IU Women’s Swimming & Diving Heads to NCAA Championships

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The No. 17-ranked Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team heads to Austin, Texas this week for the 2019 NCAA Championships starting on Thursday at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.

The meet gets underway on Thursday for the Hoosiers. The meet will run through Saturday, with prelims starting at 10:00 a.m. ET each day and finals each night at 6:00 p.m. ET. Live swimming results can be found at IUHoosiers.com, while live diving results are located atDiveMeets.com.

Streaming/TV Schedule

ESPN will provide live linear coverage for both Friday and Saturday finals on ESPNU, as well as digital coverage on ESPN3 for Wednesday and Thursday evening finals. All sessions not part of ESPN’s broadcasts will be streamed live on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships microsite at https://texassports.com/.

Qualified Hoosiers

A total of 17 Hoosiers will be making the trip to Austin this week to compete at the NCAA Championships. Along with the individual events, IU will also compete in four relays.

Below is a list of the 17 Hoosier swimmers who qualified for individual events at the 2019 NCAA Championships, along with their seeding in each event, when applicable:

Bailey Andison – 200 IM (6th), 400 IM (5th), 200 Breaststroke (25th)

Laurel Eiber – Relay Alternate

Josie Grote – 400 IM (37th)

Christine Jensen – 200 IM (16th), 100 Butterfly (12th)

Cassy Jernberg – 500 Freestyle (31st), 1,650 Freestyle (10th)

Lilly King – 200 IM (13th), 100 Breaststroke (1st), 200 Breaststroke (1st)

Abby Kirkpatrick – Relay Alternate

Shelby Koontz – 100 Butterfly (26th)

Mackenzie Looze – 200 IM (28th), 400 IM (22nd)

Laura Morley – 200 Breaststroke (17th)

Jessica Parratto – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform Dive

Noelle Peplowski – 100 Breaststroke (11th), 200 Breaststroke (11th)

Christin Rockway – 400 IM (29th)

Morgan Scott – 100 Backstroke (19th)

Maggie Wallace – 1,650 Freestyle (30th)

Julia Wolf – Relay Alternate

NCAA Championship History

The Hoosiers are having the most successful run at the NCAA Championships in program history, having not finished lower than 15th in the last 11 years, posting five top-10 finishes in that stretch.

With King’s titles in the 100 and 200 breaststroke last season, Indiana has won eight titles over the last five seasons – most prolific stretch of any Big Ten team in history. IU is also the first squad in league history to win at least one national title in five-consecutive seasons.

Last year at the 2018 NCAA Championships, Indiana finished in eighth place with a total of 169 points.  The Hoosiers posted the team’s third-straight top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships for the first time since accomplishing the feat from 2008-10. The top-10 finish was the ninth in school history.

2019 Big Ten Championships

Indiana captured the team’s first Big Ten championship for the first time in 2011 with a total score of 1,386.5 points.

Over the course of the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Championships, the Hoosiers won a total of 14 medals – seven gold, one silver and six bronze. Earning First-Team All-Big Ten honors for the Hoosiers were Bailey Andison, Christine Jensen, Lilly King, Shelby Koontz, Jessica Parratto and Morgan Scott.