Tyler Lu

The Story Behind Northwestern Swimming’s Largest Men’s NCAAs Contingent Since 2007

The Northwestern men made tremendous progress to get to the NCAA Championships, where they qualified their most swimmers at the meet in nearly two decades.

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Revisiting NCAA Recruit Rankings: Men’s High School Class of 2021

Luke Hobson emerged as the top point scorer (146) among domestic recruits in the high school class of 2021, while Leon Marchand led all swimmers with 177.

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2025 NCAA Men’s Champs: Day 3 Relay Analysis – Gators Dominate Short-Axis in 400 Medley

Julian Smith swam the #2 100 breaststroke split in history (48.85) to help Florida dominate the 400 medley relay on Friday night.

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2025 NCAA Men’s Champs: Day 1 Relay Analysis – Kharun Lowers Record in 50 fly, Smith drops .01

Perhaps lost in the drama of the DQ, ASU’s Ilya Kharun blasted his way to a new fastest 50 fly split ever, going 18.78 as the Sun Devils finished 4th.

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2025 Big Ten Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Indiana’s Owen McDonald leads the men’s 200 IM field heading into the final after producing the fastest split on the 800 freestyle on night 1.

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2025 Men’s Big Ten Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

As always, this morning’s session will feature the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free. 1-meter diving prelims will begin at the conclusion of the swimming.

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2025 Men’s Big Ten Fan Guide: Stacked Indiana Squad Set to Win 4th-Straight Title

The Indiana Hoosiers won their 3rd-straight Men’s Big Ten title last year, winning the meet by a very comfortable margin.

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Wisconsin and Northwestern Split With A Swimming Sweep For Badger Women

Phoebe Bacon and Hazal Ozkan dominated two events each en route to a clean swimming sweep for the Lady Badgers against Northwestern

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Northwestern Sweeps Events at Dual Meet with Southern Indiana

The Northwestern men and women started their weekend of wins with a sweep of the events vs Southern Indiana last week swimming a shortened meet schedule.

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Two Pool Records Fall As Northwestern Beats Chicago, Penn State

Northwestern’s Tyler Lu (pictured) and Cade Duncan snagged a pool record each as the Wildcat men and women beat Penn State and Chicago at home.

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2024 Wolfpack Elite Invite: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

After taking 3rd in the 200 IM last night, Olympian Ilya Kharun heads into today’s competition as the top seed in two events this morning.

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Northwestern Rolls To Sweep of Cincinnati As Kyle Ly Sets School Record

The women won by a final tally of 188.5-110.5 behind 12 event wins, while the Wildcat men soared to a 188-111 decision over the Bearcats.

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Syunta Lee Dazzles With Pacific Northwest LSC Record in 500 Free at Age Group Regionals

West Coast Aquatics 14-year-old Syunta Lee knocked almost four seconds off his best 500 free time to move up to 17th in the U.S. 13-14 boys NAG rankings.

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2024 Men’s Big Ten Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Michigan’s Gal Cohen Groumi (1:41.76) qualified 1st for the men’s 200 IM final, and will have the opportunity to defend his title.

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New Coach, No Problem: Minnesota’s Bar Soloveychik Cracks Program Record with 8:52.95 1000

Purdue is hosting a Big Ten quad meet featuring Minnesota, Northwestern, and Iowa this weekend at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center.

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