Northwestern Swimming and Diving Splits with Arizona; Federico Burdisso Makes Northwestern Debut

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Federico Burdisso made his debut for Northwestern in Arizona. Photo Courtesy: FINA / Budapest 2019

Northwestern swimming and diving split their opening weekend of 2020 with the women dominating Arizona 238-109 and Northern Arizona 255-86 while the men fell just short to Arizona, 199-154.

Team Scores:

  • Men:
    • Arizona 199, Northwestern 154
  • Women:
    • Northwestern 238, Arizona 109
    • Arizona 226, Northern Arizona 120
    • Northwestern 255, Northern Arizona 86
  • RESULTS

Northwestern Swimming and Diving Press Release

The Wildcats kicked off the meet sweeping both the men’s and women’s 400 medley relays.

The women’s team of Calypso Sheridan, Hannah Brunzell, Miriam Guevara and Malorie Han touched in a time of 3:40.75, followed closely by a second NU team of Nicole Aarts, Sophie Angus, Krystal Lara and Maddie Smith.

On the men’s side, the team of sophomore Manu Bacarizo and first-years Kevin Houseman, Federico Burdisso and Aleksa Bobar out-touched their competition by almost three seconds in a time of 3:15.72.

On the first day of competition, the ‘Cats took home nine individual event wins including Ilketra Lebl (1650 free), Brunzell (100 breast), Sheridan (100 Back, 200 IM), Bacarizo (100 Back), Houseman (100 Breast), Guevara (200 Fly) and Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson (1 Meter Dive).

The Wildcats started off day two just as strong, with the women’s 200 medley relay team of Sheridan, Angus, Guevara and Smith besting their competition by almost two seconds in a time of 1:40.25.

In his collegiate opener for Northwestern swimming and diving, first-year Federico Burdisso finished just over a second ahead of his competition in the 100 fly to lead the ‘Cats sweep of the event, with Guevara winning the women’s by over two seconds.

Northwestern swimming and diving had their second and third sweeps of the day in the 200 breast and 200 back, with first-year Marcus Mok and Sheridan leading the way for the ‘Cats in the breast and first-year Emma Lepisova and Bacarizo sweeping the 200 back.

First-year Markie Hopkins also swept the diving boards taking both the 1M and 3M to bring the ‘Cats individual win total of the weekend to 17.

The Wildcats will be back in the pool tomorrow afternoon as they take on Arizona State in Tempe, Arizona.

Arizona Press Release

Arizona wrapped up day 2 of its two-day meet to open 2020, finishing with a 2-1 record in the event. The men defeated Northwestern 199-154 while the women split their two dual meets, defeating NAU 226-120 and falling to Northwestern swimming and diving 238-109.

The eighth-ranked men improved to 5-0 in dual meets this season while the 22nd-ranked women are now 3-4 this season.

Brooks Fail continued his dominance from Thursday, winning two more events, the 500 free and the 400 IM and helped the men win the 400 free relay. Marin Ercegovic, Jorge Iga, Bjorn Markentin and Kirsten Jacobsen also posted victories on Friday while Hannah Cox posted her second and third runner-up finishes of the meet.

The Wildcats are back in action on Jan. 24 and 25 when they travel to Cal and Stanford, respectively. Arizona is back home for the final time this year on Feb. 1 vs. Texas.

WILDCAT TOP-3 FINISHES

Women

200 medley relay
2. Arizona A (Aria Bernal, Madison Blakesley, Alayna Connor, Kayla Filipek)

500 free
1. Kirsten Jacobsen
2. Hannah Cox
3. Ayumi Macias

100 fly
3. Vicky Navarro

200 back
3. Axana Merckx

200 free
1. Casslyn Treydte
3. Kirsten Jacobsen

400 IM
2. Hannah Cox
3. Axana Merckx

50 free
3. Alayna Connor

400 free relay
2. Arizona A (Casslyn Treydte, Alayna Connor, Kayla Filipek, Kirsten Jacobsen)

Men

200 medley relay
1. Arizona A (Thomas Anderson, Ryan Foote, Brendan Meyer, Marin Ercegovic)
3. Arizona B (Jack Anderson, Ty Wells, Noah Reid, Jorge Iga)

500 free
1. Brooks Fail
3. Isaac Stump

100 fly
2. Noah Reid
3. Brendan Meyer

200 breast
2. Etay Gurevich

200 back
2. Thomas Anderson

3m diving
1. Bjorn Markentin
2. Casey Ponton

200 free
1. Jorge Iga
2. Noah Reid

400 IM
1. Brooks Fail
3. Etay Gurevich

50 free
1. Marin Ercegovic
3. Tai Combs

400 free relay
1. Arizona A (Noah Reid, Jorge Iga, Marin Ercegovic, Brooks Fail)
3. Arizona B (Hunter Ingram, Daniel Namir, Thomas Anderson, Brendan Meyer)

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