North Central, Millikin, IWU Results, Jan. 26, 2018
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- The Illinois Wesleyan men's and women's swimming and diving teams celebrated Seniors' Night and their Pink Zone event with dual meet wins over North Central and Millikin at Fort Natatorium on Friday, Jan. 26.
The IWU men have an 2-5 record in dual meets after defeating North Central, 127-46, and Millikin, 122-40. The Titan women's team is now 4-3 after downing Millikin, 143-60, and North Central, 114-95.
The Millikin men are 3-4 and the Big Blue women have a 4-3 record. North Central's men's team is 4-8 and the women had a five-meet win streak snapped and have a dual mark of 8-4.
Prior to the meet, the Titans celebrated the careers of five seniors -
Rob Houle,
Morgan Bishop,
Jordan Miller,
Nicole Lee and
Tori Tiberi.
For the women,
Claire Michael (1650 free and 1000 free) and
Amber Gauthier (1- and 3-meter diving) were double winners, while
Will Garcia (1650 free, 100 free, 1000 free) and
Nick Partipilo (200 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 100 breaststroke) won three individual events for the men's team.
The listing of Illinois Wesleyan first-place finishes:
1650 Yard Freestyle - Michael, 18:48.01
1000 Yard Freestyle - Michael, 11:25.54
200 Yard Freestyle -
Laurin Ebert, 2:08.25
1 mtr Diving - Gauthier, 201.20
3 mtr Diving - Gauthier, 199.50
100 Yard Freestyle -
Lexi Weiss, 1:02.90
500 Yard Freestyle -
Lucy Saucedo, 5:23.98
1650 Yard Freestyle - Garcia, 16:45.44
100 Yard Freestyle - Garcia, 49.71
1000 Yard Freestyle - Garcia, 10:13.41
50 Yard Freestyle - Houle, 21.55
200 Yard IM - Partipilo, 2:05.28
100 Yard Butterfly - Partipilo, 56.79
100 Yard Breaststroke - Partipilo, 1:03.52
100 Yard Backstroke - Miller, 57.41
500 Yard Freestyle -
Will Brinkmann, 5:14.42
200 Yard Medley Relay - 1:43.03 (Miller,
Oscar Schmidt, Bishop, Houle)
200 Yard Freestyle Relay - 1:33.31 (Garcia, Houle,
Luke Witteveen, Brinkmann)
What's Next?
On Saturday, the Titan teams swim against Franklin (Ind.) College at 1 p.m. ET. Prior to a Friday night meet at Rose-Hulman, the Franklin men have a 5-3 dual meet record and the Grizzlies women's team is an unblemished 9-0 in dual meets this year.
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