BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 4/6 Indiana men’s and women’s swimming and diving fell to No. 2/2 Texas in early-season dual meet action on Friday (Nov. 1) inside the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas.
Indiana’s day, split in two sessions, was highlighted most-of-all by its veteran men’s divers. Seniors Carson Tyler and Quinn Henninger finished 1-2 on both springboards. Tyler posted scores of 407.03 on 1-meter and 441.60 on 3-meter. Henninger was right behind him with scores of 353.78 and 408.98. Freshman Joshua Sollenberger placed fourth on 1-meter (339.23) and junior Maxwell Weinrich was fourth on 3-meter (375.45). On the women’s side, senior Skyler Liu was the runner-up on the 1-meter board (301.05) and third on 3-meter (312.93).
Sophomore Miranda Grana continued her fast form, winning the backstroke double. In the morning, Grana posted an NCAA A cut in the 200-yard backstroke with a 1:50.50, the fastest time in the nation this season. She followed it up in the evening with a 51.04 in the 100 back to become the second-fastest woman in program history.
IU swept the 200 back thanks to Grana and junior Owen McDonald’s program record and NCAA A cut 1:38.13 in the morning. McDonald toppled Brendan Burns’ 1:38.18 from the 2023 NCAA Championships.
Like Grana, junior Kristina Paegle won two events. Paegle outpaced Texas Olympian Erin Gemmell in the 50-yard freestyle (21.92) and 100-yard freestyle (48.11) and posted the meet’s best anchor splits in the 200 freestyle relay (21.42) and 200 medley relay (21.48).
Junior Zalán Sárkány posted Indiana’s second program record of the day in the 1,000-yard freestyle. His 8:39.44 was 10 seconds quicker than IU’s previous standard and finished second Friday by nineteen hundredths.
TEAM SCORES
Men: No. 2 Texas 97, No. 4 Indiana 89
Women: No. 2 Texas 123, No. 6 Indiana 63
HOOSIER WINNERS
Men
Luke Barr – 200 freestyle relay (1:16.57)
Finn Brooks – 200 freestyle relay (1:16.57)
Mikkel Lee – 200 freestyle relay (1:16.57), 50 freestyle (19.32)
Owen McDonald – 200 backstroke (1:38.13)
Dylan Smiley – 200 freestyle relay (1:16.57)
Carson Tyler – 1-meter (407.03), 3-meter (441.60)
Jassen Yep – 200 breaststroke (1:51.94)
Women
Miranda Grana – 200 backstroke (1:50.50), 100 backstroke (51.04)
Kristina Pa
