Northwestern women defeat the 17th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers on the road

Northwestern girls’s swim and dive competed on the street at Wisconsin final weekend. There, the staff defeated the Badgers, who got here in because the Seventeenth ranked staff within the nation, with a rating of 162-138. 

Wildcats senior Hannah Brunzell, freshman Hana Shimizu-Bowers, freshman Audrey Yu, freshman Lindsay Ervin and graduate pupil Miriam Guevara had been sport changers within the water. The collective squad completed first throughout totally different meets, from the 100-yard breastroke to the 100-yard butterfly.

Alongside these teammates, freshman Jamie Brennan and Shimizu-Bowers went 1-2 within the 200-yard IM, with Brennan going 2:02.06 and Shimizu-Bowers going 2:02.29. Ervin, Yu, freshman Riley Huddleston and freshman Ally Larson received the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:31.13. 

On the lads’s facet, the Cats weren’t as victorious, falling brief to the Badgers 181-119.  

 Notable swims got here from senior Ben Miller, who received the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard butterfly, senior Aleksa Bobar, who received the 100-yard freestyle in 45.29, senior Marcus Mok, who received the 200-yard breaststroke in 1:59.74, and sophomore Tyler Lu, who received the 200-yard IM in 1:47.45.  

Up subsequent for the Cats is a house meet in opposition to Purdue, Iowa and Minnesota from this weekend. With the Huge Ten Championships and the NCAA Championships arising within the subsequent two months, the Cats need to maintain the momentum going and probably ship extra gamers to those championships. 

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