INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI women's swimming and diving team will host Rutgers in a dual inside the Natatorium on Saturday (Oct. 30) at 10:00 a.m.. The Jaguars come in at 5-2 in duals this season, having defeated Butler, Lewis, Saint Louis, Valparaiso and Xavier and dropped meetings with Milwaukee and UIndy. 

Head coach Damion Dennis' team boasts some of the Horizon League's elite performers in the season's early going as junior Emma Theobald owns the league's best 500 free (5:05.68) time and freshman Emmaleigh Zietlow ranks fourth on that list (5:06.62). Zietlow is second in the league in the 1,000 free and Theobald and Lauren Thompson are among the league's top-5 in the 50, 100 and 200 back. Theobald owns the league's best 200 back (2:01.44) time. Theobald and Zietlow also rank among the league's best in the 200 IM and are the top two in the league in the 400 IM. 

Sophomore Ali Sippel is second in the league in the 200 breaststroke (2:24.54). 

The Jaguars also have three of the league's top sprinters in Caylee Hamilton, Lillian Brandt and Avery Brooks. Hamilton ranks third in the league in the 50 free at 24.17 and Brandt is sixth at 24.33. Brandt is fourth in the league in the 100 free at 53.03.  

On the boards, sophomore Sadie Smith has won back-to-back Horizon League Diver of the Week honors and is coming off season best efforts in both the 1-meter (280.13) and 3-meter (295.20) events. She has three wins in the 3-meter event and two wins off the 1-meter board this season. Behind her, freshman Isabella Smith has also performed well this season.