Twenty-Five Hoosiers Advance to NCAA Championships

Twenty-Five Hoosiers Advance to NCAA Championships

3/11/2023 8:41:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Twenty-five Indiana swimming and diving student-athletes have qualified for the 2023 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships following the conclusion of the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships on Saturday (March 11).

The women's championships will take place from March 15-18 at Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Big Ten Champion IU men's team will compete a week later, March 22-25, inside the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Seventeen swimmers, eight women and nine men, qualified individually for Indiana. Both Hoosier teams will also participate in all five relay events.

As zone diving concluded on Saturday, eight IU divers qualified for the national meet. A year ago, IU's six qualified divers totaled 148 points at the NCAA Championships, the most from any combined men's and women's program. All four men's diver qualified in each of the three diving events, while four women totaled eight national bids.

Eight IU student-athletes qualified in breaststroke events, five of those on the men's side. All five men will contest the 100-yard breaststroke on Friday, March 24, as senior Van Mathias and sophomore Josh Matheny own the No. 11 and No. 13 seeds, respectively, in the event. Senior Noelle Peplowski is the No. 6-seeded athlete in the women's 200 breast and one of three IU women in the event.

Indiana has two previous NCAA Champions returning to the national meet. Senior Brendan Burns will look to defend his 200-yard butterfly title on the final day of the men's competition. Redshirt senior Andrew Capobianco will try for his third NCAA diving title in what will be his final NCAA Championships.

WOMEN'S QUALIFIERS
Megan Carter – 1-Meter
Brearna Crawford – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Mariah Denigan – 500 Freestyle, 1,650 Freestyle, 400 IM
Anne Fowler – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Ching Hwee Gan – 500 Freestyle, 1,650 Freestyle, 400 IM
Alaina Heyde – 1-Meter
Skyler Liu – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Mackenzie Looze – 200 Breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Kristina Paegle – 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle
Anna Peplowski – 200 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 200 Backstroke
Noelle Peplowski – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 200 IM
Ashley Turak – 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle
Relays: 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay

MEN'S QUALIFIERS
Luke Barr – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 200 IM
Finn Brooks – 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly
Brendan Burns – 100 Backstroke, 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly
Andrew Capobianco – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Tomer Frankel – 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly
Quinn Henninger – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Josh Matheny – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Van Mathias – 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke
Rafael Miroslaw – 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle
Maxwell Reich – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Carson Tyler – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Maxwell Weinrich – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform
Jassen Yep – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Relays: 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay

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