Northwestern wipes out UChicago in first meet again from trip Northwestern swimming and diving dominates College of Chicago

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Jumping into pool competitors for the primary time since November, Northwestern left UChicago consuming its bubbles on the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center Saturday.

Fresh out of crew coaching camp in Puerto Rico throughout winter break, the Wildcats swam to a 222-76 victory on the No. 25 males’s aspect and a 247-45 level efficiency on the No. 21 ladies’s aspect. NU received 29 out of the 32 occasions on the meet. 

Individually, a number of NU swimmers topped the scoreboards. 

In lane 5 of the 200-yard breaststroke, sophomore swimmer Joshua Staples was miles forward of the competitors — he bested his earlier prime time of 1:55.46 from the ’Cats’ November meet in opposition to Notre Dame with a 1:54.93 efficiency Saturday. 

On the ladies’s aspect, the ’Cats received first place in each contest. Graduate pupil Ekaterina Nikonova received each of her particular person occasions within the 50-and 100-yard freestyle. Sophomore Zoe Nordmann additionally earned prime honors, prevailing within the 200 butterfly and 500 freestyle. 

The ’Cats additionally cleared the highest 5 spots in each 1-meter and 3-meter ladies’s diving occasions, with junior Chloe Sharpe scoring 297.53 for the 1-meter and sophomore Isabella Chen scoring 325.50 for the 3-meter. The males’s diving crew additionally took the highest 5 spots in the identical occasions. 

Junior Adam Cohen received each the 1-meter and 3-meter occasions with performances of 385.58 and 350.40, respectively.

All three of NU’s ladies’s 200-medley relay groups completed on the prime of the rostrum. The A-team, which completed first with a 1:38.59 time, was composed of Nikonova, sophomore Grey Davis, freshman Teya Nikolova and senior Lindsay Ervin. Two of the ladies’s 400-yard freestyle relay groups additionally positioned first and second of their warmth. 

NU’s males’s 200-medley relay crew, led by the quartet of Staples, junior Stuart Seymour, junior Connor Schuster and sophomore Oliver Kós, completed in 1:25.15, the quickest time of their warmth. UChicago, nevertheless, took first place within the males’s 400-yard freestyle relay with a 2:59.11 time. NU’s Schuster, Seymour, Kós and junior Cade Duncan, swam a 2:51.62, however have been excluded from the occasion standings as a result of they have been marked for an exhibition swim. 

With these performances, the ’Cats prolonged their historic successful streak in opposition to UChicago in twin meets, producing comparable outcomes to the final time they confronted off in opposition to the Maroons. In their most up-to-date contest in 2025, NU received 231-63 on the lads’s aspect and 247-50 on the ladies’s aspect.

NU will subsequent host Wisconsin’s No. 19 males’s and No. 15 ladies’s groups for Senior Day at Norris Aquatics Center on Jan. 17. 

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