh, who completed 2nd in 1:46.67. That was a 3 second drop for Gavrysh, a freshman from Ukraine.
Southern Illinois’ Alex Santiago gained the 50 free in 19.45, which was about three tenths higher than he was on the A3 Invitational final week (SIU is pulling double invite responsibility). That’s shy of his lifetime greatest from final 12 months’s MAC Championships the place he swam 19.12 to win the convention title and qualify for the NCAA Championships,
The final particular person occasion of the evening was the diving, and that’s the place Purdue took an enormous chunk out of the competitors. Led by a Meet File of 429.75 from Max Miller, the Boilermakers divers went 1-2-3-4-5 on 1-meter, scoring 82 factors within the occasion. Grand Canyon scored 45 factors, McKendree scored 13 factors, and Southern Illinois didn’t carry their divers.
McKendree completed the evening with a dominant win within the 800 free relay, profitable in 6:27.10. They had been second on this race at NCAAs final season. This time put them precisely 8 seconds forward of the runners-up from Purdue.
Ladies’s Recap
Very like the lads’s meet, the ladies’s meet noticed quite a lot of winners.
Among the many prime swimmers to observe all through the week is Southern Illinois and All-America Celia Pulido. At this meet final season, she had her breakout 51.8 within the 100 again to e book a second-straight journey to NCAAs earlier than dropping a second to complete seventh in March.
She obtained her first crack of the evening within the session-ending 400 medley relay, splitting 52.10 on the backstroke leg of Southern Illinois’ profitable 400 medley relay (3:34.85). She mixed with Olivia Herron (1:00.09), Maria Padron (53.38), and Susana Hernandez (49.28) to smash the college document of three:37.46 set within the crew’s twin meet towards UIC earlier this season. The varsity document coming into the season was 3:38.56, and the document heading into final season was simply 3:41.26, that means they’ve dropped over 6 seconds off the previous document in a season-and-a-half.
Purdue completed 2nd in 3:34.85 together with a 48.25 anchor from Lara Phipps that was the quickest within the area by greater than a second.
SIU additionally time-trialed a 200 medley relay, touching in 1:37.21 – simply .04 seconds shy of the NCAA “B” customary.
Herron, the lone non-Central American on that profitable 400 medley relay, additionally gave the Salukis a person win on the day. She gained the 200 IM in 1:57.70. That’s about half-a-second slower than she was final week, however is a part of a complete 3.4 second drop thus far this season in that occasion. This time would have simply gained final 12 months’s Missouri Valley Championship (2:01.16).
Maria Brunlehner completed 2nd in 1:59.26, charging again on the sphere with a 26.99 closing 50 break up.
It was FIU that opened the session with a win within the 200 free relay, ending in 1:30.31. The quartet of Tawannah McLemore (23.00), Jessica Shpiklo (22.43), Diana Santamaria (22.26), and Oumy Diop (22.62) mixed for this system’s greatest time because the 2021-2022 season.
They as soon as once more held off a tough late cost from Phipps and Purdue; she anchored the Boilermakers’ runner-up 200 free relay in 22.08 as they completed in 1:30.71.
Whereas Phipps was the most effective sprinter on the relays, she was simply seventh within the particular person 50 free (23.18). That occasion was gained by her teammate Hannah Hill in 22.70.
After lacking the second-half of final season, Hill opened the season with a lifetime greatest of twenty-two.32 within the 50 free, and together with a prelims 22.61 has now been below her 2023-2024 season greatest 5 instances.
Purdue obtained a pair of ladies’s particular person swimming wins on day one, with Kate Mouser taking the five hundred free in 4:46.11. She dropped half a second to steer a 1-2-3-4-5-6-8 end for the Boilermakers’ greatest efficiency of the day. Caitlin Hurley additionally went a greatest time of 4:47.64 for 2nd place.
That point strikes Mouser into seventh all-time in Purdue program historical past.
The lone interrupter of an all-Purdue A-Closing was Jocelyn Zgola in seventh with a greatest time of 4:58.89.
The Purdue ladies had been nearly as dominant as their males on the boards, going 1-2-3-5 led by a Meet File rating of 389.18 from Sophie McAfee.
