Austin’s Logan Kelly earns All-America honors at NCAA swimming championships – Publish Bulletin

ATLANTA — Logan Kelly closed a stellar faculty swimming profession by making some historical past for his program.

Kelly, an Austin native, turned the primary Indiana University-Indianapolis swimmer to earn factors on the NCAA Division I nationwide meet, on March 26 on the Georgia Tech University Aquatic Center.

Kelly earned Second Team All-America honors after ending in eleventh out of 38 swimmers with a lifetime finest time of 51.24 seconds within the 100 breaststroke, besting his seed-time of 51.56 seconds. He additionally completed 18th within the 200 breaststroke in a time of 1:52.41, simply lower than a second (98-hundredths of a second) outdoors of the highest 10.

He turned simply the second IU Indianapolis males’s swimming and diving athlete to attain factors on the NCAA Championships, with the primary factors being recording in 2019 from diver Krisztian Somhegyi.

Kelly helped IU Indy go 16-0 in twin meets this season, together with a 6-0 mark in Horizon League twin meets.

IU Indy positioned fortieth out of 71 groups on the nationwide meet, with six factors. The University of Minnesota positioned thirty first, with 22 factors. Texas gained the crew championship with 445.5 factors, adopted by Florida (416) in second place and Indiana (351) in third.

Kelly’s All-America honor caps a storied profession, during which he certified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials and have become the primary IU Indy male swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Division I nationwide championships, when he certified within the 200 breaststroke in 2023. He was named the 2023 Horizon League Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Year and gained two Horizon League meet championships in 2024.

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