‘Cats Publish Prime-5 Convention Occasions at Notre Dame, Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – In two highway meets, the Northwestern swimming and diving groups put up aggressive outcomes, posting a number of instances good for prime 10 within the nation, however got here up quick within the ultimate scores.

The Wildcats collected 5 occasion finishes that earned top-five standings within the Big Ten of their second weekend of the season. Despite the highest instances, robust opponents left each the boys’s and girls’s packages to take their first losses of the season at Notre Dame and Michigan.

The males’s efforts have been led by Joshua Staples, Oli Kos and Diego Nosack, profitable a mixed six particular person occasions. On the ladies’s facet, Zoe Nordmann set a brand new private finest within the 1000 free, whereas Kat Nikonova contributed to 2 relay victories.

Friday’s competitors noticed the ladies’s workforce declare each relay occasions, in addition to the highest two finishes within the 1000 free, 100 breast, and 50 free particular person occasions. Both the boys’s and girls’s free relays at Notre Dame earned spectacular Big Ten positions. For the occasion, the boys’s time (2:53.18) is available in second, and the ladies’s (3:17.15) takes the fourth quickest time within the convention.

The males’s facet received 5 occasions throughout Saturday’s motion, which was stuffed with tight margins and 6 top-three particular person finishes for the ladies.

“Really proud of the way that our team faced this early-season challenge,” director of swimming and diving Rachel Stratton-Mills stated. “Racing on back-to-back days against quality competition is tough, but we had some strong performances that we’re really excited to build on as the season continues.”

Individually, Staples swam a dominant 8:58.35 for the 1000 free occasion, good for the second-fastest within the Big Ten, and eighth within the nation. Nordmann’s 1000 free additionally scored her second within the convention standings, with a 9:45.69 end. Stuart Seymour’s efficiency within the 100 again (45.92) is available in at No. 4 within the Big Ten.

 

OCT. 24 SCORES

Men

Notre Dame 158.5 – Northwestern 141.5

Women

Notre Dame 151.00 – Northwestern 149.00

OCT. 25 SCORES

Men

Michigan 186.00 – Northwestern 114.00

Women

Michigan 205.00 – Northwestern 92.00

Michigan 193.00 – UCLA 103.00

UCLA 165.5 – Northwestern 134.5

HOW IT HAPPENED (NOTRE DAME)

Grey Davis, Teya Nikolova, Nikonova and Lindsay Ervin got here in at 1:39.16 to say the first-place end within the girls’s 200 medley relay. In the ladies’s 400 free relay, Ervin, Nikonova, Amy Pan and Audrey Yu clocked in at 3:17.15 to win and enhance on their newest time.

For the second weekend this season, Nordmann collected two particular person wins for the Wildcats. This time, the sophomore claimed victories within the 1000 free (9:45.69) and the five hundred free (4:46.30).

Margaret Papanicholas earned a Northwestern victory within the 100 breaststroke, clocking in at 1:01.63, whereas additionally ending second within the 200 breaststroke (2:13.14).

Individually, Ervin represented NU within the 50 and 100 free occasions, inserting first (22.49) and second (49.28), respectively.

First-year Gretchen Braun picked up her first particular person win as a Wildcat within the 200 breaststroke occasion (1:57.78), and likewise collected a third-place end within the 100 breaststroke (54.52).

On the boys’s facet, the Wildcats received each relays, together with a tie on the prime within the 400 free. Seymour, Staples, Kos and David Gerchick posted a 2:53.18 end, a top-10 time this season throughout the nation.

NU quartet Gerchick, Staples, Gal Shlegel and Seymour got here in first within the 200 medley relay (1:26.17) early within the meet.

The Wildcats additionally claimed particular person victories within the 100 and 200 breaststroke occasions, 200 fly, 100 and 200 again, and the 100 IM. Staples paced the Wildcats with two occasion wins, because the sophomore claimed the 100 and 200 breaststroke occasions with instances of 53.09 and 1:55.46, respectively.

In addition to his relay contributions, Seymour additionally picked up a first-place end within the 100 backstroke, clocking in at 45.92, good for No. 13 within the nation this season.

Nosack claimed the 200 fly occasion, ending first with a time of 1:44.50. Kos collected a victory in 1:44.08 within the 200 again race, whereas Chris Leung posted a 48.47 time for the 100 IM win. Leung’s exhibiting in opposition to Notre Dame notched him at No. 4 within the 2025-26 season’s nationwide occasion standings.

On the diving facet, Chloe Sharpe led the Wildcats, ending within the prime three within the 1-meter, with a rating of 271.05. The junior additionally earned third place within the 3-meter (287.85).

Ryan Augustine and Adam Cohen had the very best diving scores of the day for NU, as Augustine claimed second within the 3-meter (365.40) and Cohen took second within the 1-meter (350.63).

HOW IT HAPPENED (MICHIGAN)

The Wildcat males challenged No. 10 Michigan, claiming 5 occasion victories earlier than falling 186-114. Staples received the 1000 free (8:58.35), whereas Gerchick took the highest spot with a time of 47.51 within the 100 again, adopted by Kos (47.97).

Tona Zinn earned second place within the 200 breaststroke with a time of two:01.55. Nosack punched a 3:49.99 end within the 400 IM for a win.

Cohen claimed his season-best rating of 375.90 along with his 3-meter dive, additionally incomes his second victory this yr. Kyle Ly took first place within the 1-meter occasion with a rating of 320.25.

On the ladies’s facet, three ‘Cats claimed top-five finishes within the 1000 free occasion. Papanicholas completed within the prime three of the 100 breaststroke (1:01.71), adopted by Nikolova (1:01.89).

Nordmann completed in second within the 500 free, clocking in at 4:48.33.

UP NEXT

Northwestern will host the Duke Blue Devils in a two-day matchup on the Norris Aquatics Center. The motion begins on Friday, Nov. 7, at 5 p.m. CT, and continues on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 11 a.m. CT.