MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Men’s Swimming & Diving at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, Feb. 28 / All Sessions Streaming on B1G+
Opening Night Relays & Team Diving at 5 p.m. ET
Swimming Prelims at 11 a.m. Prelims / Diving Prelims at 1 p.m. / 6 p.m. Finals Sessions
Soderholm Family Aquatic Center / Madison, Wisconsin
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Men’s Swimming & Diving makes its second trip of the season to Madison, joining the full complement of teams from around the league as Wisconsin hosts the men’s edition of the Big Ten Championships on campus for the first time since 1974.
Action is set for Wednesday evening through Saturday at UW’s Soderholm Family Aquatic Center, which opened in September 2020 and hosted the women’s Big Ten Championships for the first time in 2022. Swimming prelims begin at 11 a.m. ET and diving prelims at 1 p.m. Finals sessions begin at 6 p.m. ET with the diving consolation final. The meet opens Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET with a pair of relays plus the exhibition team diving event.
With the NCAA Championships adopting a new event schedule this season, the Big Ten Championships has followed suit and changed up its daily slate of events as well. The Boilermakers experienced that new event schedule for the first time at the Ohio State Invitational in November. At the OSU Invite, sophomores Blake Rowe (200 back) and Evan Mackesy (400 IM) eclipsed team records; Jānis Dzirkalis (50 free) and Biko Hooper-Haviland (200 fly) also broke Purdue freshman records.
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REVAMPED EVENT SCHEDULE AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS – 7-SESSION FORMAT |
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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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200 Medley Relay |
100 Fly |
100 Back |
200 IM |
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Diving Prelims Begin Daily at 1 p.m. ET | 1,650 Free & Relays are Finals Only |
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Purdue’s swimmers competed head-to-head vs. Wisconsin in Madison on Dec. 6. Dzirkalis swept the freestyle sprints in the dual. The divers were en route to the USA Diving Winter Nationals in Texas and were unable to attend. It marked the sixth time since the 2017-18 the Boilers competed at the host pool of Big Tens prior to the championship season.
Divers Tyler Wills, Kaden Springfield and Zach Welsh represented Purdue on the inaugural Big Ten All-Freshman Team a year ago at Big Tens. Wills won bronze on platform at Big Tens and Springfield won bronze on the tower at the NCAA Championships. Welsh finished top 10 on both springboards at Big Tens. Junior Max Miller was also a championship finalist on 1-meter last season and Holden Higbie scored in all three diving events in 2024 before redshirting due to injury a year ago.
Senior Dylan Burau is also back at Big Tens after a redshirt season. He was an A finalist while setting a team record in the 200 backstroke in 2024. Last season, Rowe was an A finalist in the 200 back in his debut at Big Tens.
Last season, diver Jordan Rzepka became Purdue’s first Big Ten champion since 2021. However, the Boilers enjoyed a seven-year streak with at least one Big Ten champion from 2015 to 2021. Those titles were in platform diving (four), 200 breaststroke (three) and 3-meter diving (two).
TOP 5 TIMES/SCORES IN TEAM HISTORY POSTED THIS SEASON
• Blake Rowe – 1:41.43 in 200 Back (Team Record)
• Evan Mackesy – 3:43.72 in 400 IM (Team Record)
• Alex Hotta – 45.81 in 100 Fly (2nd)
• Biko Hooper-Haviland – 1:43.93 (2nd)
…Purdue Freshman Record
• Jānis Dzirkalis – 19.32 in 50 Free (3rd)
• Alex Hotta – 46.04 in 100 Back (3rd)
• Maxwell Blume – 52.72 in 100 Breast (3rd)
• 200 Free Relay – 1:16.80 (3rd)
…Thomas, Hotta, Burau, Dzirkalis
• Dylan Burau – 46.20 in 100 Back (4th)
• Evan Mackesy – 1:34.98 in 200 Free (4th)
• 200 Medley Relay – 1:24.11 in 200 Medley Relay (4th)
…Hotta, Byrd, Thomas, Dzirkalis
• 400 Free Relay – 2:51.28 (4th)
…Hotta, Dzirkalis, Thomas, Cole
• Maxwell Blume – 1:54.87 in 200 Breast (5th)
• Jonny Hines – 9:09.14 in 1000 Free (5th)
400 Medley Relay – 3:07.77 (5th)
…Burau, Blume, Hotta, Dzirkalis
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ACTIVE CAREER SCORING LEADERS AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS |
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Boilermaker |
Career Points |
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
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46 |
29 |
17 |
NA |
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44 |
44 |
NA |
NA |
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41 |
41 |
NA |
NA |
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40 |
DNC |
40 |
NA |
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40 |
40 |
NA |
NA |
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28.5 |
DNC |
27 |
1.5 |
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27 |
27 |
NA |
NA |
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20 |
7 |
13 |
NA |
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15 |
15 |
NA |
NA |
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12 |
12 |
-- |
NA |
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11 |
8 |
3 |
-- |
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7 |
-- |
7 |
NA |
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NOTABLE LIFETIME BESTS TO MOVE UP/JOIN PURDUE RECORD BOOK AT 2025 BIG TENS
(Current All-Time Rank in Team History)
• 800 Free Relay Team – 6:21.94 (1st)
…Samuels, Mattice, Rowe, Mackesy
• Evan Mackesy – 3:45.72 in 400 IM (1st)
…Purdue Freshman Record
• Pat Broderick – 15:12.43 in 1650 Free (4th(
• 200 Free Relay Team – 1:17.44 (5th)
…Thomas, Samuels, Muhammad, Kelly
• 400 Free Relay Team – 2:51.92 (5th)
…Samuels, Muhammad, Thomas, Kelly
• Maxwell Blume – 1:56.69 in 200 Breast (5th)
• 200 Medley Relay – 1:25.20 (8th)
…Muhammad, Whittaker, Samuels, Thomas
• Evan Mackesy – 4:23.28 in 500 Free (6th)
• Raymond Whittaker – 1:57.03 in 200 Breast (9th)
• Maxwell Blume – 53.36 in 100 Breast (3rd)
• Raymond Whittaker – 53.41 in 100 Breast (T-10th)
• Walker Mattice – 1:36.51 in 200 Free (14th)
• Tyler Wills – 430.50 on Platform (12th)
• Wyatt Blair – 1:46.49 in 200 Fly (14th)
• Pat Broderick – 4:24.80 in 500 Free (11th)
PURDUE’S ACTIVE SWIMMERS TO RACE ON RELAYS AT BIG TENS LAST SEASON
• Nathaniel Thomas – 200 & 400 Free, 200 Medley
• Andy Kelly – 200 & 400 Free, 400 Medley
• Evan Mackesy – 400 Medley, 800 Free
• Blake Rowe – 400 Medley, 800 Free
• Maxwell Blume – 400 Medley
• Walker Mattice – 800 Free
YEAR 11 OF THE CURRENT SCORING BREAKDOWN
• 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
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Jordan Rzepka – Platform, 2025
• Swimming: Marat Amaltdinov – 200 Breast, 2017
• Relay: 400 Medley (Sutherland, Kovacs, Brown, Ullom), 1997
YEARS THE PURDUE MEN COMPETED AT SITE OF BIG TENS BEFORE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET
Since 2000; excluding years the Boilermakers hosted Big Tens
• 2025-26 in Madison – Men’s Swimmers at Wisconsin in December
• 2024-25 in Minneapolis – Big Ten Triple Duals at Minnesota in January/February
• 2022-23 in Ann Arbor – Dual Meet at Michigan in November
• 2019-20 in Bloomington – Dual Meet at Indiana in January
• 2018-19 in Iowa City – Men’s Swimmers Won Hawkeye Invitational in November (Divers at Texas)
• 2017-18 in Minneapolis – Big Ten Triple Duals at Minnesota in January
• 2011-12 in Iowa City – Triple Dual vs. Iowa & Ohio State in November
• 2006-07 in Columbus – Dual Meet at Ohio State in November (Divers at OSU Invite in December)
• 2005-06 in Bloomington – Dual Meet at Indiana in February
• 2004-05 in Minneapolis – Minnesota Invitational in November
• 2002-03 in Ann Arbor – Dual Meet at Michigan in January
• 2001-02 in Bloomington – Dual Meet at Indiana in February