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MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Women at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 20 to 23
11 a.m. ET Prelims, 6:30 p.m. Finals / BTN Plus on BTN2Go
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue women's swimming & diving trains all year for the championship portion of the season, which begins this week with the seven-session Big Ten Championships at Indiana's pool in Bloomington.
Action at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center begins Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. ET and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for 11 a.m. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 6:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 1 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to noon ET. BTN Plus on BTN2Go will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of all seven sessions.
SENIOR SALUTE
• Seniors Morgan Meixner, Taite Kitchel, Lexi Vincent, Cady Farlow, Emily Meckstroth and Jackie Smailis all have an opportunity to close out their careers as Boilermakers to score all four years at the Big Ten Championships. Kitchel and Smailis teamed with Jinq En Phee and Danielle Auckley to help the Boilermakers set program records in both medley relays at Big Tens a year ago.
• Smailis is in line to swim on a relay at Big Tens for the fourth year in a row. As a freshman in 2016, she eclipsed Purdue's freshman record in the 100 backstroke on the opening leg of the record-setting 400 medley relay. Cady Farlow and Auckley joined Smailis on the 200 medley relay team that set a program record in the event in 2017 as the Boilermakers hosted the conference championship meet. Purdue has established a relay record at Big Tens each of the last four years.
• Tessa Wrightson (54.54 in 100 back) and Jade Knueppel (23.06 in 100 free) eclipsed Purdue freshman records at the IU Invitational in November. They could poised for breakout weeks in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
PURDUE'S CHAMPIONSHIP FINALISTS AND TOP SCORERS IN 2018
• Eight Boilermakers qualified for at least one championship final at the 2018 Big Ten Championships. Five are still active members of the program.
• Emily Meaney – 3rd in Platform Diving
• Jinq En Phee – 5th in 100 Breast
• Emily Bretscher – 5th in Platform Diving
• Morgan Meixner – 6th in 1-Meter Diving, 7th in 3-Meter Diving
• Taite Kitchel – 7th in both 100 and 200 Fly
• Of the 18 Boilermakers that scored in an individual event at Big Tens last year, 15 remain active student-athletes. Bretscher scored in all three diving events as a freshman. Maggie Merriman and Meaney are also entered in all three diving events this year. Alex Clarke, Kitchel and Smailis scored in all three of their individual events as sophomores in 2017.
PURDUE RECORDS SET LAST TIME BIG TENS WAS IN BLOOMINGTON
• Indiana is hosting the meet for the first time since 2011, a year in which Purdue eclipsed 12 program records at the Big Ten Championships. Seven individual marks and all five relay records were established that week in Bloomington. The times posted by the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams still stand.
FAMILIAR LOCATION
• This season marks the third during John Klinge's 11-year tenure as head coach in which Big Tens is being held at the same aquatic center as Purdue's fall invitational of choice. The Boilermakers opted to compete at the IU Invitational in November this season. The locations also doubled up in 2009-10 (West Lafayette) and 2014-15 (Columbus). The Boilermakers finished among the top five at Big Tens both previous years.
• Numerous Purdue student-athletes also raced for Boilermaker Aquatics at the 2018 Indiana Senior State Championships, an annual summer long-course meet held that was held in Bloomington this past July.
BOILERMAKERS AMONG BIG TEN TOP 20
Via season-best times/scores compiled by CollegeSwimming.com
• Emily Bretscher: 3rd on 3-Meter, 4th on 1-Meter, 14th on Platform
• Taite Kitchel: 7th in 200 Fly, 9th in 100 Fly, 15th in 400 IM
• Jinq En Phee: 7th in 100 Breast, 15th in 200 Breast
• Emily Meaney: 9th on Platform, 19th on 3-Meter
• Morgan Meixner: 9th on 1-Meter
• Jackie Smailis: 12th in 100 Back, 18th in 200 Back, 20th in 50 Free
• Emily Meckstroth: 14th in 1,650 Free
• Cady Farlow: 15th in 100 Breast, 17th in 200 Breast
• Riley Kishman: 19th in 100 Breast
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 3 Michigan, No. 17 Indiana, No. 22 Minnesota, No. 24 Wisconsin
• Michigan has won the last three Big Ten titles. Minnesota won four straight before that. Indiana won as the host the last time the meet was held in Bloomington.
YEAR FOUR OF THE NEW SCORING BREAKDOWN
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34-32-30-28
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Casey Matthews – 1-Meter, 2014
• Swimming: Carlene Takaki – 200 Fly, 2006
MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Women at the Big Ten Championships
Wednesday to Saturday, Feb. 20 to 23
11 a.m. ET Prelims, 6:30 p.m. Finals / BTN Plus on BTN2Go
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue women's swimming & diving trains all year for the championship portion of the season, which begins this week with the seven-session Big Ten Championships at Indiana's pool in Bloomington.
Action at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center begins Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. ET and continues through Saturday night. The opening session features the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. Preliminaries are set for 11 a.m. Relays are contested, Big Ten champions determined and team points earned in the evening finals, which begin nightly at 6:30 p.m. Diving prelims begin daily at 1 p.m. as the afternoon bridge between the sessions.
The Big Ten Network will televise the Saturday finals session Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to noon ET. BTN Plus on BTN2Go will also be offering live pay-per-view webcast coverage of all seven sessions.
SENIOR SALUTE
• Seniors Morgan Meixner, Taite Kitchel, Lexi Vincent, Cady Farlow, Emily Meckstroth and Jackie Smailis all have an opportunity to close out their careers as Boilermakers to score all four years at the Big Ten Championships. Kitchel and Smailis teamed with Jinq En Phee and Danielle Auckley to help the Boilermakers set program records in both medley relays at Big Tens a year ago.
• Smailis is in line to swim on a relay at Big Tens for the fourth year in a row. As a freshman in 2016, she eclipsed Purdue's freshman record in the 100 backstroke on the opening leg of the record-setting 400 medley relay. Cady Farlow and Auckley joined Smailis on the 200 medley relay team that set a program record in the event in 2017 as the Boilermakers hosted the conference championship meet. Purdue has established a relay record at Big Tens each of the last four years.
• Tessa Wrightson (54.54 in 100 back) and Jade Knueppel (23.06 in 100 free) eclipsed Purdue freshman records at the IU Invitational in November. They could poised for breakout weeks in their debuts at the Big Ten Championships.
PURDUE'S CHAMPIONSHIP FINALISTS AND TOP SCORERS IN 2018
• Eight Boilermakers qualified for at least one championship final at the 2018 Big Ten Championships. Five are still active members of the program.
• Emily Meaney – 3rd in Platform Diving
• Jinq En Phee – 5th in 100 Breast
• Emily Bretscher – 5th in Platform Diving
• Morgan Meixner – 6th in 1-Meter Diving, 7th in 3-Meter Diving
• Taite Kitchel – 7th in both 100 and 200 Fly
• Of the 18 Boilermakers that scored in an individual event at Big Tens last year, 15 remain active student-athletes. Bretscher scored in all three diving events as a freshman. Maggie Merriman and Meaney are also entered in all three diving events this year. Alex Clarke, Kitchel and Smailis scored in all three of their individual events as sophomores in 2017.
PURDUE RECORDS SET LAST TIME BIG TENS WAS IN BLOOMINGTON
• Indiana is hosting the meet for the first time since 2011, a year in which Purdue eclipsed 12 program records at the Big Ten Championships. Seven individual marks and all five relay records were established that week in Bloomington. The times posted by the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams still stand.
| EVENT | BOILERMAKER | TIME/SCORE |
| 3-Meter Diving | Erin Mertz | 388.35 |
| Platform Diving | Kara Cook | 349.55 |
| 100 Freestyle | Ariel Martin | 48.68 |
| 200 Freestyle | Ariel Martin | 1:45.25 |
| 500 Freestyle | Caitlin Hamilton | 4:43.07 |
| 100 Backstroke | Allie Smith | 52.81 |
| 200 Breaststroke | Emily Fogle | 2:10.57 |
| 200 Free Relay | Martin, Butler, Nichols, Gustafson | 1:29.70 |
| 400 Free Relay | Martin, Butler, Roth, Gustafson | 3:17.47 |
| 800 Free Relay | Martin, Butler, Roth, Gustafson | 7:06.90 |
| 200 Medley Relay | Smith, Fogle, Butler, Martin | 1:39.40 |
| 400 Medley Relay | Smith, Fogle, Roth, Gustafson | 3:38.13 |
FAMILIAR LOCATION
• This season marks the third during John Klinge's 11-year tenure as head coach in which Big Tens is being held at the same aquatic center as Purdue's fall invitational of choice. The Boilermakers opted to compete at the IU Invitational in November this season. The locations also doubled up in 2009-10 (West Lafayette) and 2014-15 (Columbus). The Boilermakers finished among the top five at Big Tens both previous years.
• Numerous Purdue student-athletes also raced for Boilermaker Aquatics at the 2018 Indiana Senior State Championships, an annual summer long-course meet held that was held in Bloomington this past July.
BOILERMAKERS AMONG BIG TEN TOP 20
Via season-best times/scores compiled by CollegeSwimming.com
• Emily Bretscher: 3rd on 3-Meter, 4th on 1-Meter, 14th on Platform
• Taite Kitchel: 7th in 200 Fly, 9th in 100 Fly, 15th in 400 IM
• Jinq En Phee: 7th in 100 Breast, 15th in 200 Breast
• Emily Meaney: 9th on Platform, 19th on 3-Meter
• Morgan Meixner: 9th on 1-Meter
• Jackie Smailis: 12th in 100 Back, 18th in 200 Back, 20th in 50 Free
• Emily Meckstroth: 14th in 1,650 Free
• Cady Farlow: 15th in 100 Breast, 17th in 200 Breast
• Riley Kishman: 19th in 100 Breast
BIG TEN'S RANKED TEAMS IN CSCAA TOP 25
• No. 3 Michigan, No. 17 Indiana, No. 22 Minnesota, No. 24 Wisconsin
• Michigan has won the last three Big Ten titles. Minnesota won four straight before that. Indiana won as the host the last time the meet was held in Bloomington.
YEAR FOUR OF THE NEW SCORING BREAKDOWN
• A Final: 32-28-27-26-25-24-23-22
• B Final: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11
• C Final: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (and 17th through 24th in Diving Prelims)
• Relays: 64-56-54-52-50-48-46-44-40-34-32-30-28
PURDUE'S MOST RECENT BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
• Diving: Casey Matthews – 1-Meter, 2014
• Swimming: Carlene Takaki – 200 Fly, 2006