Gophers Set Sights on Ladies’s Big Ten Championships

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – The University of Minnesota ladies’s swimming and diving program is about to compete on the 2026 Women’s Big Ten Championships this week, combating with dwelling pool benefit on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatics Center.

 

MEET INFORMATION

 

Minnesota vs. Big Ten Championships

Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatics Center

Wednesday, Feb. 18 – Saturday, Feb. 21

4:00 PM / 10:00 AM / 10:00 AM / 10:00 AM

Minneapolis, Minn.

 

Last Time Out

 

The Gophers are 10-2 general and 4-1 in opposition to convention competitors all through the 2026 season. Their most up-to-date staff wins got here on the B1G triple twin in opposition to Northwestern and Purdue, the place the Gophers completed off the occasion with a 242.50-110.50 win over the Boilermakers and a 186.00-166.00 win over the Wildcats.

 

Vivi Del Angel swept the ladies’s diving occasions held on the Morgan J. Burke Aquatics Center. Vivi tallied a rating of 339.65 within the ladies’s 3-meter and a rating of 331.30 within the ladies’s platform to take dwelling the victory in each occasions.

 

Katie McCarthy tallied three particular person occasion wins and a brand new pool report over the 2 days of competitors on the Norris Aquatics Center. McCarthy tallied a brand new pool report with a time of 9:40.49 to win the ladies’s 1000 free, and would go on to take first place finishes within the ladies’s 400 IM and 500 free.

 

Two different Minnesota athletes gained occasions on the way in which to the ladies’s staff victories, with Kamdyn Periat successful the ladies’s 100 again and Morgan Thomas taking the ladies’s 100 fly.

 

Big Ten Championships Info

 

All the motion on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center is about to kick off on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 4:00 PM, with occasions lasting till Saturday, Feb. 21.

 

See full schedule of occasions under.

 

Wednesday, Feb. 18

• 200 medley relay

• 800 medley relay

 

Thursday, Feb. 19

• 100 fly

• 400 IM

• 200 free

• 100 breaststroke

• 1-meter diving

• 200 free relay

 

Friday, Feb. 20

• 100 again

• 200 breast

• 500 free

• 50 free

• 3-meter diving

• 400 medley relay

 

Saturday, Feb. 21

• 200 IM

• 1650 free

• 100 free

• 200 fly

• 200 again

• Platform diving

• 400 free relay