Tyler Repeats as NCAA Platform Champion in Another 1-2 IU Diving Finish
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana clinched its fifth top-five national finish in six years Saturday (March 30) at the 2024 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships inside the IU Natatorium. The Hoosiers scored 376 points to finish fourth as a team for the second consecutive season.
Indiana remains among college swimming’s elite – in the last six years, only four teams have consistently finished with the top six nationally: Cal, Texas, Florida and the Indiana Hoosiers. The Hoosiers finished two points behind Florida and 56 points in front of NC State.
Fourteen Hoosiers combined for 43 All-America honors, both totals Indiana’s most since 19 athletes from the 1974 squad totaled 50 honors in a second-place team finish.
As well as the national finish, Indiana won its third consecutive Big Ten Championship during the 2023-24 season. The Hoosier men and women completed conference championship double for the second time in program history, and both teams finished the regular season 8-0 in dual meet competition.
Junior Carson Tyler repeated as the NCAA platform diving champion with a score of 515.75, IU’s best-ever score at an NCAA Championships. For the second-straight night, Tyler led a 1-2 Hoosier finish as sophomore Maxwell Weinrich took silver in 450.70. Junior Quinn Henninger finished seventh with a 377.65.
The Hoosiers captured a program record six diving medals of the nine available; two gold, two silver and two bronze. IU’s trio combined for 121 points on the boards, 66 points more than the second-best diving team – Ohio State – and outscoring all but 10 combined swimming and diving programs. Indiana has eclipsed 100 points at back-to-back NCAA Championships after earning 104 points last year. Tyler himself outscored Ohio State, totaling 56 points from his two championships and his bronze on the 1-meter board. Henninger had 46 points – better than all but two other teams – and Weinrich contributed 19.
Senior Brendan Burns finished his career in the most fitting way, swimming the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard butterfly on the same day for the first time at an NCAA Championships. Burns placed on the podium in both events thanks to his morning performances and finished seventh in the back and eighth in the fly. The fifth-year senior swam those events at every Big Ten Championships and became the first man in the conference to win both in the same year in 2021 – before repeating the feat in 2022 and 2023.
Burns closes his collegiate chapter a three-time NCAA Champion, four-time national runner-up, 25-time All-American and 22-time Big Ten Champion. He helped lead the Hoosiers to three Big Ten team titles and three top-five national finishes.
For the second-straight season, Tomer Frankel finished within the top five in both the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard butterfly. Frankel set a program record in the 100 fly Friday, becoming the first Hoosier ever under the 44-second barrier with times of 43.90 and 43.85.
RESULTS
1,650 FREESTYLE
- Tristan DeWitt – 14:51.45 (Career Best)
200 BACKSTROKE
7. Brendan Burns – 1:38.62 (All-America)
- Kai van Westering – 1:39.76 (Second-Team All-America)
100 FREESTYLE
- Rafael Miroslaw – 41.75 (Second-Team All-America)
200 BREASTSTROKE
- Jassen Yep – 1:51.51 (All-America)
- Maxwell Reich – 1:52.28 (Second-Team All-America)
200 BUTTERFLY
- Tomer Frankel – 1:39.35 (All-America)
- Brendan Burns – 1:41.73 (All-America)
PLATFORM
- Carson Tyler – 515.75 (NCAA Champion, All-America)
- Maxwell Weinrich – 450.70 (NCAA Silver, All-America, Career Best)
- Quinn Henninger – 377.65 (All-America)
400 FREESTYLE RELAY
- Tomer Frankel, Rafael Miroslaw, Luke Barr, Mikkel Lee – 2:47.13 (Second-Team All-America)
HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Luke Barr (200 IM*, 400 freestyle relay*)
Finn Brooks (200 medley relay, 100 butterfly*)
Brendan Burns (200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay, 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly)
Tomer Frankel (200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle relay*, 100 butterfly, 400 medley relay, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle relay*)
Quinn Henninger (1-meter, 3-meter, platform)
Mikkel Lee (200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay*, 400 freestyle relay*)
Josh Matheny (100 breaststroke, 400 medley relay)
Rafael Miroslaw (800 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle*, 200 freestyle relay*, 200 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 100 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay*)
Maxwell Reich (200 breaststroke*)
Carson Tyler (1-meter, 3-meter, platform)
Kai van Westering (800 freestyle relay, 200 backstroke*)
Maxwell Weinrich (3-meter*, platform)
Gavin Wight (200 freestyle relay*)
Jassen Yep (100 breaststroke*, 200 breaststroke)
* – Denotes second-team All-America
