Women Swimmers & All Divers at Big Ten Championships
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women’s swimming and diving team will defend its 2020 Big Ten Conference championship this week with competitions set for two locations. The swimmers will compete Tuesday through Saturday at the University of Minnesota while the divers will compete Thursday through Saturday at Purdue University. The men’s Big Ten diving competition will also take place this week at Purdue with results/points held and added into the men’s swimming championships, which will take place March 2-6 at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.
Big Ten Conference Championships
Women’s Swimming
February 23-27
Minneapolis, Minn. – Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center
Men’s & Women’s Diving
February 25-27
West Lafayette, Ind. – Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center
Schedule of Events
Tuesday: Finals – 5 p.m. start
- 200 medley relay
- 800 freestyle relay
Wednesday: Prelims – 11 a.m. start; Finals – 6:30 p.m.
- 200 individual medley
- 50 freestyle
- 500 freestyle
- 400 medley relay
Thursday: Prelims – 11 a.m. start; Finals – 6:30 p.m.
- 100 butterfly
- 400 individual medley
- 200 freestyle
- Men’s 1-meter diving
- Women’s 3-meter diving
Friday: Prelims – 11 a.m. start; Finals – 6:30 p.m.
- 100 backstroke
- 100 breaststroke
- 200 butterfly
- 200 freestyle relay
- Men’s 3-meter diving
- Women’s platform diving
Saturday: Prelims – 11 a.m. start; Finals – 6:30 p.m.
- 100 freestyle
- 1,650 freestyle
- 200 backstroke
- 200 breaststroke
- 400 freestyle relay
- Women’s 1-meter diving
- Men’s platform diving
Ohio State Wins 2020 Championship
Ohio State won the 2020 Big Ten championship, held at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center at the University of Iowa. The title represented the Buckeyes’ sixth in program history and the first since 1986. After taking the lead on the first full day of competition, the Buckeyes maintained a steady advantage all the way through Saturday evening and won the title by a margin of 197 points. Ohio State director of swimming and diving Bill Dorenkott claimed his fourth Big Ten team championship, having won three prior titles as the head coach at Penn State.
Returning Finalists
Ohio State heads into the Big Ten championships with 11 swimmers and divers who combined to qualify for a total of 20 event finals at last year’s championship meet.
Sr. Lexie Barker
- 7th – 1-meter diving
Sr. Hanna Gresser
- 6th – 200 breaststroke
- 7th – 100 breaststroke
- 7th – 200 IM
Sr. Taylor Petrak
- 5th – 50 free
- 6th – 100 free
Sr. Freya Rayner
- 2nd – 100 free
- 3rd – 50 free
Sr. Kristen Romano
- 3rd – 400 IM
- 5th – 200 IM
- 6th – 200 back
Jr. Sally Tafuto
- 6th – 1,650 free
- 7th – 500 free
Jr. Georgia White
- 2nd – 200 free
- 8th – 100 free
So. Hannah Bach
- 8th – 100 breaststroke
So. Mackenzie Crawford
- 1st – 1-meter diving
- 3rd – 3-meter diving
So. Amy Fulmer
- 7th – 100 free
So. Josephine Panitz
- 6th – 200 IM
Ohio State Coaches
Bill Dorenkott is in his 13th year at Ohio State and his fourth year as director of men’s and women’s swimming and diving. His 2019-20 women’s team won the Big Ten championship while the men were runner-up. Dorenkott was named the Big Ten women’s swimming coach of the year, an honor he also won in 2005 while at Penn State.
Dorenkott spent 10 seasons as head coach of the Penn State women’s program led them to three Big Ten championships: 2002, 2005 and 2006. He has coached his swimmers to 52 individual Big Ten championships.
Justin Sochor is in his eighth season as Ohio State’s diving coach. He was the 2016 and 2020 Big Ten men’s diving coach of the year and his divers have won three individual Big Ten titles.
