Before heading home for Thanksgiving break, the Notre Dame swimming and diving programs will split up and compete at concurrent invitational meets from Nov. 16-18. Swimming will compete at the Ohio State Fall Invitational, while diving will make the trek to Indianapolis to compete at the IUPUI House of Champions.
In Columbus, the Irish swimmers will face a collection of very talented teams: No. 14 men/No. 5 women Ohio State, No. 5/No. 9 Indiana, No. 12/No. 3 Louisville, Cincinnati, Ohio University (women only). Cal and Kenyon’s dive teams will also be there.
Season So Far —
The Notre Dame men are currently 5-0 and ranked No. 12 in the nation, while the women are 2-3.
Chris Guiliano and Tommy Janton have been the stars of the show thus far for head coach Chris Lindauer’s men’s team. Guiliano has notched wins in eight individual events, and Janton has seven wins of his own. In the diving well, Carlo Lopez Hernandez has already made his mark after transferring from Missouri. He won the 1-meter springboard at Louisville two weeks ago.
On the women’s side, junior Madelyn Christman has had a very successful dual meet season so far. She has won three individual events, most recently earning a victory in the 100 back at No. 3 Louisville.
Additionally, Calie Brady earned Co-ACC Diver of the Week honors in Week 1, and Grace Courtney has also put together multiple strong performances. She won both the 1-meter and 3-meter against Pittsburgh and Penn State.
What’s To Come —
The full meet psych sheet can be found here.
Notre Dame has three swimmers seeded first across five events.
- Chris Guiliano — 50 free (19.35)
- Cason Wilburn — 100 fly (46.45)
- Tommy Janton — 100 back (45.86)
- Tommy Janton — 200 back (1:41.29)
- Chris Guiliano — 100 free (41.63)
All prelims sessions at Ohio State begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday finals start at 5:30 p.m., while Saturday begins at 6:00 p.m. All sessions can be streamed on B1G+.