Indiana men’s and women’s swimming head coach Ray Looze, 16-time All-America selection Lilly King and 14-time All-American Mohamad Samy were honored with yearly Swammy Awards from SwimSwam.
 Ray Looze
2020 U.S. Coach of the Year
Looze, who leads Indiana Swim Club, had a highly successful summer. Under his guidance, both King and Samy earned yearly Sammy Awards.
Other notable ISL performances came from Annie Lazor, Cody Miller, Zach Apple and Blake Pieroni. Lazor finished 2020 as the seventh-fastest performer all-time in the 200 breast and as the 10th-fastest all-time in the 100 breast. Miller finished the year ranked 12th in the 100 LCM breaststroke and 18th in the 200 LCM breaststroke. Apple was the second-fastest 100 freestyle performer in the ISL in the 2020 season behind only Caeleb Dressel. Pieroni and Apple also rank 14th and 15th, respectively, in the 200 freestyle.
Lilly King
2020 U.S. Female Swimmer of the Year
King, feeling rejuvenated by a brief hiatus from the pool due to COVID-19 restrictions, turned in another historic ISL season. In her two professional seasons, King has amassed a record of 31-3 in individual breaststroke events in ISL competition, including a perfect record of 10-0 in her best event, the 100 breaststroke.
King ranks second all-time in the 50 breaststroke, third all-time in the 100 SCM breaststroke, and fourth all-time in the 200 SCM breaststroke. She lowered the American Records in both the 50 breast (28.77) and 100 breast (1:02.50) in 2020, while she broke the American Record twice in the 50 breaststroke during the ISL season. King also swam the fastest 200 breaststroke of any American woman since Rebecca Soni set the mark in 2009.
Mohamed Samy
2020 African Male Swimmer of the Year
Samy earned the distinction after a successful run during the 2020 Big Ten Championships before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the NCAA Championships. He totaled 80 points and helped guide the Hoosiers to a third-place finish at Big Tens. He earned bronze medals in the 100 and 200 freestyle events, placed fourth in the 200 IM and anchored a pair of winning freestyle relay squads.
He parlayed his collegiate success into six Egyptian records and a fifth-place effort in the 200 IM with the DC Trident inside the ISL’s Budapest bubble. Samy is the first non-South African swimmer to win the award.
