By Blake Dowson
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The Big Ten men’s swimming and diving championships concluded this past weekend with Michigan taking home its fifth-straight team title with 1,475.5 points. Iowa finished seventh with 551 points.

The Hawkeyes remained in seventh for the last three days of the meet.

Roman Trussov was the outstanding performer for Iowa.

The senior breaststroker broke his own school record in the 100 breaststroke en route to a second-place finish in the event, touching in 52.17.

Trussov was named the Hawkeye’s Sportsmanship Award recipient, and his runner-up finish in the 100 breaststroke earned him second-team All-Big Ten accolades.

Trussov also swam to a 10th-place finish in the 200 breaststroke in 1:57.05.

Senior Addison Boschult qualified for a pair of “A” finals in the diving well, scoring 359.25 points in the 3-meter springboard competition, good for seventh. Boschult followed up his performance on the springboard with sixth place on the platform with a score of 350.45.

Freshman Kenneth Mende earned a couple of top-15 finishes and planted himself in the top five in program history in two events as well.

Mende finished 14th in the 100 backstroke with a time of 47.45 in finals. Mende touched in the preliminaries at 47.24, third in school history.

On the final day of competition, Mende posted the fourth-fastest time in school history in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:43.87 during the preliminaries. He swam to a 1:44.65 finish in finals and placed 12th.

Sophomore Jerzy Twarowski notched a pair of top-10 finishes for the Hawkeyes, a strong performance for the native of Krakow, Poland.

Twarowski touched the wall in eighth place in the 100 butterfly, finishing in 47.47. He followed his 100 fly performance with a ninth-place finish in the 200 fly at 1:46.31.

The Hawkeyes again found a place on the podium in the 400-freestyle relay. The quartet of freshmen Matt Kamin and Jack Smith and seniors Charles Holliday and Trussov finished eighth at 2:56.46.

Smith and Kamin both swam in the finals of the 100 freestyle, with Smith as the top finisher for Iowa, finishing in 11th with a time of 43.86. Kamin placed 14th at 44.33.

The Hawkeyes continued their strong performances in the relays in the 200 freestyle. The team of senior Jackson Allen, Smith, Holliday, and senior Brandon Farnum swam to a 1:18.72 finish, good enough for seventh place, the third-fastest time in school history.

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