Indiana University Athletics
IU Swimmers Score Big at Phillips 66 National Championships
7/31/2022 10:53:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Competing as Indiana Swim Club, swimmers with ties to the IU swimming and diving program totaled the highest women's, second-highest men's and highest combined point totals at the Phillips 66 National Championships this week in Irvine, California.
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Hoosiers combined for five medals at the meet, including three individual national championships.
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IU continued its tradition of breaststroke success as Mackenzie Looze and Josh Matheny each won national titles in the stroke. Looze captured the women's 200-meter title Wednesday night, while Matheny won in the men's 100-meter event on Friday. Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Indiana swimmers have captured a world 200-meter title (Lilly King), a Big Ten 200-yard title (Brearna Crawford) and now two national championships. Noelle Peplowski finished fourth in the 200-meter event Wednesday as well.
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Looze slashed over two seconds from her seed time to win the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:25.35. For Looze, this week was the continuation of a successful summer. In April, she reached the A final in all four races swam at the Phillips 66 International team trials and earned top-five finishes in the 200 IM (2:13.28) and 400 IM (4:44.95). Earlier this month, Looze was selected to USA Swimming's 2022 Duel in the Pool roster.
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A junior national champion in the event 2018, Matheny's 100-meter victory was also a personal best at 59.44 after breaking a minute for the first time in his career during the prelim (59.68). Earlier this summer, Matheny was a top-10 finisher in all three breaststroke distances at trials. In his 2021-22 freshman season, he was a medalist in four of five events swam at the Big Ten Championships and helped IU to a silver medal in the 400-yard medley relay at the national meet in March.
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Former IU swimmer Zach Apple tied for a national title in the opening night on Tuesday, going 48.44 to touch simultaneously with Virginia's Matt King. Later that evening, current IU freestyler Mariah Denigan won silver in the 800-meter freestyle, going 8:31.12 and finishing second only to Olympian Katie Ledecky. Denigan dropped 11 seconds from her time to capture the runner-up placement.
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Tuesday's silver was the first of two for Denigan, as she bookended her meet with another on Saturday night in the 1500-meter event as well (16:12.44). In between, Denigan also placed eighth in the 400 IM (4:45.54) and sixth in the 400 freestyle (4:12.53).
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Scoring 36 points, Anna Peplowski contributed to the team finish with three A final swims. The younger Peplowski placed seventh in the 100-meter backstroke (1:00.94), 200-meter backstroke (2:11.56) and 200-meter freestyle (2:00.70).
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Denigan, Anna Peplowski and Matheny are all coming off their freshman seasons at IU.
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Hoosiers combined for five medals at the meet, including three individual national championships.
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IU continued its tradition of breaststroke success as Mackenzie Looze and Josh Matheny each won national titles in the stroke. Looze captured the women's 200-meter title Wednesday night, while Matheny won in the men's 100-meter event on Friday. Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Indiana swimmers have captured a world 200-meter title (Lilly King), a Big Ten 200-yard title (Brearna Crawford) and now two national championships. Noelle Peplowski finished fourth in the 200-meter event Wednesday as well.
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Looze slashed over two seconds from her seed time to win the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:25.35. For Looze, this week was the continuation of a successful summer. In April, she reached the A final in all four races swam at the Phillips 66 International team trials and earned top-five finishes in the 200 IM (2:13.28) and 400 IM (4:44.95). Earlier this month, Looze was selected to USA Swimming's 2022 Duel in the Pool roster.
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A junior national champion in the event 2018, Matheny's 100-meter victory was also a personal best at 59.44 after breaking a minute for the first time in his career during the prelim (59.68). Earlier this summer, Matheny was a top-10 finisher in all three breaststroke distances at trials. In his 2021-22 freshman season, he was a medalist in four of five events swam at the Big Ten Championships and helped IU to a silver medal in the 400-yard medley relay at the national meet in March.
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Former IU swimmer Zach Apple tied for a national title in the opening night on Tuesday, going 48.44 to touch simultaneously with Virginia's Matt King. Later that evening, current IU freestyler Mariah Denigan won silver in the 800-meter freestyle, going 8:31.12 and finishing second only to Olympian Katie Ledecky. Denigan dropped 11 seconds from her time to capture the runner-up placement.
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Tuesday's silver was the first of two for Denigan, as she bookended her meet with another on Saturday night in the 1500-meter event as well (16:12.44). In between, Denigan also placed eighth in the 400 IM (4:45.54) and sixth in the 400 freestyle (4:12.53).
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Scoring 36 points, Anna Peplowski contributed to the team finish with three A final swims. The younger Peplowski placed seventh in the 100-meter backstroke (1:00.94), 200-meter backstroke (2:11.56) and 200-meter freestyle (2:00.70).
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Denigan, Anna Peplowski and Matheny are all coming off their freshman seasons at IU.
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@IndianaSwimDive
Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men's and women's swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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