As Northwestern honored its seniors in the pool Saturday, the men’s and women’s swim teams put on a record-setting show.

The No. 25-ranked men’s team upset No. 19 Wisconsin 161-133, while the No. 22 women’s team fell just short against the No. 15 Badgers 154-146. 

In the second race of the day, the men’s 400 medley, the Wildcats’ quartet of junior Stuart Seymour, sophomore Joshua Staples, junior Connor Schuster and sophomore Oliver Kós swam a time of 3:05.27. The mark broke the Norris Aquatics Center record by over two seconds.

Another facility record fell in the 200 free relay, with the same crew winning the race with a time of 1:16.98. The record-breaking day continued when junior Cade Duncan edged out Seymour by .07 seconds in the 100 freestyle, as both of them beat the previous facility record and Duncan bested Matt Grevers’ program record from 2007 to take the title.

Junior Diego Nosack also added to the new records. His second-place finish in the 400 individual medley was good enough to break the facility record as well.

Records continued to fall in men’s diving, as junior Adam Cohen broke his own record from last weekend’s meet against UChicago with a score of 409.75. His teammate, junior Ryan Augustine, finished second.

Despite the loss, the women’s 200 free relay team of seniors Lindsay Ervin and Audrey Yu, graduate student Ekaterina Nikonova and junior Amy Pan qualified for the NCAA tournament with a pool-record time of 1:28.06.

The record-breaking party added another guest when junior Sydney Smith set a pool record for the women’s 200 freestyle with a time of 1:45.25.

Seymour continued his strong day by claiming another victory, this time in the 100 backstroke. Staples and Schuster also won their individual races, the 100 breaststroke and 50 freestyle, respectively.

The ’Cats’ next meets are Jan. 30 against Minnesota and Jan. 31 against Purdue.

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