Bloomington, Ind. – The Wisconsin men's swimming & diving team wrapped up day two of the Big Ten Championships on Thursday, holding at fourth place overall with a score of 274.5 after breaking two more school records.
Juniors Matt Novinski and
MJ Mao, sophomore
Erik Gessner and senior
Griffin Back nearly missed the podium in the 400 medley relay with a fourth-place finish. The relay squad dropped three seconds on their entry time, touching at a new school-record 3:07.19.
In the 200 IM, freshman
Wes Jekel won the B-Final (ninth overall) with a new PR and school record of 1:43.20. Sophomore
Caleb Aman followed, finishing fifth in the B-Final (13
th overall) at 1:45.33.
Leading off with the 500 free, senior
Cameron Tysoe set a new PR in the morning prelims, only to break it just hours later in the finals. Tysoe finished in fourth place with a time of 4:17.36, while his classmate
Michael Milinovich swam a 4:20.89 to finish third in the B-Final (11
th overall).
Four Badgers competed in the 500 free C-Final –
Matthew Hillmer,
Robert Niemann,
Graham Miotke and
Frank Niziolek – touching at 4:22.11, 4:24.44, 4:25.92 and 4:27.03 to go 18
th, 19
th, 21
st and 23
rd overall, respectively.
Rounding out the day, senior
Kevin Braun finished third in the C-Final (19
th overall) of the 50 free with a time of 20.03.
The men will be back in the pool tomorrow morning, with Friday's prelims beginning at 10:00 a.m. CT.
