Seminole Fall Classic

October 9-10, 2026
Tallahassee, FL
SCY (25 Yards)
Full Meet Results
Team Scores

Women: Florida State 391 — 284 Iowa State
Men: #22 Purdue 352.5 — #24 Florida State 347.5

The Seminole Fall Classic featured just three teams this year with the Florida State women hosting the Iowa State women and the FSU men hosting Purdue in Tallahassee. Ultimately, the Florida State women came out on top by a little more than 100 points and the Purdue men won a very close meet against the Florida State men.

Women’s Recap

The Florida State women won all four relays at the meet, which featured the 4×25 freestyle relay and the 4×25 medley relay. Their 4×25 freestyle relay of Maryn McDade (10.51), Ioana Stirbu (10.64), Mary Leigh Hardman (10.57), and Emma Alsen (10.17) swam 41.89.

In the 4×25 medley relay, Alice Velden, Amelia Marek, Pauline Zeller, and Maryn McDade swam 43.43.

The Florida State 4×50 freestyle relay team of Emma Alsen (23.49), Ioana Stirbu (23.07), Mary Leigh Hardman (23.02), and Maryn McDade (22.39) swam 1:31.96 to finish a little more than three seconds ahead of Iowa State’s relay of Grace Swoboda, Emma Kuhn, Kendall Schindler, and Piper Hagen who swam 1:35.25. There are no splits available.

The Seminoles also won the 4×50 medley relay in 1:37.90 by about five seconds with Alice Velden (24.33), Amelia Marek (27.28), Maryn McDade (23.65), and Emma Alsen (22.64). Iowa State took 2nd in 1:43.02 with their team of Emma Kuhn (26.53), Grace Swoboda (27.44), Keirlyn Mullica (25.00), and Kendall Schindler (24.10).

There were a few individual athletes who had very strong performances. Florida State sophomore Lucy Porter won four events and picked up a second place finish over the two day meet.

She started the meet with a win and lifetime best in the women’s 400 IM, stopping the clock in 4:16.82 to take a second off the 4:17.32 mark she set at last year’s ACC Championships.

She also won the 100 IM, swimming 55.87, and the 200 IM, swimming another personal best 1:58.22, taking three tenths off the 1:58.59 she swam at last season’s ACC Championships.

Her other event win came in the 500 freestyle where she stopped the clock in 4:53.21 for her first ever time swimming the event.

There were a few other multi-event winners from Florida State. Junior Alice Velden won the 50 back and 100 backstroke events, swimming 24.68 in the 50 back and 54.18 in the 100 back.

Pauline Zeller, a sophomore, won the 50 fly and the 100 fly, swimming 24.05 in the 50 fly and 53.72 in the 100 fly.

They also won both diving events courtesy of junior Evelyn Hall.

The Iowa State Cyclones swept the breaststroke events with junior Grace Swoboda swimming new personal best times in all three. She stopped the clock in 27.75 in the 50 breaststroke, 59.65 in the 100 breast, and 2:11.18 in the 200 breast.

Her 100 breast marked her first time under 1:00 in the event, taking more than half-a-second off the 1:00.18 she swam at last year’s Big 12 Championships. In the 200 breast, she dropped seven tenths from the 2:11.89 she swam, also at the Big 12 Championships.

Women’s Event Winners:

Men’s Recap

The men’s meet was very close with only five points separating the two teams at the end of the meet. Purdue ultimately came out on top with 352.5 points.

The teams split the relays, with Florida State taking both freestyle relays and Purdue winning both medley relays.

Florida State’s 4×25 freestyle relay team swam 35.09. In the 4×50 freestyle relay, Florida State won again with their final time of 1:19.04. There is no personnel available for either relay in the results.

The 4×25 medley relay was won by the Purdue team of Luca Scampicchio (10.25), Aran Bissett (10.46), Nathaniel Thomas (9.19), and Janis Deivs Dzirkalis (8.26) in 38.16.

Their 4×50 medley relay team of Scampicchio, Chris Bartmess (24.18), Thomas (21.25), and Dzirkalis (19.08) swam 1:26.18 to beat Florida State’s 1:26.34 by two tenths.

Purdue did not have any multi-event winners over the course of the meet, but Florida State has a few. Junior Logan Robinson won five events during the meet, including all three butterfly events.

In the 50 fly, he swam 20.91, a new lifetime best for him. He also swam 46.09 in the 100 fly 1:43.42 in the 200 fly, and 47.74 in the 100 IM. He also picked up a win in the 200 freestyle, stopping the clock in 1:34.88, adding a little more than three seconds from the 1:31.18 he set at the ACC Championships to finish 2nd.

Junior Mathias Christensen won both of the longer IM events as well as the 200 breaststroke, and he picked up a silver medal in the 100 breaststroke with a personal best 53.95. Christensen swam 1:57.50 in the 200 breast, 1:44.38 in the 200 IM, and 3:43.93 in the 400 IM.

Finally, senior Andrew Rich won the 50 and 100 backstroke. He swam 21.97 in the 50 back and 47.69 in the 100 back. He also finished 3rd in the 200 back at 1:47.01.

Other Men’s Event Winners

50 Freestyle: Janis Deivs Dzirkalis (PUR) — 19.71
100 Freestyle: Aran Bissett (PUR) — 43.14
500 Freestyle: Evan Mackesy (PUR) — 4:23.31
200 Backstroke: Blake Rowe (PUR) — 1:42.07
50 Breaststroke: Chris Bartmess (PUR) — 24.61
100 Breaststroke: Tom Jhang (PUR) — 53.93