9 Indiana Swimmers, All 5 Relays Qualify for NCAA Championships

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 6-ranked Indiana swimming and diving will ship 9 swimmers and all 5 relays to the 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships following the NCAA’s announcement of alternatives to the nationwide meet on Wednesday (March 4).

The four-day meet will run March 18-21 contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. Indiana can safe further qualifiers through the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, March 9/11 in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

IU could have a consultant in 16 of the 19 swimming occasions in addition to a number of swimmers in eight of the 14 particular person occasions. Three Hoosiers are certified in every of the next occasions: the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke.

Including relays, Hoosiers personal 12 high 10 seeds and 7 high 5 seeds of their occasions. Freshman Alex Shackell is the No. 3 seed in each the 100-yard butterfly (49.95) and 200-yard butterfly (1:50.71) after medaling and setting this system file in each occasions on the Big Ten Championships.

Classmate Liberty Clark can also be projected to have a robust NCAA debut because the No. 3 seed within the 200-yard freestyle (1:40.84), No. 5 seed within the 100 free (46.22) and No. 9 seed within the 50 free (21.47). Clark is this system file holder within the 50 and 100 and will get nearer to the 200 faculty file with each swim. Grace Hoeper is the third freshman on the NCAA roster and can compete in the identical occasions as Clark.

Junior Miranda Grana ranks No. 4 within the 200-yard backstroke (1:49.06), No. 5 within the 100-yard butterfly (49.98) and No. 6 within the 100-yard backstroke (49.89). Last season, Grana completed third within the 100 again, fourth within the 100 fly and ninth within the 200 again. This season, she has already gone quicker within the 100 fly and 100 again than her NCAA occasions final March.

Four of Indiana’s relays mission to achieve the rostrum (high eight). IU’s Big Ten record-breaking 400-yard freestyle relay ranks No. 3 nationally after the quartet of Shackell, Clark, senior Kristina Paegle and Hoeper received the convention title in 3:07.72.

INDIANA WOMEN’S SWIMMING QUALIFIERS
2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Liberty Clark – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Mya DeWitt – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
Miranda Grana – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly
Macky Hodges – 200 backstroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Grace Hoeper – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Jonette Laegreid – Relay alternate
Kristina Paegle – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Alex Shackell – 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly
Reese Tiltmann – 200 breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
200 freestyle relay
400 freestyle relay
800 freestyle relay
200 medley relay
400 freestyle relay

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