Meet Stats
- Complete results
- Hosted by Nebraska
- November 5, 2016
- 25 yard, women’s dual meet
- Score
- Nebraska 198, Kansas 101
Press Release
Courtesy of Nebraska Athletics
Lincoln — All-American Anna Filipcic smashed the Nebraska record in the three-meter dive while adding a Devaney Natatorium record on the one-meter board to power the Nebraska swimming and diving team’s 198-101 victory over Kansas on Saturday.
With the victory, Nebraska improved to 4-0 to start the season for the first time since 2012-13, while snapping an eight-dual losing streak that spanned 12 years against Kansas. It marked the Huskers’ first dual win over the Jayhawks since beating the beaks in blue, 180-120 in a Big 12 Conference dual at the Devaney Natatorium on Jan. 15, 2005. Kansas slipped to 3-1 on the year after the Big Red handed them their first setback of the season.
Filipcic’s record-setting day in the diving well provided one of many highlights for the Huskers on the afternoon, as Nebraska claimed titles in 14 of the 16 events contests against the Jayhawks. Filipcic, a senior out of Omaha Burke, shattered her own school with a whopping six-dive total of 372.30 on the three-meter dive. Her previous career best came with a 359.03 against Illinois last season. She added a Devaney Natatorium record with a six-dive total of 330.52 in the one-meter diving event.
Filipcic wasn’t the only Husker to score big points for the Big Red in the diving event. Freshman Abigail Knapton out of Omaha Marian contributed a runner-up finish with a career-best score of 289.43 on the one-meter board. She pitched in another career best with a 332.85 to finish second on the three-meter board. Sophomore Katrina Voge pitched in third-place finishes in both dives with a 235.27 on the one meter and a 275.03 on the three meter.
Before Filipcic and the Husker divers dominated in the well, the Nebraska swimmers erupted to a fast start in the pool. The Huskers opened with a victory in the 200-yard medley with a time of 1:43.82. The relay consisted of freshmen Carla Gonzalez-Garcia, Tori Beeler and Allie Worrall and senior Erin Oeltjen.
Oeltjen and Worrall also joined forces Kaylyn Flatt and Lindsay Helferich to cap the meet for the Huskers with another victory in the 400 free relay (3:28.92). Oeljen and Worrall each added pair of individual victories to claim four wins apiece on the day. Beeler also notched a four-win day, claiming three individual wins along with helping the Huskers in the 200 medley relay.
Oeltjen, a Husker co-captain out of Millard West High School in Omaha, raced to wins in the 100 (56.56) and the 200-yard backstrokes (2:01.62). Worrall, a freshman from Phoenix, Ariz., captured individual titles in the 50 freestyle (23.82) before adding a victory in the 100 freestyle (51.50). Worrall’s times were both season bests, as she cut 0.59 off her time in the 100 free, since last Friday’s win over Northern Iowa. Since the start of the season, Worrall has slashed nearly two seconds off her time in the 100 free.
Beeler, a freshman from Parkville, Mo., swam to a win in the 200-yard IM (2:05.27), while sweeping the 100 (1:03.46) and the 200-yard breaststroke titles (2:17.79). Beeler’s times were all season and collegiate bests, as she slashed more than one second off her previous best in the 100 and 200 breasts. Beeler has moved within one second of the NCAA B standard in the 100, and is just 1.80 seconds from the B standard in the 200 breast.
Dana Posthuma, a sophomore out of Omaha Burke, captured wins in the 100 (56.02) and 200 butterfly events (2:02.28), while fellow sophomore Kaylyn Flatt produced a victory in the 500-yard freestyle (5:01.71) before helping the Huskers to a win in the 400 free relay. Flatt also pitched in a runner-up finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:14.39).
Posthuma and Oeltjen will represent the Huskers next weekend at the USA College Challenge in Indianapolis. The exciting meet will feature teams from each Big Ten school competing against members of the U.S. National Team, Nov. 12-13.
Press Release
Courtesy of Kansas Athletics
LINCOLN, Neb. – Kansas swimming and diving won two out of the first three events but Nebraska’s Tori Beeler won three events in the pool and Anna Filipcic set a pair of school records in the diving well as the Huskers turned back the Jayhawks, 198-101, at Devaney Natatorium Saturday.
“We ran into a buzz saw and came out on the short end,” Kansas head coach Clark Campbel said after the meet. “We were kind of right where we’ve been all year, maybe just a little bit off. Nebraska was way above where they’ve been. This is by far, of all their fall meets, their best dual meet.”
Kansas swam several season-best times in its first road meet of the season, and appeared ready to give Nebraska a stiff challenge as Libby Walker (1000-yard freestyle) and Jenny Nusbaum (200-yard freestyle) answered the Huskers’ meet-opening win in the 200-yard medley relay, but the home side was just getting started. Nebraska won 13 straight events to close the meet and end Kansas’ dual meet winning streak at three while moving to 4-0 on its own.
“Of our three dual meets, this was our third-best,” Campbell said. “We underperformed and Nebraska over-performed. When that happens, you lose. We did have several in-season best times, which are good. Nebraska just came out and swam and dove lights out and pounded us.
“We’ll keep honoring the process, keep working hard. We’ll go into the Kansas Classic rested a couple days, put on the technical suits and see what we can do to end the fall.”
Walker improved to 3-0 this season in the 1000 and dropped three seconds off her time from the TCU meet to finish in 10:12.00. That time should move her into the top-100 in the country at this point of the season, before Kansas turns to its fastest event, the Kansas Classic in two weeks.
Nusbaum also remained undefeated in the 200-yard freestyle during her freshman campaign, turning in another sub-1:53 clocking at 1:52.71.
Kansas junior diver Nadia Khechfe, a Lincoln native, was the team’s top finisher on both boards with a fifth-place finish in one-meter diving (232.95) and a fourth-place finish on the three-meter boards (255.68).
“Libby Walker‘s 1000 free was really good,” Campbell said. “Sammie Schurig, I thought performed really well. Nadia dove well on both boards. There were some things that definitely were good, but for us to have been competitive today we had to be great and great just wasn’t in the cards.”
After three straight weeks of dual meet competition, Kansas will take a week away from head-to-head match-ups before welcoming a field of six teams, including Nebraska, to the Kansas Classic at Topeka’s Capitol Federal Natatorium, Nov. 18-20.
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