BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming and diving won all five duals meets during the two-day USC Invitational Friday and Saturday (Oct. 10-11) inside the Uytengsu Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
The Hoosiers swept the four relays and won 18 individual events. Three IU swimmers – freshman Liberty Clark, junior Miranda Grana and senior Zalán Sárkány – won all three of their individual events. Twelve Hoosiers captured NCAA qualifying times and seven IU divers picked up NCAA zone qualifying scores on the springboards.
The Indiana men won 15 of 17 swimming events while holding No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 17 USC to double-digit team scores.
A day after becoming the second woman to go 1:42 in the 200-yard freestyle, Clark dropped the program’s second fastest time in the 100-yard freestyle. Her 47.39 is the fastest time by a Hoosier outside of a championship meet and is just 21 hundredths short of Olympian Anna Peplowski’s program record. Clark won the 50 free, 100 free, 200 free and participated in all four relay victories.
A part of three of the four winning relays, Grana totaled six victories over the meet. The junior swam the program’s best-ever non-championship times in the 100-yard backstroke (50.75) and 200-yard backstroke (1:49.85) to sweep that stroke while also winning the 100-yard butterfly (51.55).
Sárkány posted the program’s best non-championship times in the 500-yard freestyle (4:11.39) and 1,650-yard freestyle (14:29.87) and won a third race in the 400-yard IM (3:43.45). His mile time shattered the USC pool record (prev. 14:41.62) and finished 49 seconds in front of the field.
TEAM SCORES
Men
No. 2 Indiana 257, No. 17 USC 95
No. 2 Indiana 278, No. 14 Texas A&M 74
Women
No. 9 Indiana 190, No. 12 USC 162
No. 9 Indiana 235, No. 24 UCLA 112
No. 9 Indiana 238, No. 21 Texas A&M 108
HOOSIER WINNERS
Women
Liberty Clark – 400 medley relay (3:30.27), 50 freestyle (22.03), 200 freestyle relay (1:28.50), 200 freestyle (1:42.43), 200 medley relay (1:37.10), 100 freestyle (47.39), 400 freestyle relay (3:12.20)
Mya DeWitt – 400 medley relay (3:30.27), 200 freestyle relay (1:28.50), 200 medley relay (1:37.10)
Miranda Grana – 400 medley relay (3:30.27), 100 backstroke (50.75), 100 butterfly (51.55), 200 medley relay (1:37.10), 200 backstroke (1:49.85), 400 freestyle relay (3:12.20)
Macky Hodges – 400 freestyle relay (3:12.20)
Jonette Laegreid – 400 medley relay (3:30.27), 200 medley relay (1:37.10)
Kristina Paegle – 200 freestyle relay (1:28.50), 400 freestyle relay (3:12.20)
Ella Roselli – 1-meter diving (288.70)
Chiok Sze Yeo – 200 freestyle relay (1:28.50)
Men
Alexei Avakov – 100 breaststroke (52.22), 200 medley relay (1:24.58)
Noah Cakir – 400 medley relay (3:05.97), 200 breaststroke (1:54.19)
Vidar Carlbaum – 200 freestyle relay (1:18.06)
Brandon Fleck – 200 freestyle (1:35.50)
Miroslav Knedla – 100 backstroke (45.58), 200 medley relay (1:24.58), 200 backstroke (1:40.44)
Mikkel Lee – 400 medley relay (3:05.97), 200 freestyle relay (1:18.06), 50 freestyle (19.16), 200 medley relay (1:24.58), 100 freestyle (43.31), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.98)
Owen McDonald – 400 medley relay (3:05.97), 200 freestyle relay (1:18.06), 200 IM (1:42.91), 200 medley relay (1:24.58), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.98)
Raekwon Noel – 400 medley relay (3:05.97), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.98)
Zalán Sárkány – 500 freestyle (4:11.39), 400 IM (3:43.45), 1,650 freestyle (14:29.87)
Dylan Smiley – 200 freestyle relay (1:18.06), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.98)
NCAA QUALIFIERS
Women’s 400 medley relay (3:30.27), Women’s 400 freestyle relay (3:12.20); Alexei Avakov – 100 breast (52.22); Noah Cakir – 200 breast (1:54.19); Liberty Clark – 50 free (22.28), 200 free (1:42.43), 100 free (47.39); Mya DeWitt – 100 back (52.34), 200 back (1:54.06); Miranda Grana – 100 back (50.75), 100 fly (51.55), 200 back (1:49.85); Macky Hodges – 200 back (1:54.06); Miroslav Knedla – 100 back (45.58), 200 back (1:40.44); Mikkel Lee – 50 free (19.43); Owen McDonald – 200 IM (1:42.91), 200 fly (1:42.01); Zalán Sárkány – 500 free (4:11.39), 400 IM (3:43.45), 1650 free (14:29.87); Reese Tiltmann – 400 IM (4:12.62); Kai van Westering – 100 back (45.87)
NCAA ZONE QUALIFIERS
1-meter: Joshua Hedberg (334.40), Ella Roselli (288.70), Lily Witte (279.00)
3-meter: Kaylee Bishop (287.00), Joshua Hedberg (362.25), Aiden Sadler (328.75), Joshua Sollenberger (360.75), Maxwell Weinrich (351.50), Lily Witte (297.55)
