INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana captured two national titles Friday (March 29) night at the 2024 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships inside the IU Natatorium, repeating championships in the 100-yard backstroke and 3-meter diving events.
Brendan Burns defended his 100-yard backstroke title despite from lane one. Burns won in a time of 43.86, just three hundredths of a second in front of the 2022 champion, NC State’s Kacper Stokowski. The junior is now a three-time NCAA champion, winning the 200-yard butterfly in 2022. He’ll swim the 200 fly and the 200-yard backstroke on Saturday – his final meet day as a Hoosier.
The Indiana diving duo of juniors Carson Tyler and Quinn Henninger have combined for four medals in two days, finishing first and second on the 3-meter board Friday. Tyler won his second-career national championship, first on 3-meter, with a score of 476.85 and will defending his 2023 platform title Saturday. Henninger took silver with a 461.75. The pair was part of a 1-3-4 finish for IU a year ago behind now-pro Andrew Capobianco’s third-career 3-meter title.
IU sits No. 4 in the team race with 247 points through three days at the national meet, behind third place Florida (273 points) and in front of fifth-place NC State (206).
