Randby Shatters 27-Year-Old Record – University of Nebraska

The Nebraska swimming and diving team closed Friday at the 2023 Big Ten Championships with the second broken school record of the meet, a pair of A-finalists and five swimmers climbing the All-Time list.

JoJo Randby highlighted the day for the Huskers, breaking the 27-year-old 100 breaststroke school record with an outstanding 1:00.10 in the prelims. Penny Heyns, who went on to win the gold medal in the 100 and 200 breaststroke at the 1996 Olympic Games held the previous record. Randby’s record didn’t last long, as she re-broke it during the finals to finish seventh with a 1:00.07.

Maia Hall earned a spot in the B-final and swam a career-best 1:00.76 to get an NCAA B-Standard Cut and move up to fourth in school history. In the C-final, Sydney McCracken represented the Big Red and placed 21st with a 1:02.66.

A day after breaking the 500 freestyle school record, Shannon Stott pitched in another top performance to qualify for the 200 freestyle A-final with the No. 2 time swam in school history, 1:46.46. That gives the senior from St. Albans, Great Britain another NCAA B-Standard Cut. In the final, Stott placed eighth with a 1:46.54.

Three Huskers qualified for the 400 IM finals, led by Berkeley Livingston swimming her second-fastest time ever (4:15.41) to get the NCAA B-Standard Cut. She went on to finish 16th. 

Sarah Barton and Gena Jorgenson both swam career-best times in the finals to climb the All-Time list and earn NCAA B-Standard Cuts. In the B-final, Barton clocked a 4:15.60, the fourth-fastest in Nebraska history, to finish 16th overall. Jorgenson cut almost an entire two seconds off her prelims time to win the C-final with a 4:15.95. That puts the freshman at fifth on the All-Time list.

After earning spots in the 100 butterfly C-final, Lexi Kucera placed 22nd overall with a 54.60 and Caitlin Cairns finished 23rd with a 54.85.

Gabby Donahue swam a career-best 100 backstroke time in the prelims and was on the cusp of qualifying for finals, finishing 25th with a 54.49.

The divers took on three-meter on Friday, where Kelsey Clairmont provided the top finish for NU, taking 25th with a score of 257.25. 

Entering the final day of competition, Nebraska is in 10th in the team race with 299 points.

Nebraska will return to the Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Mich. for the final day of the conference meet tomorrow at 9 a.m. (CT).

2023 Big Ten Championships

Ann Arbor, Mich. (Canham Natatorium)

February 15-18, 2023

Prelims at 9 a.m. (CT), Finals at 4 p.m. (CT)

Order of Events

Saturday

1,650 Freestyle

200 Backstroke

100 Freestyle

200 Breaststroke

200 Butterfly

Platform Diving

400 Freestyle Relay