Live Results at Notre Dame: | Diving Scores
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- No. 24 Purdue women's swimming and diving travels to South Bend this weekend for its final dual meet of the fall semester, putting its five-year win streak against Notre Dame on the line Saturday afternoon.
The co-ed competition gets underway Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Rolfs Aquatic Center.
The Boilermakers may have won five straight duals vs. Notre Dame, but it's annually one of the most tightly contested meets of the season. Purdue's average margin of victory is only 20.8 points during its current win streak. The Boilers were victorious in 2010, 2012 and 2013 by 11 points or less, highlighted by a four-point victory in South Bend in the fall of 2012.
Dating back to the 2000-01 season, Purdue and Notre Dame have gone head-to-head in dual meet action in every season except 2003-04. The Boilermakers are 8-4-1 vs. the Irish in those last 13 meetings. Notre Dame's last victory in the series was in South Bend in the fall of 2008, John Klinge's first season as head coach.
South Bend-area natives Samm Reese (Granger/St. Joseph HS) and Annie Spalding (Mishawaka/Penn HS) return home for the meet. Additionally, sophomore Kate Curley (Valparaiso/Chesterton HS) hails from Northwest Indiana.
Allie Davis has enjoyed some strong showings against UND during her underclassman years as a Boilermaker. Two years ago in South Bend, the California native swept the 500 and 1000 distance freestyle races and took third in the 200 free. Last year at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center, she won the 1000 free while finishing as the runner-up in the 200 and 500.
Victories in the 400 freestyle relay have helped Purdue clinch team victories against UND the last two years. Rhiannon Sheets swam on both the 2012 and 2013 foursomes. Grace Hernandez and Carly Marshall are the other active Boilers that contributed to last year's victory in the event.
Nika Karlina Petric (500 free), Meagan Lim (100 fly) and Sheets (200 fly) joined Davis as active Boilers to win individual events last year against Notre Dame. Both teams won eight events a year ago, including one relay apiece, making second- and third-place finishes significant as well. Purdue had at least the top two finishers in the 100 free, 500 free and 100 fly.
Last week at the triple dual with Cincinnati and Ohio State in Columbus, eight Boilermakers posted new team season-best times. Kaersten Meitz led the way with her times in the 500 and 1000 free. Other new benchmarks for the young season came from Abby Jagdfeld (100 free), Trish Regan (200 back), Emily Fogle (100 breast), Francesca Marr (200 breast), Alex Todd (100 fly), Sheets (200 fly) and Petric (200 IM).
The Boilermakers are idle from competition the next two weekends before closing out their fall-semester schedule with the three-day, six-session Ohio State Invitational, Nov. 21-23 in Columbus. Purdue will be competing at the fast full-deck invitational for the third time in the last four years. With the fall training geared toward the Ohio State Invitational, it should produce a bevy of season-best times that will likely stand until the Big Ten Championships in February.
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