Swimming & Diving Heads To Big Ten Championships

Rachel Kimmel high fives Hale Ole on the pool deck during

Swimming & Diving Heads To Big Ten Championships

Feb 14 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Championship Central 2022-23 Top Times/Scores All-Time Top 10 Times/Scores Rutgers Records

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers women's swimming and diving team is off to the 2023 Big Ten Championships hosted by Michigan at the Canham Natatorium on Feb. 15-19.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday - 5:00 p.m.
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200 Medley Relay
800 Free Relay

Thursday - Prelims: 10:00 a.m. / Finals: 5:00 p.m.
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500 Free
200 IM
50 Free
1M Dive
400 Medley Relay

Friday - Prelims: Prelims: 10:00 a.m. / Finals: 5:00 p.m.)
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100 Fly
400 IM
200 Free
100 Breast
100 Back
3M Dive
200 Free Relay

Saturday - Prelims: Prelims: 10:00 a.m. / Finals: 5:00 p.m.
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1650 Free
200 Back
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Fly
Platform
400 Free Relay

RUTGERS RECORDS

Rutgers set two new school records in 2022-23

100 Breast
- Madison Murtagh (1:00.65)
200 Medley Relay
- Alice Scarabelli, Rachel Kimmel, Sofia (Lobova) Maksimova, Sofia Chichaikina (1:38.95)

RUTGERS ALL-TIME TOP TEN

Rutgers has established 22 times/scores among the all-time top 10 during the 2022-23 season.

500 Free
- 3. Madison Murtagh (4:44.72)
1000 Free
- 3. Madison Murtagh (9:52.91)
1650 Free
- 3. Madison Murtagh (16:20.90)
100 Back
- 4. Alice Scarabelli (53.04)
- 6. Valeria Egorova (53.55)
200 Back
- 6. Alice Scarabelli (1:57.61)
- 7. Valeria Egorova (1:57.62)
- 9. Martyna Piesko (1:59.48)
100 Breast
- 1. Rachel Kimmel (1:00.65)
200 Breast
- 3. Rachel Kimmel (2:13.51)
- 5. Tina Celik (2:14.83)
100 Fly
- 9. Martyna Piesko (54.51)
200 Fly
- 7. Viktoriia Kostromina (2:00.73)
200 IM
- 3. Rachel Kimmel (2:00.99)
1-Meter
- 4. Giulia Vittorioso (312.55)
- 5. Savana Trueb (310.10)
- 10. Holly Prasanto (292.05)
3-Meter
- 7. Holly Prasanto (324.80)
Platform
- 5. Giulia Vittorioso (272.85)
- 7. Sephora Ford (251.55)
- 8. Jenna Douglass (234.80)
- 10. Holly Prasanto (228.25)

BIG TEN WEEKLY HONOREES

Graduate student Rachel Kimmel was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week on Nov. 16 becoming the second Scarlet Knight to earn a Big Ten weekly award in 2022-23 and fifth to be named a Big Ten Swimmer of the Week since joining the league in 2014-15. The Fort Loundon, Pennsylvania, native helped set a new school record, collected two NCAA B cuts and moved up the all-time top times list in Rutgers' annual meet with in-state rival Princeton last week. Kimmel swam breast for the 200 medley relay team that set a new Rutgers record with a time of 1:39.32 besting the previous record of 1:39.38 set by the Big Ten Championship podium-placing squad last season. Individually, Kimmel logged a time of 1:01.60 in the 100 breast to move up one spot on the all-time list to fifth and clocked in at 2:13.62 in the 200 breast moving up five spots to third on the all-time list after shaving 2.21 seconds off her previous season top time. Kimmel also placed third in the 200 IM against the Tigers with a time of 2:04.48.
Freshman Martyna Piesko was named the Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week on Nov. 2. She becomes the fourth Scarlet Knight to earn the rookie weekly award since Rutgers joined the Big Ten in 2014-15. The first-year Scarlet Knight won the 200 back with one of the top times at Rutgers, was a part of the winning 200 medley relay squad and was runner-up in four other events as she helped the Scarlet Knights to their first-ever victory over Purdue. Piesko won the 200 back in 1:59.48 marking the eighth fastest time in the Rutgers record book with a 3.31-second margin of victory. The Lublin, Poland native also swam anchor on the 200 medley relay squad that won with a time of 1:43.02 The rookie also captured runner-up finishes in the 100 back in 55.70 and as a member of the 200 free relay (1:34.14), 400 free relay (3:26.94) and 400 medley relay (3:50.81). The 400 free relay was edged out of first place by .17 seconds.

LAST YEAR IN THE WATER

Rutgers returns 16 letterwinners from last season including Big Ten Podium finishers Tina Celik (200 & 400 medley relay), Sofia Chichaikina (200 free, 400 & 800 free relay, 400 medley relay), Giulia Ghidini (200 & 800 free relay, 200 medley relay), Sofia Lobova (200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay), Alice Scarabelli (200 free, 200, 400 & 800 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay), and Savana Trueb (3-meter).
The Scarlet Knights fostered a deeper squad for the 2021-22 season after a covid-shorten 2020-21 campaign and continued to make huge strides in the water. Rutgers captured its highest Big Ten Championship finish since joining the Big Ten eight years ago and finished 26th at the NCAA Championships, the highest finish for the Scarlet Knights since 2006.
Altogether the Scarlet Knights produced 10 podium finishes at the championships. Seven new Rutgers school records were established and 28 times/scores were recorded among the all-time top 10. Nine NCAA "B" cuts were collected, while six divers were sent to NCAA Zones.
On the boards, Rutgers sent two divers to the NCAA Championships producing an All-American with a finalist on platform and consolation round performer on 3-meter. At NCAA Zones, Savana Trueb was a runner-up on platform and finished third on 1-meter and fourth on 3-meter.
At the 2022 Big Ten Championships, the 800 freestyle relay reset the oldest record in the Rutgers history books breaking a 16-year record by 3.70 seconds.
The diving corps also made a splash with nine scores among the top 10, including resetting an eight-year-old platform record twice.

RSMART

The Rutgers women's swimming and diving team was honored with its 18^th-straight College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American Team Award with one of the nation's top grade point averages.
The Scarlet Knights boasted a 3.55 grade point average during the 2022 fall semester, the fourth-best among Big Ten programs. Nineteen members of the program registered a grade point average above a 3.5 with 13 receiving Dean's List recognition.
Rutgers was among the more than 479 institutions from all levels and 188 Division I women's programs to earn CSCAA Scholar All-America honors for the 2022 fall semester for GPAs over a 3.0.

UP NEXT

Rutgers women's swimming & diving has one final opportunity to collect times to send Scarlet Knights to the NCAA Championships at the ECAC Last Chance Meet o Feb. 24-16 in East Meadow, N.Y.
NCAA Zone A competition takes place Mar. 6-8 in Morgantown, West Virginia.
The 2023 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be held March 15-18 in Knoxville, Tenn.

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