As Northwestern honored its seniors within the pool Saturday, the boys’s and ladies’s swim groups placed on a record-setting present.
The No. 25-ranked males’s crew upset No. 19 Wisconsin 161-133, whereas the No. 22 ladies’s crew fell simply quick in opposition to the No. 15 Badgers 154-146.
In the second race of the day, the boys’s 400 medley, the Wildcats’ quartet of junior Stuart Seymour, sophomore Joshua Staples, junior Connor Schuster and sophomore Oliver Kós swam a time of three:05.27. The mark broke the Norris Aquatics Center document by over two seconds.
Another facility document fell within the 200 free relay, with the identical crew profitable the race with a time of 1:16.98. The record-breaking day continued when junior Cade Duncan edged out Seymour by .07 seconds within the 100 freestyle, as each of them beat the earlier facility document and Duncan bested Matt Grevers’ program document from 2007 to take the title.
Junior Diego Nosack additionally added to the brand new data. His second-place end within the 400 particular person medley was adequate to interrupt the ability document as properly.
Records continued to fall in males’s diving, as junior Adam Cohen broke his personal document from final weekend’s meet in opposition to UChicago with a rating of 409.75. His teammate, junior Ryan Augustine, completed second.
Despite the loss, the ladies’s 200 free relay crew of seniors Lindsay Ervin and Audrey Yu, graduate pupil Ekaterina Nikonova and junior Amy Pan certified for the NCAA match with a pool-record time of 1:28.06.
The record-breaking get together added one other visitor when junior Sydney Smith set a pool document for the ladies’s 200 freestyle with a time of 1:45.25.
Seymour continued his robust day by claiming one other victory, this time within the 100 backstroke. Staples and Schuster additionally received their particular person races, the 100 breaststroke and 50 freestyle, respectively.
The ’Cats’ subsequent meets are Jan. 30 in opposition to Minnesota and Jan. 31 in opposition to Purdue.
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