2021 BIG TEN WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Tuesday, February 23rd to Saturday, February 27th | Prelims 11am | Finals 6:30pm (5pm Tuesday) CT
- Where: Minneapolis, MN (Central Time Zone) / Diving @ Purdue University
- Defending Champion: Ohio State (1x) (results)
- Live Results
- Streaming: Big Ten Network
- Championship Central
TEAM SCORES (FINAL)
- Ohio State – 1584
- Michigan – 1326.5
- Indiana – 1066.5
- Northwestern – 992
- Wisconsin – 749.5
- Minnesota – 555
- Nebraska – 542.5
- Iowa – 424
- Purdue – 414
- Penn State – 410
- Michigan State – 217
- Ilinois – 177
- Rutgers – 60
Ohio State rounded out an impressive weekend with a shiny new Big Ten title, their second-straight after a drought that had lasted over three decades.
On the final night of competition, all eyes were on the Indiana v. Northwestern battle for third, though. The Hoosiers had a strong showing in the mile, then matching the Wildcats in the pool events before IU’s dynamite diving group pushed them further out of reach.
Even two years since the graduation of World Record-holder and marquee Indiana breaststroker Lilly King, tonight’s 200 breast final showed that the Hoosiers are still carrying on a tradition of breaststroke.
Sophomore Emily Weiss lunged in for the 200 breast title tonight, clocking a 2:07.20 to slice a half-second off of her old best. She was joined on the podium by runner-up and teammate Noelle Peplowski at 2:07.61, while Mac Looze, daughter of head coach Ray Looze, took fourth in 2:08.62 to help stamp out any Wildcat rebellion there.
Looze, who swam the 200 fly at this meet last year, came into the meet with a lifetime best of 2:11.07.
RELAY SPLIT ANALYSIS
The 400 free relay was the final event of the 2021 Big Ten Women’s Championships, and Michigan got the job done, the only team to break 3:12. They had three 47 splits, the most of any team, and making up three of the five sub-48 splits in the field. Northwestern and Ohio State, meanwhile, each got one sub-48 split.
| TEAM | SWIMMER | SPLIT |
| Michigan | Maggie MacNeil | 47.47 (lead-off) |
| Michigan | Daria Pyshnenko | 47.68 |
| Northwestern | Maddie Smith | 47.78 |
| Michigan | Olivia Carter | 47.93 |
| Ohio State | Kit Kat Zenick | 47.99 |
| Wisconsin | Phoebe Bacon | 48.11 |
| Ohio State | Taylor Petrak | 48.13 (lead-off) |
| Ohio State | Amy Fulmer | 48.17 |
| Nebraska | Autumn Haebig | 48.27 |
| Michigan | Megan Glass | 48.53 |
| Northwestern | Selen Ozbilen | 48.57 (lead-off) |
| Ohio State | Kristen Romano | 48.61 |
| Indiana | Ashley Turak | 48.74 (lead-off) |
| Indiana | Laurel Eiber | 48.79 |
| Northwestern | Ally Larson | 48.8 |
| Wisconsin | Lillie Hosack | 49.05 (lead-off) |
| Indiana | Ella Ristic | 49.07 |
| Wisconsin | Alana Palmer | 49.08 |
| Northwestern | Annika Wagner | 49.2 |
| Minnesota | Maggie Summit | 49.25 |
| Indiana | Elizabeth Broshears | 49.27 |
| Penn State | Madeleine Cooke | 49.4 |
| Wisconsin | Isabel Lampre | 49.47 |
| Penn State | Catherine Stanford | 49.61 (lead-off) |
| Purdue | Kendra Bowen | 49.71 |
| Minnesota | Pyper Doo | 49.72 |
| Purdue | Natalie Myers | 49.73 |
| Penn State | Elisabeth Gaspari | 49.76 |
| Purdue | Riley Kishman | 49.8 |
| Iowa | Kelsey Drake | 49.81 |
| Iowa | Lauren McDougall | 49.96 |
| Minnesota | Jordan McGinty | 49.97 (lead-off) |
| Minnesota | Emma Linscott | 50 |
| Purdue | Claire Abbasse | 50.13 (lead-off) |
| Nebraska | Alexa Kucera | 50.13 (lead-off) |
| Iowa | Macy Rink | 50.3 |
| Illinois | Lillian Olson | 50.40 (lead-off) |
| Penn State | Abbie Amdor | 50.44 |
| Illinois | Abby Cabush | 50.55 |
| Iowa | Sarah Schemmel | 50.69 (lead-off) |
| Nebraska | Lexi Kucera | 50.82 |
| Michigan State | Taylor Arnold | 51.04 |
| Michigan State | Abbey Neveling | 51.11 |
| Illinois | Emma Curtis | 51.12 |
| Michigan State | Olivia Chick | 51.23 (lead-off) |
| Nebraska | Caitlin Cairns | 51.23 |
| Illinois | Laurel Bludgen | 51.68 |
| Michigan State | Taylor Contino | 52.17 |
Guerra = crickets.
one tries to write a article with some analysis, commenters do not read article as a whole and just start to accuse writer of some kind of bias or other invented idiocies…. 2021 baby! ALL HAIL THE HOOSIERS AND RAY LOOZE THE MAGNIFICENT, RULER OF THE NORTH, KING OF THE SNOW.
Indiana is…. barely beating Northwestern???
i was hoping Northwestern was going to pull off the upset and beat IU… there’s always next year, NU is doing great recruiting
gotta agree with the other comments, wild not to put OSU in the title of this article. Indiana breaststroke doesn’t even look that good this year when UVa and NCSU exist.
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Braden Keith
6 minutes ago
Braden – any idea as to location and dates for 2022 Big10 Women’s Championships?
Why is the title of this not: “Back2Back” ?
I want to see Mel and Coleman interview with my old friend, and IU nemesis, “Wild” Bill Dorenkott!
I believe this was a TEAM competition that OSU scored the most points ever in as a TEAM…. just reminding the readership….