Big Tens Scoring Recap
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Brandon Loschiavo repeating as the Big Ten champion on the tower and honorable mention All-America accolades for the record-setting medley relay teams highlighted the 2018-19 season for Purdue men's swimming & diving.
The Boilermakers earned All-America honors in six events at the NCAA Championships. Ben Bramley was a championship finalist in platform diving as a freshman, with his sixth-place national finish ranking as Purdue's top individual showing.
After winning bronze in both springboard diving events in his debut at the Big Ten Championships, sophomore Greg Duncan also finished among the top 10 on both 1-meter and 3-meter at the national championship meet. He won the 3-meter consolation final and was the runner-up in the 1-meter consolation final.
Purdue established program records in three relay events – the 200 and 400 medley and 400 freestyle. Trent Pellini's team record in the 100 breaststroke helped the Boilermakers qualify a relay for the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2015. Pellini would go on to earn honorable mention All-America accolades individually in the 100 breast.
Nikola Acin, Erik Juliusson and Joe Young swam on all three relays at NCAAs, joining forces with Pellini in the medleys and James Boone in the 400 free. The medley relay teams both outperformed their seeds to qualify for the consolation finals, earning honorable mention All-America acclaim. Purdue earned All-America honors in two different relays in the same year for the first time ever.
The Boilermakers finished fourth at the Big Ten Championships and 23rd at the NCAA Championships. They placed fourth at Big Tens for the second year in a row and third time in the last five years. That matched the program's best-ever showing at Big Tens. During the modern era of the meet, Purdue's 2009 and 2010 teams were the only others to finish fourth in consecutive years. At NCAAs, the Boilermakers placed among the top 25 for the 12th time since 2005.
Loschiavo joined David Boudia as Purdue divers to repeat as a conference champion in the same event. Steele Johnson (2016) and Loschiavo have teamed up to win the last three Big Ten titles in the event. Dating back to 2009, the Boilermakers have won six platform championships and 13 Big Ten diving titles overall. Loschiavo was the first man since Indiana's Conor Murphy (2013-14) to be a repeat champion on the tower. He was also victorious in the event at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and Texas Hall of Fame Diving Invitational.
Duncan and Bramley teamed up to sweep the bronze medals in the diving events at Big Tens. The Boilermakers scored a meet-high 219 points in the diving well at the conference championship meet. Joe Cifelli and Bramley both scored in all three diving events. Cifelli also became Purdue's first men's diver to be a four-year qualifier for the NCAA Championships.
Acin, Juliusson, Pellini and Young scored in all three of their individual events at Big Tens en route to qualifying for NCAAs for the first time. Young eclipsed his own program records in both backstroke events, lowering the 100 back mark again on the leadoff leg of the 200 medley relay at NCAAs.
Acin set Purdue freshman records in the 50, 100 and 200 free. He teamed with Nikola Bjelajac, Ryan Lawrence and Boone to eclipse the program record in the 400 free relay at Big Tens.
In November, the Boilermakers won the seven-team Hawkeye Invitational. They did it even with the divers competing at the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational that same week. It marked the first time the Boilermakers won a multi-day invitational meet on the road since November 2001 at Northwestern.
Purdue bids adieu to another accomplished senior class that helped rewrite the program record book. Acin, Bramley, Duncan, Loschiavo and Pellini will headline the Boilermakers' returning letterwinners for the 2019-20 season.
ALL-AMERICA
Ben Bramley – Platform Diving
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICA
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Trent Pellini – 100 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Nikola Acin – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Erik Juliusson – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Joe Young – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
Nikola Acin – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
James Boone – 400 Free Relay
Ben Bramley – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
Joe Cifelli – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Erik Juliusson – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
Trent Pellini – 100 & 200 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Joe Young – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
BIG TEN CHAMPION, FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
MORE BIG TEN MEDALISTS
Greg Duncan – Bronze in 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Ben Bramley – Bronze in Platform Diving
USA DIVING MEDALISTS
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold on 10-Meter at Senior Nationals, Bronze on 10-Meter at Winter Trials
Ben Bramley & Steele Johnson – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro at Senior Nationals
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold & Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro at Senior Nationals
Brandon Loschiavo – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro & Bronze on 10-Meter at FINA Diving Grand Prix (USA meet)
Steele Johnson – Bronze on 10-Meter at Senior Nationals
FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
Nikola Acin (Serbia) – 4x100 Free Relay
Brandon Loschiavo (USA) – 10-Meter Diving
Ben Bramley (USA) – Synchronized 10-Meter Diving
Steele Johnson (USA) – Synchronized 10-Meter Diving
PAN AMERICAN GAMES QUALIFIERS
Ben Bramley (USA) – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro
Steele Johnson (USA) – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro
BIG TEN WEEKLY AWARDS
Brandon Loschiavo – Diver of the Week (Nov. 14)
Greg Duncan – Diver of the Week (Jan. 16)
PROGRAM RECORDS
100 Backstroke – Joe Young, 45.56
200 Backstroke – Joe Young, 1:41.93
100 Breaststroke – Trent Pellini, 51.76
200 Medley Relay – Young, Pellini, Juliusson & Acin, 1:24.33
400 Medley Relay – Young, Pellini, Juliusson & Acin, 3:05.11
400 Free Relay – Bjelajac, Acin, Lawrence & Boone, 2:52.19
FRESHMAN RECORDS
50 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 19.51
100 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 43.03
200 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 1:35.11
ACC/BIG TEN CHALLENGE SELECTIONS
Joe Young -- 100 Back, 100 Fly, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Trent Pellini -- 100 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
Nick McDowell – 1000 Free
Joe Cifelli – 3-Meter Diving
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
TEAM AWARDS
Most Valuable Swimmer – Trent Pellini
Most Valuable Diver – Greg Duncan
Most Improved – Tim Barth
R.O. Papenguth (Sportsmanship) – Grant Lewis
Red Mackey (Excellence By a Senior) – James Boone
Big Ten Sportsmanship – Jackson Higgins
BIG TEN DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS (3.7+ GPA)
Grant Lewis
Will Schrensky
Dale Williams
CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & NCAAs QUALIFIER)
Ben Bramley
Greg Duncan
Erik Juliusson
CSCAA H.M. SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & B CUT)
Gabi Gomez Treig
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Nick McDowell
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN (3.0+ GPA)
Joe Cifelli
Joe Gardner
Gabi Gomez Treig
Jake Heidecker
Steele Johnson
Erik Juliusson
Kiki Komlenic
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Brandon Loschiavo
Gavin McCulloch
Nick McDowell
Trent Pellini
Will Schrensky
Michael Smith
Dale Williams
Joe Young
Season Recaps: 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Brandon Loschiavo repeating as the Big Ten champion on the tower and honorable mention All-America accolades for the record-setting medley relay teams highlighted the 2018-19 season for Purdue men's swimming & diving.
The Boilermakers earned All-America honors in six events at the NCAA Championships. Ben Bramley was a championship finalist in platform diving as a freshman, with his sixth-place national finish ranking as Purdue's top individual showing.
After winning bronze in both springboard diving events in his debut at the Big Ten Championships, sophomore Greg Duncan also finished among the top 10 on both 1-meter and 3-meter at the national championship meet. He won the 3-meter consolation final and was the runner-up in the 1-meter consolation final.
Purdue established program records in three relay events – the 200 and 400 medley and 400 freestyle. Trent Pellini's team record in the 100 breaststroke helped the Boilermakers qualify a relay for the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2015. Pellini would go on to earn honorable mention All-America accolades individually in the 100 breast.
Nikola Acin, Erik Juliusson and Joe Young swam on all three relays at NCAAs, joining forces with Pellini in the medleys and James Boone in the 400 free. The medley relay teams both outperformed their seeds to qualify for the consolation finals, earning honorable mention All-America acclaim. Purdue earned All-America honors in two different relays in the same year for the first time ever.
The Boilermakers finished fourth at the Big Ten Championships and 23rd at the NCAA Championships. They placed fourth at Big Tens for the second year in a row and third time in the last five years. That matched the program's best-ever showing at Big Tens. During the modern era of the meet, Purdue's 2009 and 2010 teams were the only others to finish fourth in consecutive years. At NCAAs, the Boilermakers placed among the top 25 for the 12th time since 2005.
Loschiavo joined David Boudia as Purdue divers to repeat as a conference champion in the same event. Steele Johnson (2016) and Loschiavo have teamed up to win the last three Big Ten titles in the event. Dating back to 2009, the Boilermakers have won six platform championships and 13 Big Ten diving titles overall. Loschiavo was the first man since Indiana's Conor Murphy (2013-14) to be a repeat champion on the tower. He was also victorious in the event at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and Texas Hall of Fame Diving Invitational.
Duncan and Bramley teamed up to sweep the bronze medals in the diving events at Big Tens. The Boilermakers scored a meet-high 219 points in the diving well at the conference championship meet. Joe Cifelli and Bramley both scored in all three diving events. Cifelli also became Purdue's first men's diver to be a four-year qualifier for the NCAA Championships.
Acin, Juliusson, Pellini and Young scored in all three of their individual events at Big Tens en route to qualifying for NCAAs for the first time. Young eclipsed his own program records in both backstroke events, lowering the 100 back mark again on the leadoff leg of the 200 medley relay at NCAAs.
Acin set Purdue freshman records in the 50, 100 and 200 free. He teamed with Nikola Bjelajac, Ryan Lawrence and Boone to eclipse the program record in the 400 free relay at Big Tens.
In November, the Boilermakers won the seven-team Hawkeye Invitational. They did it even with the divers competing at the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational that same week. It marked the first time the Boilermakers won a multi-day invitational meet on the road since November 2001 at Northwestern.
Purdue bids adieu to another accomplished senior class that helped rewrite the program record book. Acin, Bramley, Duncan, Loschiavo and Pellini will headline the Boilermakers' returning letterwinners for the 2019-20 season.
ALL-AMERICA
Ben Bramley – Platform Diving
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICA
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Trent Pellini – 100 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Nikola Acin – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Erik Juliusson – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Joe Young – 200 & 400 Medley Relays
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
Nikola Acin – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
James Boone – 400 Free Relay
Ben Bramley – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
Joe Cifelli – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Erik Juliusson – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
Trent Pellini – 100 & 200 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Joe Young – 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
BIG TEN CHAMPION, FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
MORE BIG TEN MEDALISTS
Greg Duncan – Bronze in 1-Meter & 3-Meter Diving
Ben Bramley – Bronze in Platform Diving
USA DIVING MEDALISTS
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold on 10-Meter at Senior Nationals, Bronze on 10-Meter at Winter Trials
Ben Bramley & Steele Johnson – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro at Senior Nationals
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold & Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro at Senior Nationals
Brandon Loschiavo – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro & Bronze on 10-Meter at FINA Diving Grand Prix (USA meet)
Steele Johnson – Bronze on 10-Meter at Senior Nationals
FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
Nikola Acin (Serbia) – 4x100 Free Relay
Brandon Loschiavo (USA) – 10-Meter Diving
Ben Bramley (USA) – Synchronized 10-Meter Diving
Steele Johnson (USA) – Synchronized 10-Meter Diving
PAN AMERICAN GAMES QUALIFIERS
Ben Bramley (USA) – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro
Steele Johnson (USA) – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro
BIG TEN WEEKLY AWARDS
Brandon Loschiavo – Diver of the Week (Nov. 14)
Greg Duncan – Diver of the Week (Jan. 16)
PROGRAM RECORDS
100 Backstroke – Joe Young, 45.56
200 Backstroke – Joe Young, 1:41.93
100 Breaststroke – Trent Pellini, 51.76
200 Medley Relay – Young, Pellini, Juliusson & Acin, 1:24.33
400 Medley Relay – Young, Pellini, Juliusson & Acin, 3:05.11
400 Free Relay – Bjelajac, Acin, Lawrence & Boone, 2:52.19
FRESHMAN RECORDS
50 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 19.51
100 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 43.03
200 Freestyle – Nikola Acin, 1:35.11
ACC/BIG TEN CHALLENGE SELECTIONS
Joe Young -- 100 Back, 100 Fly, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
Trent Pellini -- 100 Breast, 200 & 400 Medley Relays, 400 Free Relay
Nick McDowell – 1000 Free
Joe Cifelli – 3-Meter Diving
Brandon Loschiavo – Platform Diving
TEAM AWARDS
Most Valuable Swimmer – Trent Pellini
Most Valuable Diver – Greg Duncan
Most Improved – Tim Barth
R.O. Papenguth (Sportsmanship) – Grant Lewis
Red Mackey (Excellence By a Senior) – James Boone
Big Ten Sportsmanship – Jackson Higgins
BIG TEN DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS (3.7+ GPA)
Grant Lewis
Will Schrensky
Dale Williams
CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & NCAAs QUALIFIER)
Ben Bramley
Greg Duncan
Erik Juliusson
CSCAA H.M. SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & B CUT)
Gabi Gomez Treig
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Nick McDowell
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN (3.0+ GPA)
Joe Cifelli
Joe Gardner
Gabi Gomez Treig
Jake Heidecker
Steele Johnson
Erik Juliusson
Kiki Komlenic
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Brandon Loschiavo
Gavin McCulloch
Nick McDowell
Trent Pellini
Will Schrensky
Michael Smith
Dale Williams
Joe Young