WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Maycey Vieta's Big Ten title and another All-America performance on the tower coupled with the Boilermakers accounting for three of the top five finishers in the event at the Big Ten Championships highlighted Purdue women's swimming & diving's 2022-23 season.
Vieta and Maggie Merriman teamed up to give the Purdue women their first-ever 1-2 finish in an event at Big Tens. The Boilermakers scored 100 points on the tower for the second year in a row, with Sophie McAfee placing fifth and Daryn Wright 10th. Purdue's 237 team points in the diving events at Big Tens were tops at the conference championship meet.
Season Recaps: 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022
Fours were wild for Merriman as she closed out her college career as a fifth-year student-athlete. For the fourth time each – she medaled at Big Tens, qualified for the NCAA Championships and earned All-America honors. She joined Purdue Hall of Famer Casey Matthews among Purdue's female divers to medal at four different Big Tens while becoming the first to do so in four-consecutive fashion. She became the fifth Purdue diver (second female) to be a four-year NCAAs qualifier. She was also the Boilermakers' first female diver (and third overall) to be a four-year All-American.
Vieta, Merriman and McAfee all scored at the NCAA Championships to help the Boilermakers finish 24th in the team scoring, the program's 13th top-25 showing since 2005. Vieta, Merriman and McAfee all finished top 10 in an event. Texas was the only other university with multiple divers earn All-America honors on platform via top-16 finishes.
Among the swimmers, Lindsay Turner closed out her career as a four-year scorer at Big Tens. Maggie Love was a two-time Big Ten Swimmer of the Week, the first Boilermaker to accomplish the feat since the 2015-16 campaign. Love posted four career-best times that moved her up Purdue's all-time lists.
Hannah Hill moved into third place in program history in the 50 freestyle (22.56) while winning the C final of the event at Big Tens. She posted Purdue's best time in the event in a decade. The next day, she teamed up with Love, Kendra Bowen and Kendal Schreder to post the Boilermakers' fourth-fastest time (1:30.74) in the 200 free relay. Again, it was the team's best mark in a decade. Kate Beavon's career best in the 1,000 free (9:47.32) moved her into third place in team history.
Abby Marcukaitis broke the program's freshman record in the 100 backstroke in the season-opening meet and Wright eclipsed both springboard diving freshman marks in Purdue's first visit to Champaign since 1991. The freshman diving records had stood for more than a decade. Wright also followed in McAfee's footsteps in sweeping the consolation finals of the springboard events at Big Tens. In December, she won bronze on the tower at the USA Diving Winter Nationals.
Vieta won her first Big Ten title, pairing a gold medal with the silvers she won in the event in 2020 and 2022. She became the Purdue women's seventh Big Ten diving champ and first since Emily Bretscher won on 3-meter in 2020. The Boilermakers' last Big Ten champion on the tower had been Emily Wetzel in 2009. Vieta was recognized as Purdue Athletics' Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient, the 11th honoree from the pool since 2011.
Merriman accounted for 168 team points at Big Tens in her career. Vieta is close behind with 164 over four years. McAfee's six top-10 finishes as an underclassman already has her at 132 points in her career at Big Tens.
McAfee, Love, Hill, Wright and Marckuaitis headline the Boilermakers projected to return for the 2023-24 season. Beavon, Bowen and Vieta are also expected to return as fifth-year student-athletes. Purdue is slated to host the 2024 Big Ten Championships in February.
ALL-AMERICA
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICA
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIIFERS
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
• Daryn Wright – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
BIG TEN CHAMPION & FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
BIG TEN MEDALIST & SECOND TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
BIG TEN MEDAL OF HONOR
• Maycey Vieta
USA DIVING MEDALIST
• Daryn Wright – Bronze on 10-Meter at Winter Nationals
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES MEDALIST
• Sophie McAfee – Bronze on 10-Meter
CENTRAL AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN GAMES MEDALIST
• Maycey Vieta – Bronze on 10-Meter & Mixed 10-Meter Synchro for Puerto Rico
WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
• Maycey Vieta – 10-Meter Diving for Puerto Rico
• Kate Beavon – Open Water for South Africa
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES QUALIFIER
• Sophie McAfee – 10-Meter, Mixed 10-Meter Synchro, Mixed Team Diving for USA
PURDUE FRESHMAN RECORDS
• Daryn Wright – 321.60 in 1-Meter Diving, 354.53 in 3-Meter Diving
• Abby Marcukaitis – 54.32 in 100 Back
SCORED IN ALL 3 OF HER INDIVIDUAL EVENTS AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Sophie McAfee – Diving
• Daryn Wright – Diving
BIG TEN WEEKLY AWARDS
• Maggie Love – Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 19 & Jan. 11)
• Daryn Wright – Diver of the Week (Jan. 11); Freshman of the Week (Jan. 11 & Jan. 25)
CSCAA NATIONAL INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
• Kelsey Cooper – 50, 100 & 200 Back; 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Masy Folcik – 50, 100 & 200 Breast; 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Hannah Hill – 50 & 100 Free, 50 Fly, 200 & 400 Free Relays, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Maggie Love – 50 & 100 Breast; 50 Free, 200 IM, 200 & 400 Free Relays, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Ashley Lund – 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Reagan Mattice – 200, 500, 1000/1650 Free; 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Kali Sayovitz – 100 & 200 Free, 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Cecilie Wiuff – 100 & 200 Fly, 400 Medley Relay
CAREER BESTS TO MOVE UP OR JOIN PURDUE RECORD BOOK
• Hannah Hill – 3rd in 50 Free (22.56)
• Kate Beavon – 3rd in 1000 Free (9:47.32)
• 200 Free Relay Team – 4th (1:30.74)
…Hill, Love, Bowen, Schreder
• Maggie Love – 6th in 100 Breast (1:00.81), 9th in 200 IM (2:00.01), 13th in 50 Free (22.96), 14th in 100 Free (49.84)
• Abby Marcukaitis – 7th in 100 Back (54.32)
• Kendra Bowen – 8th in 100 Free (49.70)
• Mahala Erlandson – 9th in 200 Breast (2:15.68)
• Cecilie Wiuff – 9th in 200 Fly (1:59.22)
• 400 Free Relay – 9th (3:18.98)
…Bowen, Love, Hill, Schreder
• Daryn Wright – 10th on 1-Meter (321.60), 10th on 3-Meter (354.53), 12th on Platform (309.60)
• Kelsey Cooper – 11th in 200 Back (1:58.39)
• Sophie McAfee – 14th on 3-Meter (347.30)
SOUTH AFRICIAN OPEN WATER 5K CHAMPION
• Kate Beavon – 1:02:13 in March during Spring Break
COMPETED AT CSCAA OPEN WATER NATIONALS
• Kate Beavon
• Reagan Mattice
• Abby Jahns
• Evie Sierra
• Madeline Greaves
TEAM GPAs
• Fall Semester:
• Spring Semester: 3.43
• Cumulative: 3.51
• CSCAA Scholar All-America Team
• 12 Consecutive Semesters with a Team GPA of 3.4+
BIG TEN SPORTSMANSHIP HONOREE
• Rachel Young
CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT (4 HONOREES PER TEAM WITH 3.5+ CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Maggie Merriman
• Kat Mueller
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Maycey Vieta
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN (3.0+ CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Claire Abbasse
• Kendra Bowen
• Mahala Erlandson
• Masy Folcik
• Amy Fu
• Madeline Greaves
• Elissa Haake
• Abby Harter
• Michaela Herwig
• Maggie Love
• Sophie McAfee
• Maggie Merriman
• Teagen Moon
• Kat Mueller
• Angelina Rossi
• Kali Sayovitz
• Kendal Schreder
• Evie Sierra
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Lindsay Turner
• Erin Verbrugge
• Maycey Vieta
• Leanna Wall
• Cecilie Wiuff
• Rachel Young
BIG TEN DISTINGUSHED SCHOLARS (3.7+ YEARLY OR CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Claire Abbasse
• Kendra Bowen
• Abby Harter
• Sophie McAfee
• Maggie Merriman
• Kat Mueller
• Kendal Schreder
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Lindsay Turner
• Maycey Vieta
• Leanna Wall
• Rachel Young
CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT)
• Sophie McAfee – First Team
• Maggie Merriman – First Team
• Maycey Vieta – First Team
• Maggie Love – Second Team
• Kaitlin Simons – Second Team
• Jenna Sonnenberg – Second Team
• Lindsay Turner – Second Team
Vieta and Maggie Merriman teamed up to give the Purdue women their first-ever 1-2 finish in an event at Big Tens. The Boilermakers scored 100 points on the tower for the second year in a row, with Sophie McAfee placing fifth and Daryn Wright 10th. Purdue's 237 team points in the diving events at Big Tens were tops at the conference championship meet.
Season Recaps: 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022
Fours were wild for Merriman as she closed out her college career as a fifth-year student-athlete. For the fourth time each – she medaled at Big Tens, qualified for the NCAA Championships and earned All-America honors. She joined Purdue Hall of Famer Casey Matthews among Purdue's female divers to medal at four different Big Tens while becoming the first to do so in four-consecutive fashion. She became the fifth Purdue diver (second female) to be a four-year NCAAs qualifier. She was also the Boilermakers' first female diver (and third overall) to be a four-year All-American.
Vieta, Merriman and McAfee all scored at the NCAA Championships to help the Boilermakers finish 24th in the team scoring, the program's 13th top-25 showing since 2005. Vieta, Merriman and McAfee all finished top 10 in an event. Texas was the only other university with multiple divers earn All-America honors on platform via top-16 finishes.
Among the swimmers, Lindsay Turner closed out her career as a four-year scorer at Big Tens. Maggie Love was a two-time Big Ten Swimmer of the Week, the first Boilermaker to accomplish the feat since the 2015-16 campaign. Love posted four career-best times that moved her up Purdue's all-time lists.
Hannah Hill moved into third place in program history in the 50 freestyle (22.56) while winning the C final of the event at Big Tens. She posted Purdue's best time in the event in a decade. The next day, she teamed up with Love, Kendra Bowen and Kendal Schreder to post the Boilermakers' fourth-fastest time (1:30.74) in the 200 free relay. Again, it was the team's best mark in a decade. Kate Beavon's career best in the 1,000 free (9:47.32) moved her into third place in team history.
Abby Marcukaitis broke the program's freshman record in the 100 backstroke in the season-opening meet and Wright eclipsed both springboard diving freshman marks in Purdue's first visit to Champaign since 1991. The freshman diving records had stood for more than a decade. Wright also followed in McAfee's footsteps in sweeping the consolation finals of the springboard events at Big Tens. In December, she won bronze on the tower at the USA Diving Winter Nationals.
Vieta won her first Big Ten title, pairing a gold medal with the silvers she won in the event in 2020 and 2022. She became the Purdue women's seventh Big Ten diving champ and first since Emily Bretscher won on 3-meter in 2020. The Boilermakers' last Big Ten champion on the tower had been Emily Wetzel in 2009. Vieta was recognized as Purdue Athletics' Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient, the 11th honoree from the pool since 2011.
Merriman accounted for 168 team points at Big Tens in her career. Vieta is close behind with 164 over four years. McAfee's six top-10 finishes as an underclassman already has her at 132 points in her career at Big Tens.
McAfee, Love, Hill, Wright and Marckuaitis headline the Boilermakers projected to return for the 2023-24 season. Beavon, Bowen and Vieta are also expected to return as fifth-year student-athletes. Purdue is slated to host the 2024 Big Ten Championships in February.
ALL-AMERICA
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICA
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIIFERS
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
• Daryn Wright – 3-Meter & Platform Diving
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
BIG TEN CHAMPION & FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
• Maycey Vieta – Platform Diving
BIG TEN MEDALIST & SECOND TEAM ALL-BIG TEN
• Maggie Merriman – Platform Diving
BIG TEN MEDAL OF HONOR
• Maycey Vieta
USA DIVING MEDALIST
• Daryn Wright – Bronze on 10-Meter at Winter Nationals
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES MEDALIST
• Sophie McAfee – Bronze on 10-Meter
CENTRAL AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN GAMES MEDALIST
• Maycey Vieta – Bronze on 10-Meter & Mixed 10-Meter Synchro for Puerto Rico
WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
• Maycey Vieta – 10-Meter Diving for Puerto Rico
• Kate Beavon – Open Water for South Africa
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES QUALIFIER
• Sophie McAfee – 10-Meter, Mixed 10-Meter Synchro, Mixed Team Diving for USA
PURDUE FRESHMAN RECORDS
• Daryn Wright – 321.60 in 1-Meter Diving, 354.53 in 3-Meter Diving
• Abby Marcukaitis – 54.32 in 100 Back
SCORED IN ALL 3 OF HER INDIVIDUAL EVENTS AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Sophie McAfee – Diving
• Daryn Wright – Diving
BIG TEN WEEKLY AWARDS
• Maggie Love – Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 19 & Jan. 11)
• Daryn Wright – Diver of the Week (Jan. 11); Freshman of the Week (Jan. 11 & Jan. 25)
CSCAA NATIONAL INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
• Kelsey Cooper – 50, 100 & 200 Back; 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Masy Folcik – 50, 100 & 200 Breast; 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Hannah Hill – 50 & 100 Free, 50 Fly, 200 & 400 Free Relays, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Maggie Love – 50 & 100 Breast; 50 Free, 200 IM, 200 & 400 Free Relays, 200 & 400 Medley Relays
• Ashley Lund – 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Reagan Mattice – 200, 500, 1000/1650 Free; 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Kali Sayovitz – 100 & 200 Free, 200 & 400 Free Relays
• Cecilie Wiuff – 100 & 200 Fly, 400 Medley Relay
CAREER BESTS TO MOVE UP OR JOIN PURDUE RECORD BOOK
• Hannah Hill – 3rd in 50 Free (22.56)
• Kate Beavon – 3rd in 1000 Free (9:47.32)
• 200 Free Relay Team – 4th (1:30.74)
…Hill, Love, Bowen, Schreder
• Maggie Love – 6th in 100 Breast (1:00.81), 9th in 200 IM (2:00.01), 13th in 50 Free (22.96), 14th in 100 Free (49.84)
• Abby Marcukaitis – 7th in 100 Back (54.32)
• Kendra Bowen – 8th in 100 Free (49.70)
• Mahala Erlandson – 9th in 200 Breast (2:15.68)
• Cecilie Wiuff – 9th in 200 Fly (1:59.22)
• 400 Free Relay – 9th (3:18.98)
…Bowen, Love, Hill, Schreder
• Daryn Wright – 10th on 1-Meter (321.60), 10th on 3-Meter (354.53), 12th on Platform (309.60)
• Kelsey Cooper – 11th in 200 Back (1:58.39)
• Sophie McAfee – 14th on 3-Meter (347.30)
SOUTH AFRICIAN OPEN WATER 5K CHAMPION
• Kate Beavon – 1:02:13 in March during Spring Break
COMPETED AT CSCAA OPEN WATER NATIONALS
• Kate Beavon
• Reagan Mattice
• Abby Jahns
• Evie Sierra
• Madeline Greaves
TEAM GPAs
• Fall Semester:
• Spring Semester: 3.43
• Cumulative: 3.51
• CSCAA Scholar All-America Team
• 12 Consecutive Semesters with a Team GPA of 3.4+
BIG TEN SPORTSMANSHIP HONOREE
• Rachel Young
CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT (4 HONOREES PER TEAM WITH 3.5+ CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Maggie Merriman
• Kat Mueller
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Maycey Vieta
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN (3.0+ CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Claire Abbasse
• Kendra Bowen
• Mahala Erlandson
• Masy Folcik
• Amy Fu
• Madeline Greaves
• Elissa Haake
• Abby Harter
• Michaela Herwig
• Maggie Love
• Sophie McAfee
• Maggie Merriman
• Teagen Moon
• Kat Mueller
• Angelina Rossi
• Kali Sayovitz
• Kendal Schreder
• Evie Sierra
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Lindsay Turner
• Erin Verbrugge
• Maycey Vieta
• Leanna Wall
• Cecilie Wiuff
• Rachel Young
BIG TEN DISTINGUSHED SCHOLARS (3.7+ YEARLY OR CUMULATIVE GPA)
• Claire Abbasse
• Kendra Bowen
• Abby Harter
• Sophie McAfee
• Maggie Merriman
• Kat Mueller
• Kendal Schreder
• Jenna Sonnenberg
• Lindsay Turner
• Maycey Vieta
• Leanna Wall
• Rachel Young
CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA (3.5+ GPA & ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT)
• Sophie McAfee – First Team
• Maggie Merriman – First Team
• Maycey Vieta – First Team
• Maggie Love – Second Team
• Kaitlin Simons – Second Team
• Jenna Sonnenberg – Second Team
• Lindsay Turner – Second Team