Dupre Wins Gold on Day Three in Iowa City
 IOWA CITY, Iowa – The No. 23-ranked Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team compiled three more podiums during the third day of competition at the 2020 Big Ten Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on Friday.
With one competition day remaining, the Hoosiers remain in third place with 680 points. No. 19 Ohio State continues to lead the pack with 1,016 points, and No. 5 Michigan is in the second slot with 855 points.
Freshman Cora Dupre brought home the first gold medal of the meet for the Indiana Hoosiers in the 200 Freestyle Championship Final. She touched the wall first with a career-best time of 1:43.61, a Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Pool Record and the third-fastest time in program history. She is the first Hoosier to win the event since Kennedy Goss in 2015.
Senior Maria Paula Heitmann nabbed a fifth-place finish with a time of 1:46.04 in the 200 free. Junior Josie Grote (1:47.15) and freshman Ryley Ober (1:47.68) finished 13th and 16th, respectively, in the 200 free Consolation Final. Finally, junior Laurel Eiber (1:47.58) and senior Cassy Jernberg (1:47.71) finished 19th and 20th, respectively, out of the C Final.
Freshman Emily Weiss finished runner-up in the 100 Breaststroke Championship Final with a career-best time of 58.78, while Peplowski powered through for a lifetime-best time of 58.91 to finish fourth. Both times are NCAA B Cut marks. Weiss and Peplowski become just the third and fourth swimmers in program history to swim sub-59 seconds in the event.
Junior Abby Kirkpatrick finished fifth in the 100 Breaststroke Consolation Final to claim 13th overall in a time of 1:00.54.
The 200 freestyle relay team of freshman Ashely Turak, Dupre, junior Grace Haskett, and Eiber finished third with an NCAA A Cut and school-record time of 1:28.37. Turak led off with a 50-split of 22.40, an NCAA B Cut.
Sophomore Mackenzie Looze led a pack of three Hoosiers in the 400 IM Championship Final with a fourth-place finish. She coasted in with a time of 4:08.79. Junior Bailey Kovac (4:11.16) and sophomore Noelle Peplowski (4:15.17) finished sixth and eighth, respectively. All three swimmers collected NCAA B Cut marks, while Kovac lowered her career-best time for the second-straight session.
Haskett finished eighth in the 100 Backstroke Championship Final with a final time of 53.17.
Senior Shelby Koontz finished third in the 100 Butterfly Consolation Final to claim 11th overall with a time of 53.82, while freshman Carla Gildersleeve finished 23rd overall out of the C Final with a time of 54.62.
Sophomore Alyssa Wang finished eighth in the Consolation Final with a final score of 247.65. She finished 16th overall in the event to mark her first-career points at the Big Ten Championships.
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The 2020 Big Ten Women’s Championships continue on Saturday with the last morning of prelims. The action gets underway at 11:00 a.m. ET with the prelims of the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststrokes, 200 butterflies, platform dive, and 1,650 freestyle.
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