Swimming and Diving Set to Compete at Purdue Invitational

Nov. 15, 2012

The University of Louisville men's and women's swimming and diving teams will head to W. Lafayette, Ind. for the Purdue Invitational which begins Friday at 10 a.m. and runs through Sunday evening. Swimming preliminary sessions are daily at 10 a.m. Diving prelims begin at 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The divers will compete in platform diving for the first time this season Sunday at noon. Platform diving is a finals only event. The relay events will be contested along with the point-scoring individual finals in the evening sessions, which are set for 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.

Purdue will host men's and women's teams from Cincinnati, Louisville, Missouri State, Southern Illinois and Utah on campus this weekend for the largest meet of the 2012-13 college season at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center. Michigan will also be represented by smaller groups of selected competitors.

As many as 30 countries could be represented at the three-day, six-session Purdue Invitational swimming and diving meet at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center this weekend.

Many international student-athletes from as many as 29 countries could be competing at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center this weekend. Along with the USA, those 29 countries includes: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

AustraliaJasmine Matkovic (Wellington Point) -- UtahAustriaNikolas Sachs (Vienna) -- LouisvilleBrazilIsabela Castro (Belo Horizonte) -- Southern IllinoisPedro Coutinho (Goiania) -- LouisvilleJoao De Lucca (Rio de Janeiro) -- LouisvilleAndrade Esteavo (Belo Horizonte) -- Southern IllinoisAlex Fernandes (Sao Paulo) -- UtahYuri Garanito (Sao Paulo) -- Missouri StateGiuliana Gigliotti (Rio de Janeiro) -- UtahJuliana Kagami (Sao Paulo) -- Missouri StateMarco Madeira (Rio de Janeiro) -- Southern IllinoisRenata Sander (Belo Horizonte) -- Missouri StateLuisa Silveira (Floriandpolis) -- Southern IllinoisCanadaSebastien Aube (La Sarre, Quebec) -- PurdueJamie Bissett (Ottawa, Ontario) -- PurdueDevon Bibault (Edmonton, Alberta) -- LouisvillePaolina Carnevale (Mississauga, Ontario) -- UtahLyam Dias (L'Original, Ontario) -- PurdueMelissa Larocque (Valleyfield, Quebec) -- Southern IllinoisKersten Merry (Edmonton, Alberta) -- UtahBrittany Weigel (Edmonton, Alberta) -- Southern IllinoisChinaNelson Foo (Hong Kong) -- UtahCheri Zhang (Hu Bei) -- Southern IllinoisColombiaJuan Lopez (Bogota) - LouisvilleJuan Arbelaez (Ibague) -- Southern IllinoisCzech RepublicHelena Pikhartova (Prague) -- CincinnatiEl SalvadorPamela Benitez (San Salvador) -- Southern IllinoisEnglandCharlotte Davies (Margate) -- Southern IllinoisFrancesca Marr (London) -- PurdueFinlandPetra Soininen (Espoo) -- UtahFranceThomas Dahlia (Antibes) -- LouisvilleThomas Defay (Nantes) -- Southern IllinoisGermanyMilli Puth (Mainz) -- CincinnatiTill Pallmann (Zweibrucken) -- Southern IllinoisElla Otto (Stuttgart) -- Southern IllinoisHungaryCsaba Gercsak (Budapest) -- Southern IllinoisBence Kiraly (Szeged) -- UtahEszter Povazsay (Dunakeszi) -- LouisvilleIsraelRoni Balzam (Ramat Yishay) -- Missouri StateJordanAwse Ma'aya (Amman) - CincinnatiKazakhstanOleg Rabota (Almaty) -- Southern IllinoisLatviaUvis Kalnins (Valmiera) -- Missouri StateLithuaniaGrite Apanaviciute (Anykscai) -- LouisvilleMexicoAnji Li (Cuernavaca) -- PurdueRoberto Nevarez (Chihuahua) -- CincinnatiPolandAleksandra Kaminska (Warsaw) - CincinnatiMichal Bulak (Zamosc) -- Missouri StateOlaf Meller (Olsztyn) -- Southern IllinoisWeronika Wasiakowska (Przykop) - CincinnatiRussiaIuliia Fedoreeva (Barnaul) -- CincinnatiSloveniaJan Petric (Kranj) -- PurdueNika Petric (Kranj) -- PurdueSouth AfricaJanke Engelbrecht (Tzaneen) -- Missouri StateDaan Jansen (Polokwane) -- Missouri StateSuzanne Van Rensburg (Polokwane) -- Missouri StateSpainGuillermo Blanco (Madrid) - PurdueEduard Galdeano (Tarraonga) -- PurdueMarta Nogueroles (Barcelona) -- Missouri StateSwedenAnna Ahlin (Stockholm) -- Missouri StateBjorn Gunnarsson (Norrkoping) -- UtahJonas Holmstrom (Malmo) -- UtahKristian Kron (Handen) -- UtahTrinidad & TobagoCaryle Blondell (San Fernando Hill) -- LouisvilleUkraineVitalii Baryshok (Lugansk) -- Missouri StateUnited Arab EmiratesKevin Riazanov (Dubai) -- UtahVenezuelaRuben Izarra -- LouisvilleAndrea Uzcategui (Caracas) -- Missouri State

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Swimming and Diving Set to Compete at Purdue Invitational

Players Mentioned

Grite Apanaviciute

Devon Bibault

Caryle Blondell

Pedro Coutinho

Thomas Dahlia

Ruben Izarra

Juan Lopez

Eszter Povazsay

Nikolas Sachs

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