No. 3/10 Indiana Visits No. 11/4 Michigan

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 3/10 Indiana swimming and diving will tackle a top-15 problem Friday (Jan. 7), visiting No. 11/4 Michigan for its first twin meet of the brand new 12 months.

The meet will start at midday ET. Fans can stream the motion through the B1G+ digital platform.

Friday’s motion will characteristic a number of eye-catching matchups, particularly on the ladies’s facet. Freshman Liberty Clark’s 1:41.27 200-yard freestyle ranks No. 3 within the Big Ten, proper behind Michigan’s Bella Sims (1:41.17) and simply in entrance of U-M’s Stephanie Balducinni (1:41.40). In the 100-yard backstroke, Miranda Grana (49.89) is predicted to face off towards Sims (49.17), the present Big Ten chief.

The final time Indiana visited Michigan, the ladies’s twin meet got here all the way down to the wire. IU returned to Bloomington victorious, successful the ultimate relay to complete with a 152-148 outcome.

MEET INFO
Friday, Jan. 9 • Noon ET
Canham Natatorium • Ann Arbor, Mich.
Opponent: No. 11/4 Michigan
Live Results (Swimming): Meet Mobile (App)
Live Results (Diving): divemeets.com
Live Stream: B1G+

OF NOTE…
HOOSIERS SET BIG TEN, NATION-LEADING TIMES
Five Hoosier males set the set the convention’s greatest occasions of the season within the fall. Junior Dylan Smiley owns the most effective time within the 100-yard freestyle (41.59), and sophomore Miroslav Knedla’s 1:39.69 within the 200 backstroke has set the early normal. Senior Owen McDonald leads the Big Ten in three occasions: the 100 again (44.13), 100 fly (44.68) and 200 IM (1:40.90), and classmate Zalán Sárkány at the moment holds the nation’s greatest occasions within the 500 free (4:09.57) and 1,650 free (14:23.85).

On the ladies’s facet, freshman Liberty Clark’s program file 46.83 100 freestyle leads the Big Ten. Junior Miranda Grana has the convention’s greatest 200 butterfly time with a 49.98.

INDIANA MEN TOP MIDSEASON TABLE, LADIES TAKE SECOND
Indiana swimming and diving broke 4 program information and gained 19 of 42 occasions at its midseason meet, the Ohio State Invitational, from Nov. 18-21.

Three Hoosiers earned Big Ten weekly awards for his or her performances in Columbus.

Junior Miranda Grana earned her third Big Ten Swimmer of the Week award after successful three occasions on the Ohio State Invitational, together with all three of her particular person occasions in addition to a sweep of the backstroke occasions. Grana swam a program file 49.98 within the 100-yard butterfly and a 49.89 within the 100-yard backstroke to change into the fifth girl to go sub-50 seconds in each occasions, becoming a member of Olympians Claire Curzan, Maggie MacNeil, Regan Smith and Gretchen Walsh. Her occasions within the 100 again, 100 fly and 200 again (1:49.06) all rank No. 3 nationally this season.

Senior Zalán Sárkány gained the Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Week honor after setting the nation’s quickest occasions within the 500-yard freestyle (4:09.57) and 1,650-yard freestyle (14:23.85). Sárkány narrowly missed program file in these occasions however achieved the varsity normal within the 400-yard IM (3:39.73), lastly beating the 11-year previous file after tying it final season in a third-place end.

Liberty Clark, incomes her fourth Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor, gained 5 occasions at her first midseason meet. In the 50-yard freestyle, Clark set a program file (21.54) in a second-place efficiency in addition to IU’s best-ever relay leadoff (21.61). In the 100-yard freestyle, the freshman broke this system file twice with an individual-event successful 46.87 earlier than trimming it to a 46.83 in a relay leadoff. Her 200-yard freestyle efficiency earned “Arena Swim of the Week” honors from SwimSwam.com, as Clark’s 1:41.27 made her the Sixteenth-fastest girl all-time and No. 6 American within the 17-18 age group.

 

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