2024 Purdue Invite
A deep Purdue girls’s staff used one other distance freestyle occasion to drag away from the sector on Saturday on the ultimate day of their hosted invite whereas a top-heavy Southern Illinois program might have picked up one other qualifier.
On the boys’s facet, in the meantime, even with out a single day three win, Grand Canyon overtook the hosts Purdue to lock up the staff title.
Remaining Staff Scores
Girls:
- Purdue – 1,326.5
- Florida Worldwide – 737
- Grand Canyon – 476.5
- Southern Illinois – 449
- Illinois State – 361
- McKendree – 199
Males:
- Grand Canyon – 949
- Purdue – 924
- McKendree – 746
- Southern Illinois – 422
Girls’s Recap
After backstroker Celia Pulido locked up an NCAA invite within the 100 again on Friday, her teammate Olivia Herron might have accomplished the identical on Saturday night within the 200 breaststroke.
She received the race by two-and-a-half seconds, touching in 2:09.13. That broke her personal Missouri Valley Convention File of two:11.60 set a search in the past on the A3 Invite and likewise put her well-under the time that it took to get invited to the NCAA Championships within the final two seasons.
That doesn’t assure her an invitation, because the final two years had been a little bit of a regression from 2022, the place the invite time was 2:09.15, however it does give her a great shot at changing into the second Saluki swimming qualifier for 2025. In response to our analysis, the final time that occurred was in 1987 when the staff had three All-People (Wendy Rick, Karen McIntyre, and Lisa Reinke).
NCAA Invite Instances
| EVENT (SCY) | 2020 INVITE TIME | 2021 INVITE TIME | 2022 INVITE TIME | 2023 INVITE TIME | 2024 INVITE TIME | Change |
| 200 breast | 2:10.12 | 2:10.37 | 2:09.15 | 2:09.68 | 2:09.55 | -0.13 |
Herron beforehand received and set MVC Data within the 200 IM (1:57.70) and 100 breast (1:00.17 prelims) earlier within the meet.
Pulido additionally turned a triple particular person winner on Saturday, punching a “B” minimize of 1:53.67 to win the ultimate by 1.2 seconds over Purdue’s Abby Marcukaitis. Pulido was as quick as 1:52.3 at NCAAs final yr.
Marcukaitis’ swim was a brand new finest time by greater than two seconds, clearing the 1:56.96 that she swam finally yr’s Large Ten Championships for seventeenth place. 1:54s traditionally make A Finals at Large Tens (though the addition of USC and UCLA will shake issues up) and Purdue had no swimming A Finalists finally yr’s Large Ten Championships.
Marcukaitis led 5 Purdue swimmers into the highest eight in that 200 again, indicative of their depth all through the meet and the ultimate session. That included a 1-2-3 end within the 1650 free, headed by Reagan Mattice in 16:31.13 – a 5 second enchancment on her lifetime finest.
Her teammate Adele Sands was proper together with her for the primary 800 yards or so earlier than Mattice started powering away for a 12-second margin of victory.
Purdue bought one other win within the girls’s 100 free when Hannah Hill completed in 49.49, simply out-touching Maria Brunlehner of Grand Canyon (49.54). Hill beforehand received the 50 free earlier within the meet in 22.70.
Boilermaker freshman Campbell Scofield gave Purdue their third, and remaining, win of the meet on Saturday within the 200 fly, profitable in 1:58.55. That’s her finest time by seven-tenths of a second and strikes her to seventh on the varsity’s all-time record.
Southern Illinois capped the night time with one other relay win, this time within the 400 free relay. They took a decent battle over Purdue by a margin of three:18.70 to three:18.87. The 2 groups had been by no means separated by greater than .22 seconds on the finish of any leg of the relay, they usually had been solely .02 aside on the remaining change. From there, Susana Hernandez break up 49.45 to carry off Purdue’s Adele Sands on the anchor and safe a win within the final race of the meet.
FIU was third in 3:21.49, however a 49.36 break up from Diana Santamaria, whereas Illinois State bought a 49.84 anchor break up from Mia Snow on their Sixth-place relay.
The most effective break up of the occasion, although, went to Grand Canyon’s Maria Brunlehner, who anchored their fifth place relay in 48.97.
Males’s Recap
Within the males’s meet, it was depth that once more made the distinction – however in a really completely different manner. Grand Canyon had a 5-point deficit headed into the ultimate day of competitors, however even with out an occasion win had been capable of overcome Purdue for the meet title – for instance, that they had half of the highest 8 within the session opening males’s mile.
Among the many occasion winners, Southern Illinois’ Alex Santiago capped his meet with a 3rd win, this time within the 100 free. He touched in 42.32, which knocks a tenth off the perfect time he swam to win the MAC Championship final season. It additionally breaks the Missouri Valley Convention File in that league’s return to males’s swimming competitors after a few many years absent.
Santiago beforehand received the 50 free and 100 fly. His 100 free was the closest to an invitation customary based mostly on final season, the place a 42.19 was the slowest time invited.
He then wrapped his meet with a 42.15 anchor of SIU’s profitable 400 free relay (2:53.17). That was a second dash free relay win for the Salukis.
D2 program McKendree College, which positioned 4th finally yr’s nationwide championship meet, continued to point out up large towards a discipline of Division I opponents. They grabbed two extra wins on the ultimate night time of the meet, led off by South African sophomore Christian Davidson within the 1650 free.
He received in 15:17.67, nearly 14 seconds away from the sector. That’s a brand new finest time that will have positioned him seventh finally yr’s D2 Championship meet.
Jackson Lustig received the 200 fly in 1:41.54, which is quicker than the time he received the NCAA D2 title with final season. His 2023 title-winning time of 1:40.54 is the D2 file.
Whereas the Purdue males couldn’t dangle on for the staff win, they did get in just a few final blasts that paint a vibrant future. Freshman Blake Rowe received the 200 again in an NCAA “B” customary of 1:43.12. His finest time popping out of highschool was 1:44.77.
That’s a Purdue freshman file and climbs him to 4th in this system’s all-time depth chart.
Junior Max Blume, in the meantime, received the 200 breaststroke in 1:56.95, greater than a second away from the sector. That’s simply .02 seconds shy of his finest time. He’s among the many Boilermakers who has thrived most below second yr head coach Alex Jerden, dropping nearly two seconds on this occasion final yr as a sophomore.
