The Wisconsin men’s and women's swimming and diving teams swept Hawaii on Saturday.  The men were victorious 181.50-117.50 to improve to 4-3 in dual meets this season while the the No. 19 Badger women’s swimming and diving team improved to 6-1 in dual meets this season with their 183-107 win.

“I was really pleased with how we swam tonight,” said head coach Eric Hansen.

“I was happy with how we swam as a team in this time of heavy training,” said head coach Eric Hansen. The Badgers are currently in the midst of their winter training session in Hawaii.

In the first event of the meet, the 200-yard medley relay, Wisconsin got things started in a big way, taking first and second place. The team of Maggie Meyer, Rosie Morahan, Christine Zwiegers and Jackie Vavrek finished in a time of 1:42.79.

There were four UW swimmers who won two events in the dual meet. Gabby Maddalena notched two first-place finishes as she won the 1,000-yard freestyle in a new season-best time of 9:59.81 and the 500-yard freestyle (4:55.55).

Like Maddalena, Rosie Morahan also won two events, the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.83) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:20.93).

Candice Peak joined Maddalena and Morahan as she took first in the 200-yard backstroke (1:59.25) and 200-yard IM (2:04.55). Both of Peak’s times set new season-bests and her 200 backstroke time also met an NCAA “B” time standard.

“Some people have made large steps in our winter training and Candice (Peak) made a big step tonight as she won two events,” commented Hansen.

Meyer later won the 100-yard backstroke (55.38), meeting another NCAA “B” time and Jen Illescas placed second in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.59).

UW swept the 200-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle races. Katie Imhoff-Smith won the 200-yard butterfly in a “B” time of 2:01.39 as Illescas (2:02.64) and Jenny Gelden (2:03.63) took second and third. Imhoff-Smith later won the 100-yard butterfly (55.68) and was the fourth swimmer to win two events in the dual.

In the 50-yard freestyle, Vavrek touched first in a time of 23.42, followed by Hannah McClurg (23.68) and Zwiegers (23.94).

Vavrek and McClurg swapped finishes in the 100-yard freestyle, as it was McClurg who won in a time of 51.20 with Vavrek following closely behind at 51.62. Illescas completed the sweep with her third place time of 52.42.

In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the final swimming event of the meet, UW’s team comprised of McClurg, Vavrek, Gergen and Meyer won in a “B” time of 1:33.43.

On the one-meter springboard, Jenny Hawkins took second with 231.30 points. Emily Cheffins placed third (226.95) and Ciara Rinaudo finished fourth (225.60). Rinaudo was UW’s only competitor on the three-meter board competition and took third with 218.45 points.

Derrick O’Donnell, Eric Johnson, Scott Rice and Kyle Sorensen earned UW’s first points in the meet as they combined to win the 200-yard medley relay in a time of 1:33.18.

Similar to the women’s squad, the men’s team had multiple swimmers who won two individual events.

Johnson recorded two wins in both the 100-yard breaststroke (57.60) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:05.23). Mike Hopkins notched first place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke (51.86) and 200-yard backstroke (1:49.63).

Rice won the 100-yard (49.74) and 200-yard (1:50.20) butterfly events.

O’Donnell later won the 200 IM (1:53.91) and took second in the 100-yard backstroke (52.12). Michael Desautels placed first in the 100-yard freestyle (45.51) and took second in the 200-yard freestyle (1:40.67).

Sorensen was UW’s top finisher in the 50-freestyle as he took second in a time of 20.86.

Hansen was pleased with Luke Lengfeld’s performance. “Luke Lengfeld, as a freshman, has really come around and had a good meet tonight,” expressed Hansen.

Lengfeld took second place in the 500-yard freestyle (4:36.83) and third in the 1,000-yard freestyle (9:34.07), setting a new season-best time.

In the final swimming event of the meet, the 200-yard freestyle relay, Sorensen, Desautels, Phil Davies and Conner Andrews won with a time of 1:22.69.

On the one-meter springboard, Caleb Percevecz finished third (304.90 points), Louis Schiff took fourth (273.15) and Al Morrison placed fifth (233.00). Percevecz again claimed third on the three-meter board (280.30 points) as Bryan Weinstein took fourth (245.10) and Dan Smith placed fifth with 216.80 points.

The Badgers return to action February 1-2 at the Big Ten Quad Duals in West Lafayette, Ind.