Indiana Women Finish Seventh at NCAA Championships

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March 21, 2026
 
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Indiana Women Finish Seventh at NCAA Championships
 
ATLANTA – Indiana girls’s swimming and diving athletes broke 9 program information and earned 34 All-American awards this week to complete seventh on the 2026 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, which concluded Saturday (March 21) contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
 
IU recorded 258 factors, this system’s second-best whole, solely behind the 312 factors scored in a faculty file fourth place efficiency final season. Despite dropping 5 All-Americans from that fourth place workforce, Indiana retooled with freshman and switch expertise to earn its fourth prime seven nationwide end in 4 years.
 
For the second consecutive season, Indiana positioned prime 10 in all 5 relays. The Hoosiers set program information in 4 of the 5 occasions, together with all three freestyle relays, and broke the Big Ten file within the 400 freestyle relay for the third time this season (3:07.51). Freshman Alex Shackell appeared on all 5 relays.
 
Shackell and freshman classmate Liberty Clark mixed for 78 factors and reached the rostrum in all 5 of their mixed particular person races. Of Indiana’s 9 program information, all 9 had the title Clark and/or Shackell connected to it.
 
Over the week, Clark lowered her program information within the 50-yard freestyle (21.25) and 100-yard freestyle (46.11) and claimed the college customary within the 200-yard freestyle (1:39.70), whereas changing into considered one of two girls all-time to interrupt the 1:40 barrier twice within the 200 free. Her greatest occasions within the 50 free and 200 free set 17-18 National Age Group information.
 
Shackell medaled in every of her two particular person occasions, reducing her program information within the 100-yard butterfly (49.82) and 200-yard butterfly (1:50.40). Her 100 fly efficiency earned a bronze medal and set the Big Ten file within the occasion, beating Maggie MacNeil’s five-year previous mark. She completed second within the 200 fly by 14 hundredths however was the lone freshman within the championship closing.
 
Senior Kristina Paegle closes her profession a 24-time All-American, setting this system file for top-16 NCAA finishes. Formerly this system file holder within the 50 free, the Bloomington native set the muse for IU’s dash and relay tradition that discovered a lot success this week. Paegle was the lone non-freshman on Indiana’s program-record breaking 200, 400 and 800-yard freestyle relays – helped by Clark, Shackell and Grace Hoeper on every.
 
Junior Miranda Grana earned All-American honors in every of her particular person occasions, reaching the rostrum within the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard backstroke (eighth in each). On the diving boards, junior Ella Roselli earned private greatest NCAA finishes on the 1-meter springboard (twelfth) and platform (ninth).
 
PROGRAM RECORDS (Event)
 

Event	Time	Athlete(s)	Notes
50 Freestyle	21.25	Liberty Clark	17-18 NAG Record
100 Freestyle	46.11	Liberty Clark	#10 All-Time
200 Freestyle	1:39.70	Liberty Clark	Big Ten Record 17-18 NAG Record No. 3 All-Time
100 Butterfly	49.82	Alex Shackell	Big Ten Record
200 Butterfly	1:50.40	Alex Shackell
200 Freestyle Relay	1:25.67	Clark, Paegle, Hoeper, Shackell
400 Freestyle Relay	3:07.51	Clark, Shackell, Hoeper, Paegle	Big Ten Record
800 Freestyle Relay	6:48.85	Clark, Shackell, Hodges, Hoeper
400 Medley Relay	3:25.17	Grana, Laegreid, Shackell, Clark

RESULTS
200 IM
18. Reese Tiltmann – 1:56.74
 

100 FREESTYLE
4. Liberty Clark – 46.11 (Program Record, Personal Best, First-Team All-America)
27. Kristina Paegle – 48.00
36. Grace Hoeper – 48.41
 
200 BUTTERFLY
2. Alex Shackell – 1:50.40 (NCAA Silver, Program Record, First-Team All-America)
 
200 BACKSTROKE
8. Miranda Grana – 1:50.71 (First-Team All-America)
15. Mya DeWitt – 1:51.96 (Personal Best, Second-Team All-America)
 
PLATFORM
9. Ella Roselli – 291.70 (Second-Team All-America)
t25. Mary Kate Cavanaugh – 240.80
29. Kaylee Bishop – 239.35
 
400 FREESTYLE RELAY
5. Liberty Clark, Alex Shackell, Grace Hoeper, Kristina Paegle – 3:07.51 (Big Ten Record, Program Record, First-Team All-America)
 
HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Liberty Clark – 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 100 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay
Mya DeWitt – 100 backstroke*, 200 backstroke*
Miranda Grana – 200 medley relay*, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke*, 400 medley relay, 200 backstroke
Macky Hodges – 800 freestyle relay
Grace Hoeper – 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay
Jonette Laegreid – 200 medley relay*, 400 medley relay
Kristina Paegle – 200 medley relay*, 200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay
Ella Roselli – 1-meter springboard*, platform*
Alex Shackell – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle relay
Reese Tiltmann – 400 IM*
* – Denotes second-team honoree
 

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