8 Boilermakers Set to Race at America Games in Peru – Purdue Boilermakers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Eight Purdue swimmers have crossed the equator for a possibility to compete for the United States on the FISU America Games, the western hemisphere version of the World University Games being held in Peru’s capital metropolis.

Swimming at Lima’s Centro Acuático de la Videna (Videna Aquatic Center) is ready for July 24-26, with the identical occasions contested in each the morning preliminaries (11 a.m. ET) and night finals (8 p.m. ET). The opening ceremonies for the FISU America Games – which options 14 sports activities – have been held Tuesday night. The Videna Aquatic Center additionally hosted the swimming occasions on the 2019 Pan American Games.

Competing for the UniUSA Team in Lima are Boilermakers Kate Mouser, Lara Phipps, Adele Sands and Campbell Scofield from the ladies’s roster in addition to Maxwell Blume, Biko Hooper-Haviland, Evan Mackesy and Blake Rowe from the lads’s crew.

Scofield changed Keira Kask on the roster after Kask needed to withdraw for medical causes that prevented her from flying. Kask gained the 200-meter butterfly and posted three podium finishes at Indiana Senior Long Course Championships the weekend of July 17-19 in Indianapolis.

UniUSA is the U.S. delegation for the World University Games; it introduced the 44 swimmers chosen to compete on the America Games in April. When the rosters have been introduced, Purdue’s eight whole swimmers have been essentially the most of any college and the Boilermakers have been the one college to have a number of alternatives from each genders.

Purdue’s entries are slated to compete in at the very least 5 particular person occasions on all three days in Lima. Five relays are additionally on the schedule, together with a pair of mixed-gender occasions.

BOILERMAKERS IN PERU
• Maxwell Blume – 50m, 100m, 200m Breast
• Biko Hooper-Haviland – 200m Fly, 800m Free
• Evan Mackesy – 200m & 400 IM, 200m Fly
• Kate Mouser – 200m & 400m IM
• Lara Phipps – 50m Fly & 200m Free
• Blake Rowe – 100m Fly, 200m Back
• Adele Sands – 800m & 1500m Free
• Campbell Scofield – 50m, 100m, 200m Fly

Mackesy is one among three males on the UniUSA crew that additionally certified for the 2026 NCAA Championships. Hooper-Haviland (200-yard fly), Mackesy (400-yard IM), Rowe (200-yard again) and Phipps (400-yard free relay) all set Purdue information this previous season. Scofield eclipsed the ladies’s file within the 200-meter butterfly with a time of two:13.00 on the Eric Namesnik Memorial Invitational the weekend of June 26-28 at Michigan’s Canham Natatorium in Ann Abor.

FISU is the Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (International University Sports Federation), the organizing physique of the biennial World University Games. FISU launched the America Games in 2018. Similar to the quadrennial Pan American video games, it options athletes from North, Central and South America.

The Boilermakers historically have illustration within the aquatic occasions on the World University Games, most lately by 5 student-athletes on the 2025 WUG in Germany. The Purdue Divers gained a pair of medals in synchronized occasions. Divers Steele Johnson and Ben Bramley represented USA Diving and the Boilermakers on the 2019 Pan Am Games in Peru. The nation can also be set to host the Pan Am Games once more in July 2027.

In the approaching weeks, Purdue can also be set to be represented on the Central American and Caribbean Games, USA Swimming’s Toyota National Championships, Speedo Junior National Championships and European Aquatics Championships.

MORE UPCOMING LCM MEETS OF NOTE
• Central American & Caribbean Games (July 28-Aug. 1 in Santo Domingo) – Nate Thomas for Jamaica (Free/Fly)
• USA Swimming’s Toyota National Championships (July 28-Aug. 1 in Irvine) – Dylan Burau (Back), Jonny Hines (Distance Free), Alex Hotta (Back/Fly)
• USA Swimming’s Speedo Junior National Championships (Aug. 3-7 in Irvine) – Matt Rose (Distance Free)
• European Aquatics Championships (Aug. 10-16 in Paris) – Jānis Dzirkalis for Latvia (Sprint Free)

PURDUE’S DAILY SCHEDULES IN LIMA
Prelims at 11 a.m. ET, Finals at 8 p.m. ET
2-hour time distinction between Lima & USA’s Eastern Time Zone
Results can be added under as they grow to be out there

Friday, July 24
• 800m Free (Top-Seeded Heat in Finals) – Adele Sands, Biko Hooper-Haviland
• 50m Breast – Maxwell Blume
• 100m Fly – Campbell Scofield, Blake Rowe
• 400m IM – Kate Mouser, Evan Mackesy
• 200m Free – Lara Phipps
• 4x100m Free Relay (Mixed Gender) – TBD
Saturday, July 25
• 4x100m Medley Relay – TBD
• 200m Back – Blake Rowe
• 100m Breast – Maxwell Blume
• 200m Fly – Campbell Scofield, Biko Hooper-Haviland, Evan Mackesy
• 4x200m Free Relay – TBD
Sunday, July 26
• 4x100m Medley Relay (Mixed Gender) – TBD
• 1500m Free (Top-Seeded Heat in Finals) – Adele Sands
• 200m Breast – Maxwell Blume
• 50m Fly – Lara Phipps, Campbell Scofield
• 200m IM – Kate Mouser, Evan Mackesy
• 4x100m Free Relay – TBD