Indiana Males End Third at NCAA Championships

ATLANTA – The males of Indiana earned their second consecutive third place nationwide end on the 2026 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday (March 28) contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.

The nationwide efficiency is Indiana eighth consecutive prime six nationwide end and fifth consecutive prime 5 end. The program recorded 351 factors, rating solely behind NCAA Champion Texas (445.5 factors), runner-up Florida (416) and forward of Arizona State (328).

IU repeated because the No. 3 workforce within the nation regardless of returning solely 4 particular person scorers and graduating three nationwide champions. Ten of Indiana’s 15 All-Americans this 12 months have been first-time particular person point-scorers.

The Hoosiers set Big Ten and program data in 4 occasions. Senior Zalán Sárkány opened the week with an NCAA report 1,000-yard freestyle, going 8:33.10 in his mile break up. His 14:12.20 in that 1,650-yard freestyle reset his personal Big Ten and program data within the occasion. Two days later, Sárkány set one other convention report within the 500 free together with his 4:07.95. Senior Owen McDonald’s second-place 200 IM efficiency on Saturday got here with one other Big Ten report, his time a 1:38.57.

This season, Indiana gained its thirty second and fifth consecutive Big Ten Championship. In that meet, the Hoosiers gained 10 Big Ten Championships, earned 27 medals, swept three occasions and totaled 1,544.5 factors to win by a margin of 336.5 factors over the sphere. IU has gained eight of the final 10 males’s swim and dive titles.

RESULTS

200 IM

2. Owen McDonald – 1:38.56 (NCAA Silver, Big Ten Record, Program Record, Personal Best, First-Team All-American)

7. Josh Bey – 1:41.98 (First-Team All-American)

5. Noah Cakir – 1:42.23 (First-Team All-American)

19. Toby Barnett – 1:42.90

100 FREESTYLE

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

18. Dylan Smiley – 41.63

 

200 BUTTERFLY

6. Raekwon Noel – 1:39.54 (First-Team All-America)

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

 

200 BACKSTROKE

4. Kai van Westering – 1:38.29 (First-Team All-America)

24. David Kovacs – 1:40.06

25. Miroslav Knedla – 1:40.14

 

PLATFORM

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

 

400 FREESTYLE RELAY

7. Owen McDonald, Dylan Smiley, Mikkel Lee, Miroslav Knedla – 2:46.26 (First-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, 400 freestyle relay

Mikkel Lee – 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay*, 100 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay

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

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, 400 freestyle relay

Kai van Westering – 100 backstroke*, 200 backstroke

Maxwell Weinrich – Platform*

Luke Whitlock – 1,650 freestyle

 

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