MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Men & Women at No. 5/13 Indiana
Saturday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. ET / B1G+ Stream
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue swimming & diving's final co-ed dual of the season doubles as the annual rivalry meet with Indiana as the Boilermakers return to Bloomington for a Saturday morning showdown.
Action at IU's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center is set for 10 a.m. ET and the meet will be streamed live on the Big Ten Network's B1G+ website and app. The subscription-based service will also have the live streams of the Big Ten Championships next month in Madison (women) and West Lafayette (men). Fans that sign up this weekend will have their monthly subscriptions cover them through the women's championships (Feb. 16-19).
It's a default 16-event dual meet format except with platform diving replacing 3-meter in the scoring. As two of the premier diving programs in the nation – especially on the tower – IU and Purdue have annually featured platform as a scoring event at their dual meet.
Last year's rivalry dual with the Hoosiers was not held until Feb. 6 due to schedule changes related to the pandemic. The meet at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center also featured co-ed representation from Ohio State (as a late addition) and a few members of Rutgers' women's team.
PURDUE NOTABLES AT 2021 DUAL MEET WITH INDIANA
• Nikola Aćin swept the freestyle sprints
• Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer, Maycey Vieta and Maggie Merriman teamed up for a 1-2-3 finish on platform
• Kate Beavon won the 500 free
• Nick Sherman won the 200 IM
The Boilermakers enjoyed a lot of success in Bloomington last month as IU's aquatics center hosted the USA Diving Winter Nationals. Tyler Downs became the first diver to sweep the men's springboard events at Winter Nationals and also teamed with Greg Duncan to earn the U.S. berth in 3-meter synchro at the FINA World Championships in May. Including National Letter of Intent signee Daryn Wright, the women's winner on 10-meter, the Boilermakers finished the weeklong Winter Nationals with 10 medals and 13 top-10 finishes. Jordan Rzepka (1-meter) and Maggie Merriman (10-meter) also earned trips to Japan for the World Championships.
As a junior in 2020, Duncan won the conference title on 3-meter at the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington. That made him a gold medalist in both the Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences. It headlined the four medals won by the Purdue men at Big Tens that year. Ben Bramley was a silver medalist on platform, Duncan also won bronze on 1-meter and the 200 medley relay team of Nikola Aćin, Ryan Hrosik, Michael Juengel and Trent Pellini were bronze medalists. It was Purdue's first relay medal at Big Tens since 2009 and the first in a medley relay since 2003.
The Purdue women competed in Bloomington twice during the 2018-19 school year, setting most of their season-best times at the Big Ten Championships or IU Invitational in November. Now a senior, Jade Knueppel eclipsed the Purdue freshman record with a time of 23.06 in the 50 free at the IU Invite. It's a mark that stood until November of this season when Hannah Hill registered a time of 23.02 at the Purdue Invitational. Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer finished top five on both springboards at the 2019 Big Ten Championships in Bloomington.
Purdue Men & Women at No. 5/13 Indiana
Saturday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. ET / B1G+ Stream
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue swimming & diving's final co-ed dual of the season doubles as the annual rivalry meet with Indiana as the Boilermakers return to Bloomington for a Saturday morning showdown.
Action at IU's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center is set for 10 a.m. ET and the meet will be streamed live on the Big Ten Network's B1G+ website and app. The subscription-based service will also have the live streams of the Big Ten Championships next month in Madison (women) and West Lafayette (men). Fans that sign up this weekend will have their monthly subscriptions cover them through the women's championships (Feb. 16-19).
It's a default 16-event dual meet format except with platform diving replacing 3-meter in the scoring. As two of the premier diving programs in the nation – especially on the tower – IU and Purdue have annually featured platform as a scoring event at their dual meet.
Last year's rivalry dual with the Hoosiers was not held until Feb. 6 due to schedule changes related to the pandemic. The meet at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center also featured co-ed representation from Ohio State (as a late addition) and a few members of Rutgers' women's team.
PURDUE NOTABLES AT 2021 DUAL MEET WITH INDIANA
• Nikola Aćin swept the freestyle sprints
• Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer, Maycey Vieta and Maggie Merriman teamed up for a 1-2-3 finish on platform
• Kate Beavon won the 500 free
• Nick Sherman won the 200 IM
The Boilermakers enjoyed a lot of success in Bloomington last month as IU's aquatics center hosted the USA Diving Winter Nationals. Tyler Downs became the first diver to sweep the men's springboard events at Winter Nationals and also teamed with Greg Duncan to earn the U.S. berth in 3-meter synchro at the FINA World Championships in May. Including National Letter of Intent signee Daryn Wright, the women's winner on 10-meter, the Boilermakers finished the weeklong Winter Nationals with 10 medals and 13 top-10 finishes. Jordan Rzepka (1-meter) and Maggie Merriman (10-meter) also earned trips to Japan for the World Championships.
As a junior in 2020, Duncan won the conference title on 3-meter at the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington. That made him a gold medalist in both the Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences. It headlined the four medals won by the Purdue men at Big Tens that year. Ben Bramley was a silver medalist on platform, Duncan also won bronze on 1-meter and the 200 medley relay team of Nikola Aćin, Ryan Hrosik, Michael Juengel and Trent Pellini were bronze medalists. It was Purdue's first relay medal at Big Tens since 2009 and the first in a medley relay since 2003.
The Purdue women competed in Bloomington twice during the 2018-19 school year, setting most of their season-best times at the Big Ten Championships or IU Invitational in November. Now a senior, Jade Knueppel eclipsed the Purdue freshman record with a time of 23.06 in the 50 free at the IU Invite. It's a mark that stood until November of this season when Hannah Hill registered a time of 23.02 at the Purdue Invitational. Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer finished top five on both springboards at the 2019 Big Ten Championships in Bloomington.
| 2021-22 INDIVIDUAL VICTORY LEADERS | |
| PURDUE MEN Nikola Aćin – 8 Tyler Downs – 6 (+3 at Nationals) Brady Samuels – 5 Jordan Rzepka – 3 Luke Fortner – 2 Keelan Hart – 2 Nick Sherman – 2 Nine Tied with 1 PART OF MOST RELAY WINNERS Brady Samuels – 5 Nikola Aćin – 4 Idris Muhammad – 4 Keelan Hart – 3 Ryan Hrosik – 3 |
PURDUE WOMEN Kate Beavon – 6 Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer – 4 Masy Folcik – 4 Hannah Hill – 3 Maggie Love – 3 Lindsay Turner – 3 Sophie McAfee – 2 Five Tied with 1 PART OF MOST RELAY WINNERS Teagen Moon – 4 Masy Folcik – 3 Hannah Hill – 3 Four Tied with 2 |