Hoosiers Win 5 Big Ten Weekly Awards

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming and diving captured 5 of the six Big Ten weekly awards accessible from the opening week of the season. The convention workplace introduced its first cycle of awards on Wednesday (Oct. 1).

IU swept the diver of the week and freshman of the week honors, whereas additionally sweeping all three honors on the ladies’s aspect, after a break up outcome with Florida on the weekend. Four Hoosiers earned their first-career weekly awards.

Junior Miranda Grana captured her second-career Big Ten weekly award, profitable the 100-yard backstroke (52.09) and 100-yard butterfly (53.23) on high of a second-place outcome within the 200 IM (2:00.94). Grana additionally posted the perfect butterfly break up within the 200 medley relay, going 23.62.

Sophomore Joshua Sollenberger swept the diving occasions to win Big Ten Men’s Diver of the Week. Sollenberger received the 1-meter springboard by 1.57 factors with a rating of 289.65, simply forward of Florida’s Jesus Gonzalez’s 288.08. He then dominated the 3-meter board by 33 factors with a rating of 343.95.

Freshman Kaylee Bishop, the Big Ten Women’s Diver of the Week, additionally received on 1-meter with a 255.53, outscoring Florida’s Maria Garcia’s 254.78. Bishop additionally completed fifth on 3-meter.

Freshman Noah Cakir swept the breaststroke occasions to win Big Ten Men’s Freshman of the Week. Cakir led an Indiana 1-2-3-4 end within the 100-yard breaststroke (53.89) and a 1-2-3 efficiency within the 200-yard breaststroke (1:59.91).

Classmate Liberty Clark had fairly the debut, profitable the 50-yard freestyle (22.57) and 100-yard freestyle (48.29) whereas additionally dropping main splits on the relays. Clark got here from behind to out-touch teammate, reigning Big Ten Champion and program document holder Kristina Paegle within the 50 free earlier than profitable the 100 free by 1.91 seconds with a private greatest time. The freshman additionally dropped the lone sub-49-second break up within the 400 free relay and the one sub-22-second break up within the 200 medley relay.

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