Results: Complete 2-Day | Friday
MINNEAPOLIS -- Two more individual event victories for Guillermo Blanco along with a sweep of the diving events contested Saturday highlighted the second and final day of competition for the Purdue swimming and diving teams at the Big Ten Triple Duals.
In the team scoring, the Boilermakers closed out a pair of dual victories against Northwestern, but came out on the wrong end vs. host Minnesota. The Purdue men trailed by 11 points entering the day but ended up losing to the No. 23 Gophers, 196.5-156.5.
Led by Blanco's four event victories over the two days, the Boilermakers won 11 events for the weekend. Steele Johnson swept the men's diving events after adding a 3-meter victory Saturday to his platform win from Friday.
Johnson and Jamie Bissett finished 1-2 in 3-meter diving. Johnson posted a team season-best score of 464.40 to improve on his second-best mark in program history. MacKenzie Tweardy was the only non-Minnesota diver to compete in women's platform diving Saturday, but still managed to win the event with a team season-best score of 318.90. She has won on 10-meter each of the last two weekends.
Blanco was victorious in the 200 backstroke and 400 IM Saturday, adding those winning performances to his event victories in the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly. The senior's time of 3:53.60 in the 400 IM was a personal season best.
Marat Amaltdinov won the 200 breaststroke Saturday to round out the list of Purdue victories. The freshman took third in 100 breast Friday. In November, Amaltdinov established a new team freshman record in the 200 breast at Minnesota's University Aquatic Center.
Along with Bissett, individual second-place finishers for Purdue Saturday included Kaersten Meitz (500 free), Nika Karlina Petric (400 IM) and Stephen Seliskar (100 fly). Seliskar also contributed to the men's 200 free relay team that finished second with a Purdue season-best time of 1:21.70. Austin Flager, Evan Barta and Adam Johnston rounded out the quartet.
Meagan Lim (100 fly and 400 IM), Allie Davis (100 and 500 free) and Petric (400 IM and 500 free) joined Blanco as Boilers to post a pair of top five individual finishes Saturday. Lim was Purdue's top finisher in the 100 fly.
The Purdue men finished their season with a 5-2 dual meet record. The No. 16 Purdue women went 5-3 in duals this season. Both teams will now turn their focus towards the Big Ten Championships. However, selected swimmers will compete for the women at the Ohio State Winter Invite (Feb. 14-15) and the men at the Michigan First Chance meet (Feb. 21-22) prior to Big Tens.
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Team Scores
Men
Purdue 219, Northwestern 134
#23 Minnesota 196.5, Purdue 156.5
#23 Minnesota 250, Northwestern 103
Women
#16 Purdue 206, Northwestern 134
#19 Minnesota 232.5, #16 Purdue 116.5
#19 Minnesota 259, Northwestern 88
Purdue Winners, Top Finishers & Notables
* -- Purdue Season-Best Time/Score
^ -- Personal Season-Best Time/Score
Men
3-Meter Diving
Steele Johnson, 464.40* - Event Winner; Johnson & Bissett Finished 1-2; Improved on 2nd-Best Score in Program History
100 Free
Josh Ehrman, 45.93 - Finished 5th
500 Free
Manuel Gutierrez, 4:34.82 - Finished 4th
200 Back
Guillermo Blanco, 1:47.41 - Event Winner
200 Breast
Marat Amaltdinov, 1:59.93 - Event Winner
100 Fly
Stephen Seliskar, 49.56 - Finished 2nd
400 IM
Guillermo Blanco, 3:53.60^ - Event Winner
200 Free Relay
Flager, Seliskar, Barta & Johnston, 1:21.70* - Finished 2nd
400 Free Relay
Flager, Seliskar, Gutierrez & Ehrman, 3:04.19 - Finished 3rd
Women
Platform Diving
MacKenzie Tweardy, 318.90* - Event Winner
100 Free
Abby Jagdfeld, 50.79 - Finished 4th
500 Free
Kaersten Meitz, 4:48.66 - Finished 2nd
200 Back
Trish Regan, 2:03.73 - Finished 5th
200 Breast
Annie Spalding, 2:19.91 - Finished 3rd
100 Fly
Meagan Lim, 55.81 - Finished 3rd
400 IM
Nika Karlina Petric, 4:19.92 - Finished 2nd
200 Free Relay
Hernandez, Gerbrandt, Einterz & Manger, 1:36.59^ - Finished 5th; Purdue's A Team DQed
400 Free Relay
Jagdfeld, Sheets, Davis & Hernandez, 3:27.20 - Finished 4th