No. 6 Indiana Takes Talented Squad to NCAA Championships

Wednesday, March 18

Atlanta, Ga.

Indiana University

NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

No. 6 Indiana Takes Talented Squad to NCAA Championships

3/16/2026 6:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

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ATLANTA – Looking to sustain its momentum from a program-record fourth place national finish last season, No. 6-ranked Indiana travels to the 2026 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships this week in Atlanta.

The four-day meet will run Wednesday (March 18) through Saturday (March 21) inside the McCauley Aquatic Center. Final sessions will kick off at 6 p.m. ET each night, preceded by preliminary heats each morning starting at 10 a.m. ET. Fans can stream the competition via the ESPN+ digital platform.

FORMAT CHANGES
The 2026 championships include three major format changes.

First, the championships will not include 'B' finals. Athletes that place ninth through 16th from preliminaries will still earn second-team All-American status but will not have a second swim, retaining the placement they earned in the morning.

Second, relay and 1,650-yard freestyle timed finals will occur during the preliminary session. Only the fastest heats of those events will swim in the evening.

Third, the diving championship finals will split in two parts during the evening session. Each of the three final nights will follow this order: two swimming events, first three rounds of diving, two swimming events, final three rounds of diving, relay.

SENIORS' FINAL STAND
Mya DeWitt and Kristina Paegle represent a senior class that has delivered nothing but historic team success as part of program record finishes each previous year – seventh in 2023, seventh in 2024 and fourth in 2025.

Paegle has totaled 20 All-American honors during her career and can surpass former teammate Anna Peplowski (21) for most by a Hoosier woman this week. Paegle will swim the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and likely feature on multiple relays.

THE FUTURE IS HERE
Indiana had the highest-scoring freshman class at Big Ten Championships by far, and four Hoosier rookies will look to make their marks at the national meet.

Despite swimming in three meets for Indiana this season, Alex Shackell owns the program records in the 100-yard butterfly (49.95) and 200-yard butterfly (1:50.71). She comes into the week as the No. 3 seed in both events.

Liberty Clark has the No. 3 seed in the 200-yard freestyle as well as the No. 5 seed in the 100-yard freestyle and No. 9 seed in the 50-yard freestyle. Clark has set program records in the 50 free (21.47) and 100 free (46.22). Her best 200 free time (1:40.84) sits just 34 hundredths off Anna Peplowski's record that won the NCAA title last season.

Clark and Shackell were the top freshman scorers at Big Tens, and Grace Hoeper ranked fourth. Hoeper will join Clark in those freestyle events and will likely feature in all three freestyle relays. Kaylee Bishop will make her NCAA debut in the platform diving event.

JUNIOR JUICE
Indiana returns its second-highest scoring athlete from the 2025 championships in junior Miranda Grana, who earned a bronze medal in the 100-yard backstroke (49.62), fourth place in the 100-yard butterfly (50.01) and ninth in the 200-yard backstroke (1:48.73). Grana ranks top six in each event coming into the week.

Classmate Macky Hodges will look to build on her momentum from Big Ten Championships, where she posted personal best times in two of the three events she will swim this week. Hodges was the conference bronze medalist in the 200-yard backstroke, placed sixth in the 200-yard IM and ninth in the 400 IM (4:09.12).

POINTS ON THE BOARDS
Atlanta last hosted the NCAA Championships in 2022. That year, Tarrin Gilliland won her second consecutive NCAA platform championship. Indiana men and women have combined for seven platform titles in the last five seasons.

Four divers qualified for the national meet after the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships last week, led by juniors Ella Roselli and Lily Witte. Roselli will compete in all three events after reaching the A final in each at the conference meet.

HOOSIER RELAYS
Indiana qualified all five relays, four of which will swim the evening session. Clark, Shackell, Paegle and Hoeper made up Indiana's Big Ten-record breaking 400-yard freestyle relay that won the conference title with a time of 3:07.72. That performance gave them the No. 3 seed in what will be the final race of this week's championships.

MEET INFO
Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21 • 10 a.m. ET (prelims), 6 p.m. (finals)
McAuley Aquatic Center • Atlanta, Ga.
Live Results (Swimming): https://bit.ly/4rBP1N7/Meet Mobile (App)
Live Results (Diving): divemeets.com
Live Stream: ESPN+

SCHEDULED EVENTS (Finals)
Wednesday (6 p.m. ET) – 1,650 freestyle, 200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay
Thursday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 freestyle relay, 1-meter springboard
Friday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 500 freestyle, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 3-meter springboard
Saturday (6 p.m. ET) – 200 IM, 100 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 400 freestyle relay, platform

INDIANA SWIMMING AND DIVING QUALIFIERS
2026 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Kaylee Bishop – platform
Mary Kate Cavanaugh – platform
Liberty Clark – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Mya DeWitt – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
Miranda Grana – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly
Macky Hodges – 200 backstroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Grace Hoeper – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Jonette Laegreid – Relay alternate
Kristina Paegle – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Ella Roselli – 1-meter, 3-meter, platform
Alex Shackell – 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly
Reese Tiltmann – 200 breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Lily Witte – 1-meter, 3-meter
200 freestyle relay
400 freestyle relay
800 freestyle relay
200 medley relay
400 freestyle relay

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