IU’s King Wins National Championship in 200 Breaststroke

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IU’s King Wins National Championship in 200 Breaststroke

12/5/2015 11:14:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Indiana University freshman Lilly King won the national championship in the 200 LCM breaststroke on Saturday night in record fashion at the AT&T Winter National Championships.

King not only broke the Indiana school record, but shattered Amanda Beard's 15-year-old U.S. National Age Group record in the 17-18 age division with her mark of 2:24.47. Beard's record was the oldest in the age group before King broke it on Saturday night. The time also vaulted King up to 19th in the world rankings. On Friday night at the AT&T Winter National Championships, King earned the silver medal in the 100 LCM breaststroke.

Also in the championship final of the 200 LCM breaststroke, Indiana's Miranda Tucker placed fourth with a time of 2:26.08, ranking her second all-time at IU with her Olympic Trials qualifying mark.

Combined with their prelim times from this morning, King (2:27.01) and Tucker (2:26.08) set the top-four times in the 200 LCM breast in Indiana history on Saturday.

Kennedy Goss capped a great weekend at the AT&T Winter Nationals in the "A" final of the 200 LCM backstroke, finishing eighth with an Olympic Trials cut time of 2:16.54. In the morning prelims, Goss timed in with an even better OT qualifying time of 2:12.90.

Indiana had a great showing in the "B" final of the men's 100 LCM freestyle, as the Hoosiers Anze Tavcar and Blake Pieroni took the top-two spots. Tavcar won the "B" final with an Olympic Trials time of 49.69, while Pieroni came in second with an OT qualifying cut of 49.75. Tavcar's mark is tied for the third fastest in IU history, while Pieroni's is the fifth-fastest.

In the morning prelims of the 100 LCM freestyle, Kennedy Goss placed 57^th overall with a time of 57.63.

Indiana alumna Lindsay Vrooman had a terrific swim in the "A" final of the 800 LCM freestyle, earning the silver medal with an Olympic Trials cut time of 8:29.70. Vrooman went 8:26.76 in the morning prelims.

In the men's 200 LCM backstroke "B" final, Indiana alum James Wells placed third with an Olympic Trials qualifying time of 2:02.81.

The Indiana men's and women's swimming teams will be in action next on January 15-16, when the team begins the new year at a quad meet in Atlanta against Georgia Tech, Michigan and Alabama.

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