Peplowski, Grana Lead Hoosiers to Friday Finals

Friday, March 21

Federal Way, Wash.

1 p.m.

Indiana University

NCAA Championships - Prelims

Peplowski, Grana Lead Hoosiers to Friday Finals

3/21/2025 6:18:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Results (PDF)

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – No. 7-ranked Indiana set itself up for a busy Friday (March 21) night at the 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center.

IU will have seven finalists and the No. 5-ranked 400-yard medley relay during the third night of national competition.

Senior Anna Peplowski posted a casual 1:42.48 in the 200-yard freestyle Friday morning as she hunts a fourth-career NCAA in her best event. Her time placed second, but the senior has been faster on four occasions this season. Peplowski is also the only swimmer in this event to go under 1:41 this season and on Wednesday posted a 1:40.97 split during the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Friday night's race will be a rematch of the Big Ten Championship final, with Michigan's Stephanie Balduccini (1:41.21) in lane four and USC's Minna Abraham (1:42.51) in three.

Sophomore Miranda Grana's success during a busy morning will give way to an even busier night. Taking on the 100-yard butterfly, 100-yard backstroke double, Grana qualified for the championship final in both with a pair of personal best times. Grana's 50.23 in the 100-yard backstroke tied IU's program record in the event with senior teammate Kacey McKenna as she tied for sixth in perhaps the fastest event of the meet. Grana is also expected to swim the 400 medley relay.

Three Hoosier backstrokers advanced to finals, as junior Mya DeWitt and McKenna reached the consolation heat all under 51 seconds. DeWitt's first sub-51-second 100 back also earned her first individual All-America honors after contributing to IU's fifth-place 200-yard freestyle relay Thursday night. No Hoosier had ever broken the 51-second barrier prior to McKenna's 50.49 at the 2024 Big Ten Championships – now McKenna, Grana and DeWitt own the school's top three times ahead of 2014's NCAA 200 back champion Brooklyn Snodgrass.

On the 3-meter springboard, senior Skyler Liu and sophomore Lily Witte qualified for finals. A two-time Big Ten Champion in the event, Liu qualified seventh from the early afternoon with a score of 336.35. Witte earned her first-career All-America honors, sneaking into the consolation final with a 15th-place 313.25.

RESULTS
100 BUTTERFLY
5. Miranda Grana – 50.79 (Championship Final, All-America, Career Best)
30. Ava Whitaker – 52.10 (Career Best)

400 IM
22. Reese Tiltmann – 4:08.74

200 FREESTYLE
2. Anna Peplowski – 1:42.48 (Championship Final, All-America)

100 BREASTSTROKE
36. Brearna Crawford – 58.87

100 BACKSTROKE
T6. Miranda Grana – 50.23 (Championship Final, All-America, Program Record, Career Best)
12. Mya DeWitt – 50.78 (Consolation Final, Second-team All-America, Career Best)
14. Kacey McKenna – 50.94 (Consolation Final, Second-team All-America)

3-METER DIVING
7. Skyler Liu – 336.35 (Championship Final, All-America)
15. Lily Witte – 313.25 (Consolation Final, Second-team All-America)
24. Ella Roselli – 292.50

HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Brearna Crawford – 200 medley relay*
Mya DeWitt – 200 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke*
Ching Hwee Gan – 500 freestyle
Miranda Grana – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke
Skyler Liu – 3-meter
Kacey McKenna – 200 medley relay*, 200 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke*
Kristina Paegle – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle*, 200 freestyle relay
Anna Peplowski – 800 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle
Ella Roselli – 1-meter*
Reese Tiltmann – 800 freestyle
Lily Witte – 3-meter*
* - Denotes second-team honoree

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Coming into the night in fifth place on the team leaderboard, Indiana will see if it can't move further up the ranking during a busy Friday night. The evening session is slated to begin at 9 p.m. ET.

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