Bloomington, Ind. – The Wisconsin men's swimming & diving team completed day three of four at the Big Ten Championships on Friday, holding its fourth-place position with a total score of 523.
Australian senior
Cameron Tysoe earned Wisconsin's first medal of the championships, taking home bronze in the 100 back with a new career-best time of 46.03. Freshman
Wes Jekel followed, finishing in 8
th place at 48:00, while junior
Matthew Novinski finished 10
th – second in the B-Final – with a time of 46.89.
In the 100 fly, junior
MJ Mao and
Wes Jekel finished fifth and eighth overall, touching at 46.09 and 47.05, respectively. Sophomore
Erik Gessner joined, coming in 16
th overall – eighth in the B-Final – at 47.80.
Senior
Michael Milinovich and sophomore
Caleb Aman touched at 3:45.09 and 3:47.83 to earn fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 400 IM. Sophomore
Graham Miotke tailed, setting a new career-best time of 3:49.61 to finish second in the C-Final (17
th overall).
MJ Mao swam a 52.43 to finish seventh in the 100 breast, followed by sophomore
Eli Fouts, who touched at 54.24 to place fifth in the C-Final (21
st overall).
In the 200 free, senior
Griffin Back (1:36.60) finished eighth in the B-Final, while his classmates
Niko Stines and
Kevin Braun came in fourth and fifth in the C-Final. Stines swam a new career-best 1:36.07, with Braun right behind at 1:36.17.
To wrap up the night, Back, Braun, Novinski and Jekel swam a 1:18.43 to finish seventh in the 200 free relay.
The men will be back in the pool tomorrow morning for the final day of competition, with Saturday's prelims beginning at 10:00 a.m. CT from the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center in Bloomington, Indiana.
