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Northwestern Swimmers and Divers Travel to Iowa Saturday
1/21/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
Jan. 21, 2011
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Both Northwestern's men's and women's swimming and diving teams travel to Iowa Saturday to face the Hawkeyes at 11 a.m. CT at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
Live results from the meet will be available by clicking here.
Northwestern's men are coming off a narrow 160-140 Senior Day loss to Notre Dame on Jan. 12. The 'Cats enter their next-to-last meet of the regular season with four swimmers currently combining for eight times ranked in the top-10 in the Big Ten. Senior Alex Tyler (Birmingham, Mich./Birmingham Groves) is fourth in both individual medleys, ninth in the 200 breast and 10th in the 100 breast. Also earning top-10 times are Charlie Rimkus (Tustin, Calif./Beckman) in the 400 IM (sixth), 500 free (sixth) and 1,650 free (eighth), Sean Mathews (St. Louis, Mo./Lafayette) in the 200 fly (seventh) and Peter Park in the 1,000 free (ninth).
The Wildcat women defeated Notre Dame and narrowly fell to No. 15 Michigan by 10 points in their Senior Day meet Jan. 15. Northwestern's effort -- which included 10 season-best times and scores -- was ranked the nation's second-best performance of the week by the Avidasports Performance Rankings. The ratings measure each team's performance against their past results and those of other programs. For more information on the metrics involved in the rankings, visit Collegeswimming.com.
Following the Iowa meet, both NU squads have one more regular-season meet left. The men will face Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State in a quad-dual Jan. 28-29 in Ann Arbor, Mich., while the women will participate in an multiple-team meet Jan. 28-29 at Notre Dame.
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Earlier this week, the Northwestern men announced a Wrigley Field rooftop reunion set for April 23 to celebrate the 100th year of NU swimming and diving. The Wildcats held the first meet in program history on its Evanston campus Friday, Jan. 27, 1911, before hosting every Big Ten Championship meet from 1911-21. In the decades that have followed, Northwestern has earned four team national championships, 28 individual national championships, 11 team Big Ten Championships and 110 individual Big Ten Championships.
For more information, click here or download the .pdf registration form here.
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