Press Release courtesy of Florida Athletics
The No. 3/14 Florida men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams are set to compete at the Purdue Invitational on Nov. 16-18 in West Lafayette, Ind.
The field consists of 10 teams – Florida, Florida International (women), Indiana State (diving), Indiana, Missouri State, Navy (men), North Carolina (diving), Purdue, Southern Illinois and Virginia Tech.
Four of the women’s teams are ranked in the CSCAA Top 25 poll, with Indiana leading the way at ninth in the nation. Florida follows at 14th, while Purdue and North Carolina are 20th and 21st in the country.
On the men’s side, the field consists of two top-three teams in Indiana (1st) and Florida (3rd), while UNC is ranked 22nd.
The pool will feature 13 Olympians – nine swimmers and four divers. Caeleb Dressel, Jan Switkowski and Khader Baqlah represent the Gator Olympians competing.
Indiana leads the pack with seven Olympians, including gold medalists Lilly King and Blake Pieroni, as well as silver medalist Michael Hixon.
Purdue’s two Olympians and Florida International’s one round out the Rio competitors in this field.
The Gators have only faced one of the teams this season in Indiana. The men fell to the Hoosiers at the Texas/Indiana meet 242-187 and the women were dropped 215-178.
The meet will run in a preliminary/finals format, with A-B-C-D finals for each race. The preliminary sessions begin at 10 a.m. each day, followed by finals at 6 p.m.
Diving preliminaries for the 1-meter and 3-meter board will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, followed by finals at 6:15 and 6:50 each day. Saturday’s platform session begins at 12 p.m. and is finals only.
Thursday’s Events:
– 200 free relay
– 500 free
– 200 IM
– 50 free
– 400 medley relay
– Men’s 1-meter
– Women’s 3-meter
Friday’s Events:
– 200 medley relay
– 400 IM
– 100 fly
– 200 free
– 100 breast
– 100 back
– 800 free relay
– Women’s 1-meter
– Men’s 3-meter
Saturday’s Events:
– Platform diving
– 1650 free
– 200 back
– 100 free
– 200 breast
– 200 fly
– 400 free relay
Follow Along:
– Live swimming results will be available for each race
– Live diving results will also be available during each session
– The finals sessions will be streamed all three days through the Big Ten Network (subscription required)
– Updates can also be found on Twitter (@GatorsSwimDv)
