FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Under the shadow of Mt. Rainier, Indiana women’s swimming and diving reached its peak this week at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving, capturing a program record fourth place national finish.
The Hoosiers scored a program record 312 points, smashing their previous best mark of 219 set in 2023. Indiana outscored Tennessee by 14 points to reach the four-team trophy table.
The two teams were tied at 264 points following the 200-yard butterfly, the final individual swimming event, but diving made the difference. Senior Skyler Liu’s national title and Ella Roselli’s 12th-place finish on platform added 25 points to IU’s total, while the Lady Vols went scoreless in diving. Tennessee finished second in the 400-yard freestyle relay, ahead of IU’s tied-for-seventh placement, but the 11-point deficit did not make up for IU’s platform prowess.
Indiana also set program records for total medals (seven) and All-America honors (38), and for the first time in school history all five relays recorded top five finishes. Indiana athletes set program records in eight events.
PROGRAM RECORDS (Team)
| NEW | Previous | |
| Team Finish | 4th | 7th (2016, 2023, 2024) |
| Points | 312 | 219 (2023) |
| Medals | 7 | 5 (2016) |
| All-America Honors (Top 16) | 38 | 31 (2002, 2023, 2024) |
PROGRAM RECORDS (Event)
| Event | Time | Athlete(s) |
| 50 Freestyle | 21.56 | Kristina Paegle |
| 200 Freestyle | 1:40.50 | Anna Peplowski |
| 1,650 Freestyle | 15:42.40 | Ching Hwee Gan |
| 100 Backstroke | 49.62 | Miranda Grana |
| 200 Backstroke | 1:48.73 | Miranda Grana |
| 100 Butterfly | 50.01 | Miranda Grana |
| 400 Freestyle Relay | 3:10.47 | Peplowski, DeWitt, Grana, Paegle |
| 400 Medley Relay | 3:25.83 | DeWitt, Crawford, Grana, Paegle |
Indiana’s seniors “left it all out there” in their final night of collegiate competition.
Ching Hwee Gan earned her third-straight NCAA medal in the 1,650-yard freestyle while finally overtaking an 11-year-old program record. Gan’s 15:42.40 was almost four seconds faster that her previous personal best (15:46.22) and two seconds better than Lindsay Vrooman’s 15:44.45 that placed fifth at NCAAs in 2014.
Classmate Brearna Crawford entered her first-career championship final in the 200-yard breaststroke with a prelim time of 2:07.16 and career-best 2:06.86 and came out of the pool the NCAA bronze medalist after going sub-2:06 for the first time in her career. Crawford’s 2:05.66 makes her the third-fastest Hoosier ever, behind Lilly King and former teammate and now-assistant coach Noelle Peplowski.
Liu capped her career with her national title on platform. The four-time Big Ten Champion picked up her first two NCAA medals this week, also earning bronze on the 3-meter springboard on Friday. Indiana has won three of the last five women’s NCAA platform diving titles – Tarrin Gilliland repeated as tower champion from 2021-22. Between the men and women’s programs, Indiana has captured an NCAA platform championship each of the last five seasons.
Anna Peplowski scored maximum points out of the 100-yard freestyle consolation final, wrapping up a legendary meet performance and collegiate for the swimmer who is perhaps Indiana’s greatest-ever women’s freestyle swimmer. Peplowski won Indiana’s first freestyle championship Friday in the 200 free and took bronze in the 500 free for a second-straight year, bringing her career NCAA medal total to four. The senior finishes her collegiate career an Olympian, 21-time All-American and eight-time Big Ten Champion.
INDIANA MEDALISTS
Brearna Crawford – 200 breaststroke (bronze)
Ching Hwee Gan – 1,650 freestyle (bronze)
Miranda Grana – 100 backstroke (bronze)
Skyler Liu – Platform (champion), 3-meter (bronze)
Anna Peplowski – 200 freestyle (champion), 500 freestyle (bronze)
RESULTS (SATURDAY)
1,650 FREESTYLE
- Ching Hwee Gan – 15:42.40 (NCAA Bronze, All-America, Program Record, Career Best)
- Mariah Denigan – 15:58.58
200 BACKSTROKE
9. Miranda Grana – 1:48.73 (Second-team All-America, Program Record, Career Best)
100 FREESTYLE
- Anna Peplowski – 47.33 (Second-team All-America)
- Kristina Paegle – 47.69 (Second-team All-America)
200 BREASTSTROKE
- Brearna Crawford – 2:05.66 (NCAA Bronze, All-America, Career Best)
PLATFORM DIVING
- Skyler Liu – 382.15 (NCAA Champion, All-America)
- Ella Roselli – 302.95 (Second-team All-America)
400 FREESTYLE RELAY
T7. Anna Peplowski, Mya DeWitt, Miranda Grana, Kristina Paegle – 3:10.47 (All-America, Program Record)
HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Brearna Crawford – 200 medley relay*, 400 medley relay, 200 breaststroke
Mya DeWitt – 200 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke*, 400 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay
Ching Hwee Gan – 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle
Miranda Grana – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay, 200 backstroke*, 400 freestyle relay
Skyler Liu – 3-meter, Platform
Kacey McKenna – 200 medley relay*, 200 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke*
Kristina Paegle – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle*, 200 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay, 100 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay
Anna Peplowski – 800 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay
Ella Roselli – 1-meter*, Platform*
Reese Tiltmann – 800 freestyle relay
Lily Witte – 3-meter*
* – Denotes second-team honoree
