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MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Women at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 19 to 22
Opening Night Relays at 6 p.m. ET
Noon ET Prelims, 7:30 p.m. Finals / BTN+
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center / Iowa City, Iowa
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue women's swimming & diving joins its conference comrades at the newest pool in the league this week as the sport's championship season begins with the Big Ten Championships at Iowa's aquatic center.
Action at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in Iowa City begins Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET, a time that was moved up a bit from recent years, and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for noon ET. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 7:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 2 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Sunday, Feb. 23 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET. The BTN+ app and website will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of the first six sessions. Saturday finals should be streamed live on the Fox Sports app and website.
SENIOR SALUTE
• Emily Meaney and Jinq En Phee have an opportunity to score at the Big Ten Championships all four years of their careers.
• Meaney won bronze on the tower as a junior and broke Purdue's program record in the event at the 2017 Big Ten Championships. She has accounted for 134 points at Big Tens during her career, most among active Boilermakers.
• Phee was an A finalist in the 100 breaststroke as a sophomore and scored in both breaststroke events each of the last two years. She has helped the Boilermakers eclipse program records in both medley relays each of the last two years. The Olympian remains one of only two Boilermakers to ever break one minute in the 100 breast.
SCORED IN ALL THREE OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
• Emily Bretscher (2018), Emily Meaney (2019) and Natalie Myers (2019) have each accomplished the feat of scoring in all three of their individual events at the Big Ten Championships.
• As an underclassman, Bretscher registered three top-five finishes in the diving events – including on both 1-meter (4th) and the platform (5th) last year. After winning a league-high four Big Ten Diver of the Week honors this season, she's in prime position to medal this year as a junior.
• Myers demonstrated her versatility as a sophomore, scoring in both individual medley events and the 200 backstroke.
FRESHMEN TO WATCH
• Mallory Jump and Sylvia Kobylak have been the top performers among a talented freshman class for Purdue. They could be poised to enjoy breakout meets in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
• Jump eclipsed freshman records in the 100 back (54.36) and 200 IM (1:59.70) at the Purdue Invitational in November. She was also just .01 hundredth of a second off the team's freshmen record in the 100 butterfly (53.78) at the Purdue Invite. She already ranks among the top 10 in program history in all three events.
• Kobylak has posted multiple NCAA provisional qualifying times (B Cuts) in the 200 breast this season. Her time of 2:12.82 at the Purdue Invite ranks fifth in program history and she nearly matched that mark in the Jan. 25 dual meet at Indiana (2:12.87).
• Classmate Kendra Bowen accounted for Purdue's season-best times across four freestyle events – 50 through 500 – at the Purdue Invitational. Claire Abbasse has also been one of Purdue's top sprinters as a freshman. Both newcomers could earn places on the freestyle relays.
• Diver Maycey Vieta should also be a contender to score. Purdue's freshman divers have routinely scored in multiple events in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
FIRST TRIP TO IOWA CITY SINCE NOVEMBER 2016
• The Purdue women have not competed at Iowa's pool since the current seniors were freshmen. In the fall of 2016, the Boilermakers visiting Iowa City for a triple dual with Missouri State and the Hawkeyes. Of the Purdue student-athlete making the trip west this week, only Emily Converse, Courtney Kresl, Emily Meaney and Jinq En Phee also competed in that meet. That's a 180 change from last season when Indiana hosted; Purdue had swimmers compete in Bloomington in both July (Senior State) and November (IU Invitational) of 2018.
• Iowa's CRWC opened in the summer of 2010 and hosted both the men's and women's conference championships for the first time in 2012. It was later selected to host the 2015 Men's NCAA Championships and thus men's Big Tens as well. The men's Big Ten Championships returned to Iowa City last year.
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 5 Michigan, No. 19 Ohio State, No. 22 Indiana, No. 25 Minnesota, No. 25 Northwestern
• Indiana won the conference title as the host school last season, marking the first time since Michigan in 2016 the host was victorious. The Wolverines won three Big Ten titles in a row from 2016 to 2018. Minnesota won four straight before that.
YEAR FIVE OF THE 3-FINAL SCORING SYSTEM
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34-32-30-28
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Casey Matthews – 1-Meter, 2014
• Swimming: Carlene Takaki – 200 Fly, 2006
MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Women at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 19 to 22
Opening Night Relays at 6 p.m. ET
Noon ET Prelims, 7:30 p.m. Finals / BTN+
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center / Iowa City, Iowa
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue women's swimming & diving joins its conference comrades at the newest pool in the league this week as the sport's championship season begins with the Big Ten Championships at Iowa's aquatic center.
Action at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in Iowa City begins Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET, a time that was moved up a bit from recent years, and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for noon ET. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 7:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 2 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Sunday, Feb. 23 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET. The BTN+ app and website will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of the first six sessions. Saturday finals should be streamed live on the Fox Sports app and website.
SENIOR SALUTE
• Emily Meaney and Jinq En Phee have an opportunity to score at the Big Ten Championships all four years of their careers.
• Meaney won bronze on the tower as a junior and broke Purdue's program record in the event at the 2017 Big Ten Championships. She has accounted for 134 points at Big Tens during her career, most among active Boilermakers.
• Phee was an A finalist in the 100 breaststroke as a sophomore and scored in both breaststroke events each of the last two years. She has helped the Boilermakers eclipse program records in both medley relays each of the last two years. The Olympian remains one of only two Boilermakers to ever break one minute in the 100 breast.
SCORED IN ALL THREE OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
• Emily Bretscher (2018), Emily Meaney (2019) and Natalie Myers (2019) have each accomplished the feat of scoring in all three of their individual events at the Big Ten Championships.
• As an underclassman, Bretscher registered three top-five finishes in the diving events – including on both 1-meter (4th) and the platform (5th) last year. After winning a league-high four Big Ten Diver of the Week honors this season, she's in prime position to medal this year as a junior.
• Myers demonstrated her versatility as a sophomore, scoring in both individual medley events and the 200 backstroke.
| PURDUE'S ACTIVE SCORING LEADERS AT THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
| Boilermaker | Career Points | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| Emily Meaney | 135 | 52 | 43 | 39 |
| Emily Bretscher | 100 | 51 | 49 | NA |
| Jinq En Phee | 88 | 29 | 42 | 17 |
| Maizie Seidl | 24 | 19 | 5 | NA |
| Maggie Merriman | 24 | 24 | NA | NA |
FRESHMEN TO WATCH
• Mallory Jump and Sylvia Kobylak have been the top performers among a talented freshman class for Purdue. They could be poised to enjoy breakout meets in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
• Jump eclipsed freshman records in the 100 back (54.36) and 200 IM (1:59.70) at the Purdue Invitational in November. She was also just .01 hundredth of a second off the team's freshmen record in the 100 butterfly (53.78) at the Purdue Invite. She already ranks among the top 10 in program history in all three events.
• Kobylak has posted multiple NCAA provisional qualifying times (B Cuts) in the 200 breast this season. Her time of 2:12.82 at the Purdue Invite ranks fifth in program history and she nearly matched that mark in the Jan. 25 dual meet at Indiana (2:12.87).
• Classmate Kendra Bowen accounted for Purdue's season-best times across four freestyle events – 50 through 500 – at the Purdue Invitational. Claire Abbasse has also been one of Purdue's top sprinters as a freshman. Both newcomers could earn places on the freestyle relays.
• Diver Maycey Vieta should also be a contender to score. Purdue's freshman divers have routinely scored in multiple events in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
FIRST TRIP TO IOWA CITY SINCE NOVEMBER 2016
• The Purdue women have not competed at Iowa's pool since the current seniors were freshmen. In the fall of 2016, the Boilermakers visiting Iowa City for a triple dual with Missouri State and the Hawkeyes. Of the Purdue student-athlete making the trip west this week, only Emily Converse, Courtney Kresl, Emily Meaney and Jinq En Phee also competed in that meet. That's a 180 change from last season when Indiana hosted; Purdue had swimmers compete in Bloomington in both July (Senior State) and November (IU Invitational) of 2018.
• Iowa's CRWC opened in the summer of 2010 and hosted both the men's and women's conference championships for the first time in 2012. It was later selected to host the 2015 Men's NCAA Championships and thus men's Big Tens as well. The men's Big Ten Championships returned to Iowa City last year.
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 5 Michigan, No. 19 Ohio State, No. 22 Indiana, No. 25 Minnesota, No. 25 Northwestern
• Indiana won the conference title as the host school last season, marking the first time since Michigan in 2016 the host was victorious. The Wolverines won three Big Ten titles in a row from 2016 to 2018. Minnesota won four straight before that.
YEAR FIVE OF THE 3-FINAL SCORING SYSTEM
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34-32-30-28
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Casey Matthews – 1-Meter, 2014
• Swimming: Carlene Takaki – 200 Fly, 2006