Three Greyhounds Compete at Swimming World Championships

SINGAPORE – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships kicked off this month in Singapore, with the UIndy swimming and diving program effectively represented. Incoming-junior Kirabo Namutebi and up to date graduates Cedric Buessing (’25) and Likhith “Liki” Prema (’23) are competing among the many world’s quickest swimmers on the elite meet.

Prema swam within the 50 and 100 breaststroke earlier this week, inserting fiftieth total within the 50 and fortieth within the 100. Namutebi (50 fly, 50 free) and Buessing (400 IM), in the meantime, take the pool this weekend. For an entire schedule of occasions, go to the occasion’s homepage.

“A big portion of our students come to us with goals of representing their home countries at international meets,” stated UIndy Head Coach Brent Noble, “and those goals are important to us. We value our presence at meets like Worlds, the Olympics, World University Games, and more regional international meets like Pan-Am Games and European Championships. We hope to grow that presence as we move toward 2028.”

The solely energetic Greyhound of the trio, Namutebi is the quickest lady to ever don a Greyhound swim cap. The Uganda native posted a time of twenty-two.08 within the 50 free (SCY) on the 2024 NCAA DII Championships to each win the nationwide title and set a Division II file. She has racked up 12 All-America nods in her two seasons as a Hound, including nationwide championships in each the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay final March.

One of the best student-athletes in UIndy historical past, Buessing entered the meet with the Nineteenth-fastest time within the 400 IM. The German phenom hit his mark of 4:11.52 on the Olympics Games in Paris final summer season to turn out to be the first-ever Division II athlete to qualify for an Olympic remaining. A two-time nationwide champion, Buessing wrapped up his Greyhound profession this previous spring by profitable an unprecedented fourth consecutive GLVC Men’s Swimmer of the Year honor. He left UIndy as a 19-time All-American and the proprietor of eight college information.

Prema graduated in 2023 after filling UIndy’s prime breaststroker function. He was a multi-time All-American in each the 100 and 200 breast, highlighted by a fourth-place end within the 100 on the 2022 NCAA DII Championships. He additionally helped to 200 medley relay workforce to a runner-up end at Nationals in ’23. A 3-time GLVC occasion champ, the Bengaluru, India native at the moment ranks third within the college’s 200 breast prime 10 and fourth within the 100 breast.