University of Minnesota Athletics
Wednesday, February 22
Ann Arbor, Mich.
4:00 PM
University of Minnesota
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Big Ten Championships
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Sprint Freestyle
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Back/IM
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Breaststroke/Freestyle
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Freestyle/Butterfly/IM
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Sprint Freestyle
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Freestyle
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Backstroke/Butterfly/IM
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200 Medley Relay School Record Goes Down on Opening Night of Big Tens
2/22/2023 5:10:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota men's swimming and diving team got the 2023 Big Ten Championships started in record-setting fashion Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Golden Gophers opened the competition by breaking the school record in the 200 medley relay, then followed with another stellar time in the 800 free relay to put themselves in a three-way tie for fourth place through two events.
Ohio State and Indiana are tied atop the leaderboard with 118 points each followed by host-Michigan in third at 112 points. Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin are all deadlocked next with 100 points.
The 200 medley relay saw the relay team of junior Casey Stowe, fifth-year senior captain Max McHugh, senior Shane Rozeboom and redshirt junior Lucas Farrar swim the event in a time of 1:24.21, bettering the mark of 1:24.25 set at the 2018 Big Ten Championships.
Stowe led off with a 21.92 split in the backstroke, followed by McHugh's 22.57 mark in the breaststroke. Rozeboom swam the breaststroke in 20.58, while Farrar anchored the freestyle in 19.14. The overall time was good for sixth place Wednesday.
The other night on the schedule was the 800 freestyle relay with sophomores Chris Morris and Bar Soloveychik, junior Kaiser Neverman and freshman Alberto Hernandez finishing in a time of 6:18.85. That's the second-best mark in school history, with the only better performance coming by the same relay team at this year's Minnesota Invite when they swam in a school-record 6:16.25.
Morris led off with a time of 1:34.55, his second fastest this year, while Soloveychik (1:33.46), Neverman (1:34.42) and Hernandez (1:36.42) followed for the Gophers.
Thursday's schedule includes the prelims of the 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and 1-meter diving, plus the 400 medley relay in the evening session.
The Golden Gophers opened the competition by breaking the school record in the 200 medley relay, then followed with another stellar time in the 800 free relay to put themselves in a three-way tie for fourth place through two events.
Ohio State and Indiana are tied atop the leaderboard with 118 points each followed by host-Michigan in third at 112 points. Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin are all deadlocked next with 100 points.
The 200 medley relay saw the relay team of junior Casey Stowe, fifth-year senior captain Max McHugh, senior Shane Rozeboom and redshirt junior Lucas Farrar swim the event in a time of 1:24.21, bettering the mark of 1:24.25 set at the 2018 Big Ten Championships.
Stowe led off with a 21.92 split in the backstroke, followed by McHugh's 22.57 mark in the breaststroke. Rozeboom swam the breaststroke in 20.58, while Farrar anchored the freestyle in 19.14. The overall time was good for sixth place Wednesday.
The other night on the schedule was the 800 freestyle relay with sophomores Chris Morris and Bar Soloveychik, junior Kaiser Neverman and freshman Alberto Hernandez finishing in a time of 6:18.85. That's the second-best mark in school history, with the only better performance coming by the same relay team at this year's Minnesota Invite when they swam in a school-record 6:16.25.
Morris led off with a time of 1:34.55, his second fastest this year, while Soloveychik (1:33.46), Neverman (1:34.42) and Hernandez (1:36.42) followed for the Gophers.
Thursday's schedule includes the prelims of the 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and 1-meter diving, plus the 400 medley relay in the evening session.
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