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BIG TEN MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS Dear Big Ten Fans: TABLE OF CONTENTS am honored and blessed to welcome I you to the 2020-21 Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. Big Life. Big Stage. Penn State We are incredibly grateful for the Big Ten. Nittany Lions strategic and tireless efforts and collaboration of our student-athletes, coaches, athletic Illinois Purdue directors, athletic training and medical personnel, Council Fighting Illini Boilermakers of Presidents and Chancellors, families and fans to make the Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Indiana Rutgers Championships a reality. Hoosiers Scarlet Knights Thank you to our partners at Minnesota, Ohio State and Iowa Wisconsin Purdue and the cities of Minneapolis, Columbus and West Hawkeyes Badgers Lafayette, for their support and hospitality. Michigan Men’s Championship Enjoy the Championships, stay safe and God bless. Wolverines History Michigan State Men’s Championship Spartans Records and Honors Kevin Warren Minnesota Men’s All-Big Ten Commissioner | Big Ten Conference Golden Gophers Selections Nebraska Women’s Championship Cornhuskers History Northwestern Women’s Championship Wildcats Records and Honors Ohio State Women’s All-Big Buckeyes Ten Selections For a list of B1G Championships click here! BIG LIFE. BIG STAGE. BIG TEN. 1 @BIGTENCHAMPS Big Life. Big Stage. Big Ten. Since its inception in 1896, the pursuit and attainment of academic excellence has been a priority for every Big Ten member institution. But maintaining the conference’s standard of competing at the highest level in athletics also endures as an important component of the Big Ten experience. Striking that balance between academics and athletics is integral to the Big Ten’s identity. Recognized as one of intercollegiate sports’ most successful undertakings, the Big Ten strives for success from its students not only on the field and in the classroom, but around the world as well. PREMIER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS LEADERS IN INNOVATION The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of all 14 Big Ten Took part in the nation’s first bowl game, winning the 1902 Rose Bowl universities, which is widely considered to be the model for effective and Game, and signed an exclusive contract with the Tournament of Roses voluntary collaboration among top research universities. in 1946, making it the first bowl with permanent conference affiliations. Every Big Ten Academic Alliance institution ranks among the top 70 Awarded the first Big Ten Medal of Honor in 1915, honoring outstanding universities in the nation according to the 2019 Academic Ranking of seniors who demonstrated excellence in academics and athletics. World Universities, including six in the top 30. Formed the Big Ten Advisory Commission in 1972, enlisting former The Big Ten leads all conferences with more than 1,800 Academic All- students that competed in conference athletics to serve as liaisons to the Americans, including 27 honorees during the 2019-20 academic year. NCAA’s Diversity and Inclusion Department, the Big Ten Student-Athlete Advisory Commission and other organizations. Big Ten Academic Alliance schools annually conduct $10 billion in funded research, $5 billion more than any other conference. Became the first conference to voluntarily adopt male and female participation goals after launching its Gender Equity Action Plan in 1992. A HISTORY OF ATHLETIC SUCCESS Implemented the first collegiate football system of instant replay in 2004, Big Ten schools have won at least five national championships in 23 of the which the NCAA approved for use among all conferences in 2006. last 26 years, averaging nearly seven per year over that span. Launched the Big Ten Network (BTN) in 2007, the first national conference- Since the 2008-09 academic year, current Big Ten institutions have owned television network. claimed 76 team national championships in 21 different sports. Began partnering with the Ivy League to study the effects of head injuries in sports in 2012. BROAD-BASED PROGRAMMING The Big Ten will administer over $200 million in direct financial support to Accepted Johns Hopkins University as the conference’s first sport affiliate more than 9,800 students competing in intercollegiate athletics for more members in men’s and women’s lacrosse in 2013 and 2015, respectively, than 11,000 participation opportunities on 350 teams in 42 different and added Notre Dame as a sport affiliate member in men’s ice hockey sports. in 2017. The Big Ten sponsors 28 official conference sports, 14 for men and 14 for women, including the addition of men’s ice hockey and men’s and EXTENSIVE TELEVISION EXPOSURE women’s lacrosse in this decade. Through the Big Ten’s current media agreements with BTN, ABC/ ESPN, CBS and FOX, more than 2,000 Big Ten events are produced and The Big Ten leads the nation in total students competing in intercollegiate distributed nationally and globally on an annual basis. athletics and participation opportunities, and sponsors more official sports than all conferences except the Ivy League. BTN is in almost 60 million homes across the United States and Canada, and is also available internationally via the Fox Sports App, delivering live Almost 1,400 Big Ten competitors have participated in the Olympics, and on-demand programming to computers, smartphones and tablets. winning more than 600 medals, including nearly 300 gold. In the 2016 BTN Plus streams hundreds of additional events each season. and 2018 Olympic Games, more than 200 representatives from Big Ten institutions including current or former students and coaches were members of Olympic teams. Big Ten Olympians collected more than 50 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT medals in the most recent games in Rio and PyeongChang. For more than 30 years, through the Big Ten’s SCORE (Success Comes Out of Reading Everyday) program, the conference has partnered with Chicago elementary schools to improve reading performance. PASSIONATE FOLLOWING The Big Ten leads all conferences with 6.4 million alumni and nearly Surrounding the Big Ten Football Championship Game and Basketball 580,000 students. Tournaments, the conference has held numerous community initiatives, partnered with the College Football Playoff Foundation and other events Each year more than 11 million patrons attend Big Ten home contests, as such as the Big Ten Career Expo, SaturDAY of Service and Youth Football the conference has led the nation in attendance for men’s basketball, ice Clinics. In addition, the Big Ten has hosted a downtown 5K, collaborated hockey, volleyball and wrestling. with a local breast cancer awareness group and provided unique event experiences for military veterans. BIG LIFE. BIG STAGE. BIG TEN. 3 @BIGTENCHAMPS ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI NAME EVENT CL. HOMETOWN Hannah Aegerter Free/Fly/Back So. Cross Plains, Wis. Lauren Beard Breast/IM Fr. St. Louis, Mo. Laurel Bludgen Free Fr. Aurora, Ill. ROSTER Cara Bognar Fly/IM Fr. Greenville, S.C. Emily Bolger Free/Breast Jr. Palatine, Ill. Jeanri Buys Fly/Breast/IM So. Cape Town, South Africa Abigail Cabush Free/Fly/Back Jr. Sussex, Wis. Madelyn Crosby Diving Jr. Boerne, Texas Emma Curtis Free Sr. Grand Blanc, Mich. Natalie Edwards Free/Back/IM Sr. O’Fallon, Ill. Erin Emme Diving Sr. La Habra, Calif. SCHEDULE/ Lizzie Gile Fly So. Champaign, Ill. RESULTS Isabelle Guerra Free/Fly/Back So. Austin, Texas Kaleigh Haworth Breast/IM So. Highlands Ranch, Colo. Kaylee Heimes Back Jr. Quakertown, Pa. Divya Kale Breast So. Naperville, Ill. Cacia Kaupp Diving Fr. Durand, Mich. Jenna Keating Free So. Chicago, Ill. Sidney Kennedy Free Jr. Bloomington, Ill. Paige Koscielski Free Fr. Rochester Hills, Mich. STATISTICS Anna Kurzydlo Free Fr. Deerfield, Ill. Allison Landis Diving Fr. Vernon Hills, Ill. Gabrielle Loeck Back/Free Sr. DeForest, Wis. Mariclaire Lynch Free So. Western Springs, Ill. Abigail Martin Free Jr. Mason City, Ill. Jimena Martinez Breast/IM Sr. Mexico City, Mexico Michelle McCord Back/Breast/IM Sr. Canton, Ga. TEAM Brooke Michael Diving Fr. Reno, Nev. Taylor Michael Diving Fr. Reno, Nev. WEBSITE Lia Munson Free/Fly Fr. Farmington, Mich. Meghan Niziolek Free/Fly/Back/IM Fr. Bartlett, Ill. Lily Olson Free/Fly Fr. Fullerton, Calif. Isabelle Packard Free So. Tulsa, Okla. Lauren Partridge Breast/IM Jr. Cedar Park, Texas Athena Salafatinos Back/Free/Fly So. Naperville, Ill. Taylor Shegos Diving Jr. Fenton, Mich. SCHOOL Erin Young Diving So. Dana Point, Calif. HEAD COACH: Sue Novitsky WEBSITE ASSISTANT COACH: Elliott McGill GRADUATE ASSISTANT DIVING COACH: Matthew Phillip BIG LIFE. BIG STAGE. BIG TEN. 4 @BIGTENCHAMPS GET MORE FOR YOUR SPORT FIND THE NEAREST NIKE LOCATION AT WWW.NIKESTORE.COM INDIANA HOOSIERS NAME EVENT CL. HOMETOWN Zane Backes Breast/IM Jr. Las Vegas, Nev. Bruno Blaskovic Free/Fly Sr. Vodnjan, Croatia Mac Boyle Multi Fr. Katy, Texas ROSTER Michael Brinegar Free R-So. Columbus, Ind. Tucker Brock Fly Jr. Morgantown, Ind. Brock Brown Breast/Free Sr. Zionsville, Ind. Logan Brown Diving Jr. Elkhart, Ind. Brendan Burns Fly/Back So. Berwyn, Pa. Mikey Calvillo Free/IM Jr. San Antonio, Texas Andrew Capobianco Diving R-Jr. Holly Springs, N.C. Michael Couet Breast Jr. Franklin, Ind. SCHEDULE/ Jacob Destrampe Free So. Franklin, Ind. RESULTS Tristan DeWitt Breast/IM Fr. Fort Wayne, Ind. Michael Draves Free Jr. Middleton, Wisc. Griffin Eiber Free Sr. Centennial, Colo. Gabriel Fantoni Back Sr. Belo Horizonte, Brazil Tomer Frankel Free/Fly Fr. Tel Aviv, Israel Jack Franzman Free Jr. Zionsville, Ind. Corey Gambardella Fly Sr. Guilford, Conn. Mory Gould Diving Sr. Potomac, Md. STATISTICS Logan Graham Free/Back Fr. Rockwall, Texas Brandon Hamblin Free/Fly Jr. Stafford, Va. Gage Hamill Free/Fly Sr. Springfield, Ill. Gary Kostbade Multi Sr. Chesterton, Ind. Spencer Lehman IM/Back Sr. Middlebury, Ind. Van Mathias Fly/IM Jr. Portland, Ore. Ben McDade Free Jr. Monona, Wisc. Maxwell Reich Breast/IM Fr. North Hampton, N.H. TEAM Max Scott Free So.