Indiana Finds Podium Twice Wednesday Night

Wednesday, March 27

Indianapolis

6 p.m.

Indiana University

NCAA Championships - Finals

3/27/2024 9:03:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

Results (PDF)

INDIANAPOLIS – A pair of Indiana relays reached the podium during the opening night of the 2024 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Wednesday (March 27) inside the IU Natatorium.

Indiana sits fourth in the team standings with 52 points after its relay both placed sixth. Both quartets dropped time from their marks at Big Ten Championships, where they swept the opening night relays. IU placed top-8 in both opening night relays for the second-straight season – prior to 2023, the Hoosiers had not reached the podium in both events since 2018.

"A solid start for the Hoosiers here on day one," IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. "We'll take two top-eight relays any day of the week. It wasn't perfect. If we can get to a place where we can string together all four splits, we will be able to move up from where we were today in terms of the relay. Tomorrow will be really important for us to have four really good split since the 200 freestyle relay is our lowest seeded.

"But, overall, a solid start for the Hoosiers. We put ourselves on the board, and we'll move on from here."

Indiana's 200-yard medley relay dropped seven hundredths of a second off its season best to post the second-best time in program history – a 1:22.10 – and finish No. 6 in the nation.

Senior Brendan Burns led off in 20.79, followed by junior Finn Brooks' 23.00 in the 50-yard breaststroke split. Senior Tomer Frankel posted the fourth-best 50-yard butterfly split in 19.56, and freshman Mikkel Lee anchored the Hoosiers in 18.75.

Junior Rafael Miroslaw dropped 1.13 seconds off his 200-yard freestyle personal best to lead off IU's sixth-place 800-yard freestyle relay and moved into third in program history in the 200. Indiana finished in 6:08.26, 2.6 seconds faster than its previous season-best set at Big Tens. That time ranks No. 4 in program history.

Burns dropped 1.25 from the conference meet, anchoring IU in 1:32.00. Frankel dropped 13 hundredths to go 1:32.19, and junior Kai van Westering went 1:33.31.

RESULTS
200 MEDLEY RELAY
6. Brendan Burns, Finn Brooks, Tomer Frankel, Mikkel Lee – 1:22.10 (All-America)

800 FREESTYLE RELAY
6. Rafael Miroslaw, Tomer Frankel, Kai van Westering, Brendan Burns – 6:08.26 (All-America)

HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Finn Brooks (200 medley relay)
Brendan Burns (200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay)
Tomer Frankel (200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay)
Mikkel Lee (200 medley relay)
Rafael Miroslaw (800 freestyle relay)
Kai van Westering (800 freestyle relay)

* - Denotes second-team All-America

UP NEXT
The 2024 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships resume Thursday for day two, the first full day of action. Athletes will compete in the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, 1-meter dive and 200 freestyle relay, with preliminaries beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Finals are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

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