ATHENS, Ga. – Indiana will have six swims in the final evening of the 2024 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday (March 23) inside the Gabrielsen Natatorium on the campus of the University of Georgia.
Indiana’s final session kicks off in 1,650-yard freestyle heats, with three Hoosier juniors competing. Elyse Heiser will swim in the second of six heats, scheduled for 4:08 p.m. ET. Big Ten bronze medalist and the seventh-place national finisher in 2023, Mariah Denigan is slated for the fifth heat at 4:59 p.m.
No. 3 seed Ching Hwee Gan will swim in the final heat that will officially begin Saturday’s final session at 6 p.m. Gan was the NCAA runner-up a year ago with a time of 15:46.28. She approached that mark at midseason, clocking a 15:48.70.
Junior Anna Peplowski has advanced to the championship final in all three of her individual events, earning program records in each along the way. Peplowski finished seventh in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries with a new school standard 47.27. Sophomore Kristina Paegle made it to the consolation final in 47.72.
Senior Ashley Turak swam her final individual race in a personal best 48.23. The fifth-year has set individual records in each of her three events this week, her final collegiate meet. Turak is expected to swim the 400-yard freestyle relay to end the night. Indiana boasts the No. 9-seeded relay coming into the evening, but a top-8 finish would mark the program’s first NCAA meet reaching the podium in four relays.
RESULTS (Prelims)
200 BACKSTROKE
- Kacey McKenna – 1:56.44
100 FREESTYLE
- Anna Peplowski – 47.27 (Championship Final, All-America, Program Record, Career Best)
- Kristina Paegle – 47.72 (Consolation Final, Second-Team All-America)
- Ashley Turak – 48.23 (Career Best)
200 BREASTSTROKE
- Brearna Crawford – 2:08.60 (First Alternate)
200 BUTTERFLY
- Anna Freed – 1:56.65 (Career Best)
PLATFORM
- Ella Roselli – 237.30
- Skyler Liu – 219.20
HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Brearna Crawford (200 medley relay*, 400 medley relay*)
Ching Hwee Gan (800 freestyle relay)
Anne Fowler (1-meter*, 3-meter)
Kacey McKenna (200 medley relay*, 200 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay*)
Kristina Paegle (200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle*, 200 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay*, 100 freestyle*)
Anna Peplowski (800 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle, 400 medley relay*, 100 freestyle)
Ella Ristic (800 freestyle relay)
Chiok Sze Yeo (200 medley relay*)
Ashley Turak (50 freestyle*, 200 freestyle relay)
