JAGUARS OPEN SEASON WITH STRONG PERFORMANCES AT THE NAT

INDIANAPOLIS – IU Indianapolis made a press release on the primary day of its house meet in opposition to Cleveland State, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, gathering a number of occasion wins in each swimming and diving.
 
The Jaguars opened the night time with a victory within the girls’s 200 medley relay, as Addy Hirsbrunner, Victoria Surdyka, Dani Stemper and Luca McGee mixed for a successful time of 1:42.74. The males adopted swimsuit, with Grayson Tidwell, Logan Kelly, Isaac Wilson and Keaton Barwick racing to first in 1:27.60. IU Indy additionally claimed third within the occasion with one other robust relay squad.
 
Distance swimmers added depth with prime finishes within the 500 free. Samantha Lee positioned second within the girls’s race (5:07.99), whereas Michael Esdon led the Jaguar males with a third-place end in 4:34.09, simply forward of teammates Youssef Magdy (4:35.46) and Nathan Rariden (4:35.60).
 
IU Indy then swept the highest three spots within the girls’s 200 IM, as Hirsbrunner (2:07.28), Surdyka (2:09.17), and Stemper (2:10.00) went 1-2-3. On the lads’s aspect, Zach Drotar touched first in 1:49.87 adopted by Noah Van Zuidam (1:51.28).
 
In the sprints, Luca McGee positioned second within the girls’s 50 free (23.46), and IU Indy’s males dominated with Barwick (20.58), Shane Tebeest (20.70), and Kelly (20.76) ending 2-3-4.
 
The Jaguars have been equally dominate on the boards. Sebastian Otero claimed the lads’s 1-meter title with a rating of 323.85, main a top-three sweep with Evan Butcher (291.35) and Blake Vanderjeugdt (288.10). On the ladies’s aspect, Alaina Heyde gained the 3-meter occasion (250.65), with freshmen Arianna Pagel (215.35) and Lindi Jenkins (205.20) additionally ending within the prime six.
 
IU Indianapolis returns to motion Saturday on the IU Natatorium to shut out the two-day meet at 10:00 AM.