Indiana Sends 11 to NCAA Championships

3/14/2016 12:46:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana University men's swimming and diving team will send 11 student-athletes to the 2016 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta on March 23-26.

Along with the nine swimmers who qualified for the NCAA Championships, the Hoosiers also had both Joshua Arndt and Cody Coldren qualify as divers.

The Hoosiers have recorded some tremendous times this season, earning seven individual top-10 seeds at this year's NCAA Championships. In total, IU's nine swimming qualifiers was second-most in the Big Ten to Michigan's 11.

Leading the way for Indiana will be Blake Pieroni, who is the No. 1 seed in the 200 freestyle and the No. 7 seed in the 100 freestyle. The Hoosiers showed their great depth in the NCAA seedings, as six different swimmers accounted for the team's seven top-10 seeds.

Additionally, Sam Lorentz, Jackson Miller and Oliver Patrouch will swim for the Hoosiers as relay-only participants.

Below is a complete list of invited Hoosiers in the events in which they qualified.

500 Freestyle
23. Max Irwin

200 IM
22. Ian Finnerty
26. Vini Lanza

50 Freestyle
12. Ali Khalafalla
Anze Tavcar

100 Butterfly
7. Vini Lanza
Max Irwin

200 Freestyle
1. Blake Pieroni
14. Anze Tavcar

100 Breaststroke
2. Ian Finnerty
7. Tanner Kurz
Cody Taylor

100 Backstroke
21. Bob Glover

200 Backstroke
22. Bob Glover

100 Freestyle
7. Blake Pieroni
10. Anze Tavcar
17. Ali Khalafalla

200 Breaststroke
3. Cody Taylor
17. Tanner Kurz
18. Ian Finnerty

200 Butterfly
13. Vini Lanza
Max Irwin

200 Freestyle Relay
400 Freestyle Relay
800 Freestyle Relay
200 Medley Relay
400 Medley Relay

Relay-Only Participants
Sam Lorentz
Jackson Miller
Oliver Patrouch