Hannah Hill, Masy Folcik, Lindsay Turner Lead Purdue Women to Dual Meet Win Against Illinois

Hannah Hill, Masy Folcik, Lindsay Turner Lead Purdue Women to Dual Meet Win Against Illinois

Hannah Hill, Masy Folcik and Lindsay Turner all won a pair of individual events to lead the way as Purdue women’s swimming & diving racked up a dozen victories in a 188-111 dual meet win vs. Illinois on Senior Day at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center.

The Boilermakers posted their third dual win of the year and will now set their sights on the Big Ten Championships, set for Feb. 16 to 19 at Wisconsin’s second-year aquatic center. The Big Ten Championships have not been held in the state of Wisconsin since the 1980s.

Folcik swept the breaststroke events and Turner did likewise in the butterfly. Hill continued her big month by swimming the leadoff leg on both of Purdue’s relay winners. The freshman was also victorious in the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke.

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The meet ended in exciting fashion as Rachel Young out touched Illinois’ Isabelle Guerra by six hundredths of a second as the anchors on the 400 free relay. Young teamed with Claire Abbasse, Moon and Hill for the victory. Like Hill, Moon was also part of both relay winners Saturday.

Fifth-year senior Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer was victorious in 1-meter diving in her final home meet. Classmate Maggie Merriman won on the platform, which was a non-scoring exhibition Saturday, with a team season-best score of 311.10, just 1.2 points shy of her career best as a Boilermaker.

Purdue had at least the top two finishers in both springboard events. Sophie McAfee was victorious on 3-meter with a personal season-best mark of 335.78 that moved the freshman into 14th place in program history. Jenna Sonnenberg was the runner-up on both springboards.

Pfeiffer’s win was her team-leading seventh of the season. Folcik and Hill continue to lead the swimmers with six individual event wins apiece. Turner now has five and Maggie Love’s victory in the 200 IM on Saturday gave the freshman four wins this season.

The Boilermakers finished 1-2 in the 200 back and 200 breast. Abby Harter and Erin Verbrugge were the top finishers in the backstroke and Folcik teamed with Mahala Erlandson for the 1-2 in the breaststroke.

Swimmers McKenna Jule, Jade Knueppel and Tessa Wrightson joined Merriman and Pfeiffer in the Senior Day ceremony before the meet.

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