Golden Gophers Takes First Dual Meet Losses at Wisconsin – University of Minnesota Athletics

MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups every suffered their first losses of the twin meet season Friday at Wisconsin. The No. 25 Gopher males’s staff fell to the Twentieth-ranked Badger males, 181-117, whereas the No. 25 Gopher girls’s staff dropped its contest to the Sixteenth-ranked Badger girls, 172-128.

The Golden Gophers bought 11 victories on the day with six on the boys’s aspect and 5 for the ladies.

For the boys, fifth-year senior captain Max McHugh swept the breaststroke and recorded a pair of ‘B’ cuts within the course of. He received the 100 breast in a time of 53.43 then posted a time of two:13.79 to win the 200 breast.

Junior Kaiser Neverman additionally swept his particular person occasions, taking dwelling first place within the butterfly. His time of 47.94 was good for first within the 100 fly, whereas his 1:46.96 efficiency within the 200 fly was a season finest for the Gophers and simply .65 off a ‘B’ lower.

The lads’s staff’s different particular person wins went to sophomore Bar Soloveychik, who touched first within the 200 free in a season-best time of 1:37.49, and freshman diver Drew Bennett who set a career-high of 360.30 on the 3-meter, almost 64 factors higher than his competitors.

The ladies’s staff noticed a number of victories from junior Megan Van Berkom and fifth-year senior Pleasure Zhu, whereas sophomore Hannah Cornish picked up one other particular person win.

Van Berkom scored a pair of victories within the 200 fly and the 200 IM. Her time of 1:58.13 improved on her NCAA ‘B’ lower within the occasion by over a second, whereas her 200 IM effort of two:00.20 was a season finest for Minnesota.

Zhu remained undefeated within the diving effectively this yr. She was the highest performer on the 3-meter board as her rating of 336.45 was 40 factors higher than second place, whereas her rating of 301.80 on the 1-meter was over 24 factors forward of the sector.

Cornish, in the meantime, was the quickest swimmer within the 50 free (22.94).

The Gopher girls are again in motion subsequent Friday at dwelling towards Iowa, whereas the boys’s staff is off from competitors till the Minnesota Invitational, which begins Nov. 30 and runs by Dec. 4.