Hoosiers Win Two Titles on Final Night of Big Ten Championships

 COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 9-ranked Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team ended the 2018 Women’s Big Ten Championships on a high note Saturday night at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.

The Hoosiers won two Big Ten titles on Saturday night, bringing the team’s total to five for the week. In total, the Hoosiers won 10 medals – five gold, one silver and four bronze.

Indiana finished in second place at the Big Ten Championships with a total score of 1,152.5 points. Michigan won the team title with a score of 1,465, while Ohio State placed third with a total of 1,094.5. IU scored 27.5 more points than the team did last season at the Big Ten.

IU has placed first or second at the Big Ten Championships in each of the last 10 years, winning the title three-straight times from 2009 to 2011. The Hoosiers have finished second the last seven seasons.

Earning First-Team All-Big Ten honors for the Hoosiers were Grace Haskett, Christine Jensen

Lilly King, Jessica Parratto, and Ali Rockett.

Lilly King continued her unprecedented run in the breaststroke on Saturday night, winning the 200 breaststroke for the third-straight season with an NCAA A cut and McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion pool record time of 2:04.68. King’s time is the fourth-best mark in school history and ranks as the top-time in the nation this season.

With her win on Saturday night, King becomes the first woman in Big Ten history to sweep both the 100 and 200 breast three-straight years. In three seasons, King has won 12 Big Ten titles – seven individual and five on relays.

Also, in the Championship Final, Laura Morley finished eighth overall with an NCAA B cut time of 2:11.55. In the B Final, freshman Abby Kirkpatrick was sixth to place 14^thoverall with a personal-best and B cut mark of 2:12.80. In the C Final, Mackenzie Atencio was third to take 19^th overall with a PR and B cut of 2:13.40.

In the Championship Final of the platform dive, IU’s Jessica Parratto repeated as Big Ten champion to win the third title of her career with an NCAA Zones qualifying score of 378.15. Parratto’s mark is the fourth-best in school history and included dives that earned scores of 86.40 and 81.60.

Parratto had a tremendous week at the Big Ten Championships, as the redshirt junior was one of just three divers to make the Championship Final of all three events.

Senior Kennedy Goss led five Hoosiers in the 200 backstroke finals, winning the bronze medal in the Championship Final with an NCAA B cut time of 1:51.66.

In the B Final of the 200 back, Rachel Matsumura led a trio of Hoosiers with NCAA B cuts. The senior took third to place 11^th overall with a time of 1:55.13, while Marie Chamberlain was 15^th in 1:56.51. Freshman Camryn Forbes was 15^th in a time of  1:57.47.

In the C Final, freshman Bailey Kovac took second to finish 18^th overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:56.73.

In the 1,650 freestyle, Cassy Jernberg had a great performance, finishing fifth overall with an NCAA B cut and personal-best time of 15:54.41. Jernberg’s time is the fifth-fastest in school history and was less than a second off an NCAA A cut.

In the 400 freestyle relay, the Hoosier team of Delaney Barnard, Holly Spears, Kennedy Goss and Shelby Koontz just missed the school record time by 0.01 seconds, placing fifth overall with an NCAA B cut time of 3:15.76.

Shelby Koontz led three Hoosiers in the 200 butterfly, placing seventh overall in the Championship Final with an NCAA B cut time of 1:56.95.

In the B Final, Reagan Cook was seventh to place 15^th overall with a B cut of 1:58.66. In the C Final, junior Christine Jensen capped her great week, touching the wall first with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:57.98.

Delaney Barnard led three IU swimmers in the B Final of the 100 freestyle, all of whom touched the wall with NCAA B cuts. Barnard took third to finish 11^th overall with a  personal-best time of 49.23. Holly Spears was 12^th overall with a time of 49.36, while Maria Paula Heitmann was 14^th in 49.73.

In the C Final, senior Ali Rockett tied for second to finish in a tie for 17^th overall with a PR and NCAA B cut time of 49.48. Freshman Grace Haskett took 23^rd overall with a time of 50.22.

Over the course of the Big Ten Championships, the Hoosiers posted some impressive accolades. Indiana broke two school records, two Big Ten records, two Big Ten meet records and six McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion pool records. IU also amassed seven NCAA A cut times and had 58 personal-best marks.

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First-Team All-Big Ten

Grace Haskett

Christine Jensen

Lilly King

Jessica Parratto

Ali Rockett

Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree

Rachel Matsumura

 1,650 Freestyle

5. Cassy Jernberg – 15:54.41 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
6. Anne Rouleau – 16:49.33 (Personal Best)
7. Josie Grote – 16:52.43 (Personal Best)

 200 Backstroke

3. Kennedy Goss – 1:51.66 (NCAA B Cut)
4. Rachel Matsumura – 1:55.13 (NCAA B Cut)
5. Marie Chamberlain – 1:56.51 (NCAA B Cut)
6. Camryn Forbes – 1:57.47 (NCAA B Cut)
7. Bailey Kovac – 1:56.73 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

100 Freestyle

11. Delaney Barnard – 49.23 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
12. Holly Spears – 49.36 (NCAA B Cut)
13. Maria Paula Heitmann – 49.73 (NCAA B Cut)

T-17. Ali Rockett – 49.48 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

23. Grace Haskett – 50.22

200 Breaststroke

1. Lilly King – 2:04.68 (NCAA A Cut, Pool Record)
2. Laura Morley – 2:11.55 (NCAA B Cut)
3. Abby Kirkpatrick – 2:12.80 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)
4. Mackenzie Atencio – 2:13.40 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

200 Butterfly

7. Shelby Koontz – 1:56.95 (NCAA B Cut)
8. Reagan Cook – 1:58.66 (NCAA B Cut)
9. Christine Jensen – 1:57.98 (Personal Best, NCAA B Cut)

Platform Dive

1. Jessica Parratto – 378.15 (NCAA Zones Qualifying Score)

400 Freestyle Relay

5. Delaney Barnard, Holly Spears, Kennedy Goss, Shelby Koontz – 3:15.76 (NCAA B Cut)

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a key voting rights case necessitates the Department of Justice takes corrective action before the 2020 census, an Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law professor testified.

Michael J. Pitts appeared Feb. 2 before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to make the case for a Department of Justice-created “Local Redistricting Taskforce” to monitor local redistricting efforts.

By a 5-4 vote, the high court’s landmark decision in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 2 (2013), declared two key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be unconstitutional.

One of those was Section 5, which mandated that the federal government grant preclearance to certain jurisdictions before they could make changes to their voting laws.

Pitts said the main impact of this section was on local redistricting, which happens every 10 years after the most recent census. Because this part of the law was struck down, those local governments would no longer be required to have federal permission to redraw their lines.

“Without Section 5 there is no more automatic level of review,” he said. “The Justice Department provided the greatest protection in places that were more out of the way.”

Pitts said swift action must be taken now before the 2020 census begins. He said that since the Supreme Court’s decision came after the most recent census in 2010, this would be the first chance for these local governments to act without the previous level of oversight.

“Do they decide to backtrack and retrogress the ability of minority voters to elect their candidates of choice? … It remains to be seen,” he said. “Minorities are most underrepresented at the local level of government.”

However, Pitts said he didn’t see the need to enact new legislation as the DOJ already has the authority to act. “It conducts investigations all the time into potential voting rights violations,” he said.

Pitts’ scholarly work at McKinney focuses on the law of democracy, particularly voting rights and election administration. His work has been cited in law reviews, political science journals, briefs, federal and state judicial opinions, and congressional testimony.

Established in 1957, the commission is an independent, bipartisan federal agency charged with advising the president and Congress on civil rights matters and issuing an annual federal civil rights enforcement report.