Hoosiers Signify in Big Ten Watchrecord

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Four members of the Indiana swimming and diving group featured within the Big Ten Players to Watch record, introduced by the convention workplace on Tuesday (Sept. 23).

Senior Owen McDonald, juniors Miranda Grana and Ella Roselli and freshman Josh Hedberg represented within the preseason watchlist forward of the 2025-26 season.

The reigning Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, McDonald was the convention’s top-scoring swimmer on the 2025 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships because the group completed third. McDonald earned podium finishes in all three occasions, together with a third-place efficiency within the 200 IM. McDonald additionally swept his occasions on the Big Ten Championships.

Grana is the top-scoring returner for a ladies’s group that completed a program-record fourth on the 2025 NCAA Championships. She positioned third within the 100-yard backstroke, fourth within the 100-yard butterfly – setting program data in each occasions – in addition to ninth within the 200-yard backstroke. Grana additionally captured Big Ten titles within the 100 fly and 400 medley relay.

Roselli additionally contributed essential factors to the ladies’s historic nationwide end, scoring in each the 1-meter springboard and platform diving occasions. At Big Tens, Roselli medaled for the second consecutive season on 1-meter and scored on 3-meter and platform.

Hedberg joins the highest diving program within the nation after a adorned junior profession. The freshman has already competed for the senior nationwide group at three World Aquatics Championships in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Hedberg is a 10-time junior nationwide champion, six-time senior nationwide champion and two-time world junior champion.

The Hoosiers kick off the 2025-26 season Friday (Sept. 26) morning, internet hosting Florida contained in the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.

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