PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers swimming and diving heads to the Midwest this week, where they will compete at the Minnesota Invitational. The Scarlet Knights will compete in events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
With fellow Big Ten school Minnesota hosting, seven teams overall will compete. The Scarlet Knights and Gophers are joined by Cal, UNLV, Harvard, Denver and Iowa State. Rutgers will be competing in the Minnesota Invitational for the second straight year.
Live results will be available online. In addition, there will be live streams available for each day, both for prelims and finals, available via YouTube.
For Rutgers, this is the fifth weekend with competition for the program. The Scarlet Knights opened action with dual meet wins over St. Bonaventure and Fordham. RU also competed against top competition in meets with Miami/Arkansas and No. 25 Princeton.
Last time out, the Rutgers divers headed to the Naval Academy Invite. The diving squad, who is ranked No. 6 nationally, had first place finishes in all three events, led by
Sephora Ford winning both the 3-Meter and Platform, with
Katerina Hoffman winning the 1-Meter.
Additionally, team captain
Brooke Thompson returns from competing last week in Tokyo, Japan for the 2025 Deaflympics. Thompson won six medals (two gold, four bronze), set a new US deaf record and was a part of two relay teams who set World records for deaf swimming.
Minnesota Invite: Meet Schedule
- Swimming Prelims begin at 10:00am
- Diving Prelims begin at 12:00pm
- Swimming & Diving Finals begin at 5:00pm
Thursday 12/4
- 200 Freestyle Relay
- 500 Freestyle
- 200 IM
- 50 Freestyle
- 400 Medley Relay
- 1-Meter Diving
Friday 12/5
- 200 Medley Relay
- 100 Butterfly
- 400 IM
- 200 Freestyle
- 100 Breaststroke
- 100 Backstroke
- 800 Freestyle Relay
- 3-Meter Diving
Saturday 12/6
- 1650 Freestyle
- 200 Backstroke
- 100 Freestyle
- 200 Breaststroke
- 200 Butterfly
- 400 Free Relay
- Platform Diving
Top-10s Tracker
Rutgers has set nine new marks on the program's all-time top-10 lists this season.
Ana Hazlehurst and
Anna Vlachou lead the way with two apiece. Seven of them are on the swimming side, with two new marks on the diving boards.
Swimming
- Ana Hazlehurst, 400 IM: 4:16.57, Fourth
- Anna Vlachou, 100 Butterfly: 53.25, Fourth
- Anna Vlachou, 100 Free: 49.62, Sixth
- Emilianna Gonzalez, 50 Free: 22.83, Sixth
- Cameron Kuriger, 200 Butterfly: 2:00.47, Sixth
- Ana Hazlehurst, 200 IM: 2:01.31, Seventh
- Ellie Schinsky, 100 Butterfly: 54.01, Ninth
Diving
