2017 B1G WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, February 15th to Saturday, February 18th | Prelims 11am | Finals 6:30pm
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champions: Michigan Wolverines (results)
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream via Big Ten Network
- Championship Central
Freshman Tevyn Waddell, freshman Lindsey Horejsi, junior Danielle Nack, and sophomore Zoe Avestruz teamed up tonight to take down the Big Ten Conference, the Big Ten meet, the Purdue pool, and the University of Minnesota team records to win the conference championship tonight in the 200 medley relay.
The performance edged out the former Wisconsin conference mark 1:35.71 set by Maggie Meyer, Ashley Wanland, Caroline Palm, and Beckie Thompson back in 2011. It also overtook Meyer, Wanland, Christine Zweigers, and Thompson’s 1:36.39 Big Ten meet record, and the University of Arizona’s 1:35.75 pool record.
Though none of the Minnesota swimmers had the fastest split of the field in any of their strokes, they had no true weak spot; each swimmer’s splits came within the top three splits in the field for their chosen stroke. This overall consistency was able to rocket Minnesota ahead of some of the swimmers in the field with faster individual splits, including Lilly King of Indiana, Chase Kinney of Wisconsin, and Zhesi Li of Ohio State.
You can see the team’s splits from tonight below:
- Tevyn Waddell: 24.52
- Lindsey Horejsi: 26.51 (51.03)
- Danielle Nack: 23.19 (1:14.22)
- Zoe Avestruz: 21.33 (1:35.55)
Lilly King split a 25.55 50 breast….no surprise honestly, but damn!
Not sure how Lindsey Horjesi and Zoe Avestruz are not considered “bigger name swimmers”
Horjesi, yes I can see your issue. Avestruz struggled as a Freshman, and if I recall correctly, Nack wasn’t the stud she was expected to be when she came in either. With that being said, it’s nice to see the Gophers doing well with their in state kids. Sad to see the Hawkeyes and that nutter of a head coach down there smiling in seventh place mediocrity again. Hope Barta is proud!!!!!