Hoosiers Eye One other Top Three End at NCAA Championships

ATLANTA – Indiana has positioned itself effectively Saturday (March 28) for one last surge up the leaderboard on the 2026 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.

IU entered the day at No. 3 within the crew standings with 254 factors. In the ultimate preliminary session Saturday morning, Indiana clinched six last swims as two extra Hoosiers scored factors inside the high 16. The males’s program will lock up its eighth consecutive high six nationwide end and fifth consecutive high 5 end Saturday evening.

Alpharetta, Georgia, native Owen McDonald has the possibility to finish his collegiate profession on a excessive Saturday evening in Atlanta. The senior earned the highest seed within the 200-yard IM last because the lone morning swimmer below 1:40. Previously within the occasion, McDonald completed third final season and second as a sophomore with Arizona State.

Freshmen Noah Cakir and Josh Bey each set private bests to hitch McDonald and make it three Hoosier finalists within the 200 IM. It’s Cakir’s first-career last, whereas Bey beforehand completed second within the 200-yard breaststroke and seventh within the 400 IM throughout his NCAA debut.

Sophomore Raekwon Noel went 1:39.55 within the 200-yard butterfly to earn his first-career particular person All-American honors. Senior Kai van Westering ended IU’s morning with a private greatest within the 200-yard backstroke, his 1:38.18 tying him because the second-fastest Hoosier all-time with Brendan Burns.

Indiana will even race the 400-yard freestyle relay, coming in because the No. 6 seed within the occasion.

RESULTS

100 BACKSTROKE

1. Owen McDonald – 1:39.48 (Championship Final Top Qualifier, First-Team All-American)

5. Noah Cakir – 1:40.94 (Championship Final, Personal Best, First-Team All-American)

6. Josh Bey – 1:41.17 (Championship Final, Personal Best, First-Team All-American)

19. Toby Barnett – 1:42.90

100 FREESTYLE

16. Mikkel Lee – 41.56 (Personal Best, Second-Team All-American)

18. Dylan Smiley – 41.63

 

200 BUTTERFLY

6. Raekwon Noel – 1:39.55 (Championship Final, First-Team All-American)

27. Aaron Shackell – 1:42.47 (Personal Best)

 

200 BACKSTROKE

7. Kai van Westering – 1:38.18 (Championship Final, Personal Best, First-Team All-American)

24. David Kovacs – 1:40.06

25. Miroslav Knedla – 1:40.14

 

PLATFORM

13. Maxwell Weinrich – 365.10 (Second-Team All-America)

 

HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS

Alexei Avakov – 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke*, 400 medley relay

Toby Barnett – 100 breaststroke*, 200 breaststroke

Josh Bey – 400 IM, 200 breaststroke, 200 IM

Noah Cakir – 200 breaststroke*, 200 IM

Travis Gulledge – 200 medley relay, 100 breaststroke*, 200 freestyle relay*

Miroslav Knedla – 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay*, 100 backstroke*, 400 medley relay

Mikkel Lee – 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay*, 100 freestyle*

Owen McDonald – 200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay, 200 IM

Raekwon Noel – 800 freestyle relay, 200 butterfly

Zalán Sárkány – 1,650 freestyle, 400 IM*, 500 freestyle

Aaron Shackell – 800 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle

Dylan Smiley – 800 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay*, 400 medley relay

Kai van Westering – 100 backstroke*, 200 backstroke

Maxwell Weinrich – Platform*

Luke Whitlock – 1,650 freestyle

 

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