Led by five multiple-event winners, Purdue women’s swimming and diving was victorious in all 16 events in a 199-94 season-opening dual meet victory against Miami (Ohio) Friday evening at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center.
The Purdue men also competed Friday. The divers dominated the springboard events to open up a 32-6 lead that will carry over to the Oct. 30 Purdue-Miami men’s dual in Oxford. The swimmers competed against each other in an intrasquad meet Friday. The Gold Team won eight of the 11 individual events to emerge victorious, 140-101.
Freshman Abby Jagdfeld led all competitors by winning three individual events – the 50, 200 and 500 free – in her collegiate debut. Her high school teammate Kaersten Meitz already broke the 10-minute mark (9:58.33) while winning the 1,000 free in her first collegiate race. In doing so, she moved into ninth place in program history.
In her first college meet since the Purdue Invitational in November 2012, Emily Fogle was victorious in the 100 breaststroke. Fellow seniors Francesca Marr (200 breast and 200 IM) and Rhiannon Sheets (100 free and 200 fly) were also among the Boilers’ multiple-event winners.
Mary Beth Dunnichay swept the diving events and Hannah Manger opened her sophomore campaign with a sweep of the backstroke events. Alex Todd won the 100 butterfly and joined Kylie Vogel, Fogle and Manger on the victorious 200 medley relay team to open the meet.
Meagan Lim (100 back and 200 IM), Nika Karlina Petric (200 and 500 free) and Vogel (50 free and 100 fly) each finished as the runner-up in a pair of events.
For the men, USA Diving national champion Steele Johnson won from the 3-meter springboard in his collegiate debut. His score of 422.40 is already good for fourth in program history. Jamie Bissett won from the 1-meter springboard and finished second to Johnson on 3-meter.
Guillermo Blanco (200 fly and 200 IM), Filip Bujoczek (200 and 500 free) and Stephen Seliskar (100 back and 100 fly) for the Gold Team in the men’s intrasquad. Blanco and Seliskar also teamed up with Lyam Dias and Adam Johnston on the victorious 200 medley relay team to begin the meet.
Alex Toetz (200 back) and Dias (100 breast) were individual winners for Gold as well. Alumnus Danny Tucker competed for the Black Team and swept the 50 and 100 freestyle sprints, posting a time of 19.96 in the 50.
The Boilermakers close out their season-opening weekend Saturday with the annual Indiana Intercollegiates meet, which will feature 11 colleges from the around the state this year.
Miami University women’s swimming and diving team opened up its 2014-15 season with a loss at Purdue one Friday evening at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center, 199-94.
There were no individual event wins for the RedHawks, but sophomore Stephanie LeMire led the way for Miami with three individual second-place events in the 100 breast (1:04.09), 200 breast (2:19.86) and 200 IM (2:07.25). She also was a part of the second-place finishing 200-yard medley relay team with sophomore Elise Campbell, junior Emma Szczupakiewicz and junior Sara Krueger. They finished with a time of 1:43.48.
Elise Campbell was one of five swimmers to earn second-place points for the RedHawks. She finished second in the 100 free with a time of 52.38. Elise Campbell also swam on Miami’s fastest 400-yard freestyle relay, which finished in second place with a time of 3:35.94. Also on the relay team was Marquiss, Krueger and Rohr.
Other second-place finishers include freshman Shay Spelman, freshman Katherine Kuhl, and Szczupakiewicz. Spelman finished in second place in the 500 free with a time of 5:05.96. Kuhl’s second-place finish was in the 100 fly with a time of 58.93. Szczupakiewicz swam a time of 2:10.24 in the 200 back for second place.
For the one-meter dive, sophomore divers Jenna Karrow and Taylor LeCount finished fourth and fifth with scores of 254.85 and 246.38, respectively. LeCount placed second in the three-meter dive with a score of 261.08, while Karrow took fourth with a score of 230.40.
“It was exciting to get out and race. I thought the women did a great job of getting back into racing form,” said Miami head coach Mark Davis, “Purdue is a great team, and it was great to see how we stacked up against them.”
The RedHawks do not get much of a break as they turn around tomorrow and host Xavier in a co-ed meet Saturday, Oct. 18, in the Nixon Aquatic Center at 2 p.m.
