Friday Results | Dive-by-Dive Scoring | Meet Central
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Four top five finishes in A finals coupled with four Boilermakers scoring in two different events helped Purdue men's swimming and diving remain in fourth place Friday at the Big Ten Championships.
The Boilermakers (252.5 Points) will enter the final day of competition Saturday with a 2.5-point lead on fifth-place Wisconsin and a 10.5-point advantage on sixth-place Minnesota. If Purdue can hold on to fourth place through Saturday night, it would match the program's highest finish (most recently in 2010).
Steele Johnson finished as the runner-up in the championship final of 3-meter diving, taking second in a springboard event for the second night in a row. The freshman improved on his second-best score in program history in the finals (476.05 points), but it was not enough to beat Indiana's James Conner (494.60).
Guillermo Blanco (4th in 400 IM), Lyam Dias (4th in 100 breast) and Jamie Bissett (5th on 3-meter) also recorded top five finishes in the A finals of their primary events Friday. Including Johnson, the four top fives accrued 61 team points for Purdue.
Danny Conway won the B final of the 400 IM in a race that also featured Jan Karel Petric and Adam Noens. The Boilers scored 29 team points in the event. Nate Cox and Sean Mokhtari qualified for the consolation final of 3-meter diving to push Purdue's point total in that event to 39.
Conway's career-best time of 3:47.73 while winning the B final of the 400 IM was good for fifth fastest in program history. Petric improved on his career-best time (3:48.60) in the prelims and Adam Noens (3:50.36) moved into eighth place on the program's all-time list. Josh Brooks won the C final of the 400 IM.
Stephen Seliskar (47.53) and Austin Flager (47.54) finished one hundredth of a second apart in the prelims of the 100 butterfly to qualify for the B final, moving up into fourth and fifth place in Purdue history, respectively.
Seliskar and Flager were also part of Purdue's 200 free relay team, joining forces with Nate Thomas and Adam Johnston to post the fifth-fastest time (1:18.92) in program history while finishing sixth. Johnston led the way with an anchor split of 19.28.
Freshman Marat Amaltdinov qualified for the B final of the 100 breast and improved on his sixth-fastest time (53.96) in program history in the prelims.
Despite opting not to race in the C final of the event in the evening session, Jes Stephens (1:37.04) and Josh Ehrman (1:37.89) moved into the all-time Top 10 rankings in the 200 freestyle after posting career-best times in the prelims.
The final day of the Big Ten Championships features prelims at noon ET and finals at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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Team Scoring
1. #5 Michigan, 529
2. #8 Ohio State, 372
3. #9 Indiana, 372
4. Purdue, 252.5
5. #19 Wisconsin, 250
6. #22 Minnesota, 242
7. #24 Penn State, 169
8. #21 Iowa, 151.5
9. Northwestern, 125
10. Michigan State, 65
Purdue's Top Finishers & Notables
* - New Purdue Season-Best Time/Score
^ - New Personal Season-Best Time/Score
(B) - NCAA Provisional Qualifying Time
(Z) - NCAA Zone Qualifying Score
3-Meter Diving
Steele Johnson, 476.05* (Z) - Finished 2nd in A Final (17 Points); Improved on His 2nd Best Score in Program History
Jamie Bissett, 435.96 (Z) - Finished 5th in A Final (14 Points)
Nate Cox, 351.30^ (Z) - Finished 4th in B Final (5 Points)
Sean Mokhtari, 337.00^ (Z, Prelim Score) - Finished 6th in B Final (3 Points)
200 Free
Jes Stephens, 1:37.04* (B, Prelim Time) - Scratched From C Final; 6th Fastest in Program History
Josh Ehrman, 1:37.89^ (B, Prelim Time) - Scratched From C Final; T-10th Fastest in Program History
100 Back
Stephen Seliskar, 48.22 (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 6th in C Final
100 Breast
Lyam Dias, 52.72* (B) - Finished 4th in A Final (15 Points)
Marat Amaltdinov, 53.96^ (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 8th in B Final (1 Point); Improved on His 6th Fastest Time in Program History
100 Fly
Austin Flager, 47.54^ (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 5th in B Final (4 Points); T-5th Fastest in Program History
Stephen Seliskar, 47.53* (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 7th in B Final (2 Points); 4th Fastest in Program History
400 IM
Guillermo Blanco, 3:44.47* (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 4th in A Final (15 Points)
Danny Conway, 3:47.73^ (B) - Won B Final (9 Points); 5th Fastest in Program History
Jan Karel Petric, 3:48.60^ (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 5th in B Final (4 Points); Improved on His 6th Fastest Time in Program History
Adam Noens, 3:50.36^ (B, Prelim Time) - Finished 8th in B Final (1 Point); 8th Fastest in Program History
Josh Brooks, 3:49.12^ (B) - Won C Final
200 Free Relay
Flager, Seliskar, N. Thomas & Johnston, 1:18.92 (B) - Finished 6th (26 Points); 5th Fastest in Program History
New Purdue Records Established at 2015 Big Ten Championships
100 Back (Thursday)
Stephen Seliskar, 47.42 (On Opening Leg of 400 Medley Relay)
200 IM (Thursday)
Guillermo Blanco,1:43.87
200 Medley Relay (Wednesday)
Seliskar, Dias, Blanco & Flager, 1:26.57
800 Free Relay (Wednesday)
Blanco, Petric, Ehrman & Brooks, 6:27.10