Swimmers Open with Uncommon September Highway Journeys – Purdue Boilermakers

Purdue Men’s Swimmers at Seminole Fall Classic
Day 1: Friday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. ET
Day 2: Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. ET
Morcom Aquatics Center / Tallahassee, Florida
Men’s Meet Field: Purdue, Florida State, West Virginia, Tampa

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Swimmers open their seasons with September highway journeys for the primary time as the boys break up their squad whereas becoming a member of the ladies in a return to the Team Be Better Invitational within the state of Michigan.

The Boilermakers despatched 12 males to Tallahassee for the Seminole Fall Classic, which options 20 swimming occasions contested over two days (Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 10 a.m.). It shall be contested outside at Florida State’s Marcom Aquatic Center. West Virginia and Tampa joined Purdue and FSU among the many four-team discipline. All groups will enter two swimmers within the scoring warmth of every occasion. Tampa was the 2024 NCAA Division II nationwide champion and completed because the runner-up final season.

Women’s swimming is touring its full roster to Ann Arbor for the Boilermakers’ second look on the Team Be Better Invitational, which is slated for Friday at 3 p.m. They’ll be joined by 15 swimmers from Purdue’s males’s roster. Michigan-based faculties Calvin University and Hope College joined the University of Michigan as co-founders of the meet and are again within the combine this season.

The Purdue Divers opted to make their season debut on the Boilermakers’ residence opener – the annual Dan Ross Indiana Intercollegiate on Saturday, Oct. 11.

The Team Be Better Invitational options 13 occasions and is contested as a non-scoring exhibition whereas that includes a pair of mixed-gender relays in addition to different distinctive (and enjoyable) occasions like a 7×25 thriller shootout and 50 freestyle underwater with fins.

Active Boilermakers Abby Marcukaitis (100 again), Caitlin Hurley (5×100 free), Pat Broderick (5×100 free) and Ana Rojas (50 free underwater with fins) all received occasions on the Team Be Better Invitational final 12 months when it was hosted by the Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics membership on the Holland Aquatic Center.

Holland is the hometown of the late Ian Miskelley, a former University of Michigan swimmer. The meet was based within the fall of 2022 and contested in Grand Rapids (2022) and Ann Arbor (2023) the primary two years. It is held as a profit meet supporting the Team Be Better Foundation, which was began by Miskelley’s mother and father after his demise within the fall of 2020. The Team Be Better Foundation is an advocate of psychological well being consciousness, offering family-centered psychological well being consultations and contain help, schooling and advocacy for adolescents and younger adults.

Marcukaitis (Middleville) is among the many Purdue girls’s 5 Michigan natives returning to their residence state Friday. Grace Ackerman (Grand Haven), Brooklyn Beauch (Byron Center), Ashley Lund (Rockford) and Kate Stanley (Bloomfield Hills) are additionally natives of the Great Lakes State. The Boilermakers return to Michigan for Halloween Weekend once they sq. off towards Oakland and Cincinnati in a two-day triple twin on the Oakland University Aquatic Center in Rochester.

ORDER OF EVENTS AT TEAM BE BETTER INVITATIONAL
200 Medley Relay
100 Fly
100 Back
100 Breast
50 Free
500 Free (5 separate 100s final 12 months)
100 IM
200 Mixed Medley Relay
200 Free
25 Mystery Shootouts (1 Heat)
200 Mixed Free Relay
50 Free Underwater with Fins
400 Free Relay