Northwestern University Athletics
Men's Swimmers Complete Day One of Big Ten Meet
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
February 25, 1999
EVANSTON, Ill. - The Northwestern men's swimming and diving team finished the first of three days at the Big Ten Championships in seventh place out of 10 teams. NU finished the day with 71.5 points; Michigan was the leader after day one with 187.5. NU's performance was buoyed by third and fourth-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle and 400 medley relays, respectively.
Senior Brian Walters (Wyndmoor, Pa./William Penn Charter) set a Northwestern record by swimming a 47.94 in the 100 backstroke leg of the medley relay, good enough to qualify him for the NCAA Championships. In the preliminaries, Sophomore Steve Steketee (Golden, Colo./Golden) swam a 20.53 in the 50 freestyle, breaking a seven-year-old school record by .01 of a second.
NU's highest individual finisher in the championship round was junior Steve Harms (Maumee, Ohio/St. Francis de Sales), who took 12th place in the 500 freestyle with a 4:29.59. The day marked the first time in two decades that Northwestern had scored in every event on the first day of the Big Ten Championships.
Below are NU's championship round results for day one:
200 freestyle relay - 3rd - 1:21.48
500 freestyle - Steve Harms , 12th - 4:29.59
200 individual medley - Bill Johnson, 14th - 1:50.68
50 freestyle - Steve Steketee, 16th - 20.62
1-meter diving - Elliot Massuda, 16th - 3:46.35
400 medley relay - 4th - 3:17.22
