BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Three members of the Indiana swimming and diving program – head coach
Ray Looze and freshmen
Josh Bey and
Liberty Clark – featured within the Big Ten postseason awards introduced by the convention workplace on Wednesday (April 1).
Big Ten Men’s Swim Coach of the Year: Ray Looze For the fifth consecutive season, IU head swimming coach
Ray Looze is the Big Ten Men’s Coach of the Year. With this season’s honor, Looze now owns the convention data for many males’s coach of the yr awards (10), girls’s coach of the yr awards (7) and complete coach of the yr awards (17).
Looze led the boys of IU swimming and diving to their fifth straight Big Ten title in addition to a fifth straight prime 5 crew end on the NCAA Championships. At the nationwide meet, Looze’s Hoosiers repeated because the No. 3 crew within the nation regardless of returning solely 4 particular person scorers and graduating three nationwide champions from final yr’s roster. Ten of Indiana’s 15 All-Americans this yr had been first-time particular person point-scorers.
Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Year: Josh Bey Big Ten Men’s Freshman of the Year: Josh Bey Josh Bey is the third athlete to win Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Year and Big Ten Men’s Freshman of the Year in the identical season (first since Felix Auböck, 2017). An IU athlete has earned the award in 5 consecutive seasons between Bey,
Owen McDonald (2025) and Brendan Burns (2022-24).
As a freshman, Bey set the No. 8 quickest 400 IM (3:34.90) and No. 10 quickest 200-yard breaststroke (1:48.79) in NCAA historical past.
Bey scored 41 factors in his NCAA Championships debut, main all freshmen and all Big Ten athletes whereas rating No. 5 within the nation total. He reached the rostrum in all three of his occasions, highlighted by a silver medal end within the 200-yard breaststroke. With that efficiency, Bey joined 2025 NCAA Champion
Jassen Yep as the one Hoosiers to interrupt the 1:49 barrier within the 200 breaststroke (1:48.79).
Bey’s first Big Ten Championships was highlighted by his efficiency within the 400 IM. His 3:34.90 broke the Big Ten, meet and program data within the occasion as he claimed his first particular person convention title. The freshman was IU’s second-highest scoring athlete, contributing 85 factors to the crew title tally.
Big Ten Women’s Freshman of the Year: Liberty Clark (Unanimous) After breaking seven program data, two Big Ten data, two Big Ten Championship data and two 17-18 National Age Group data throughout her freshman season,
Liberty Clark is the Big Ten Women’s Freshman of the Year by unanimous choice.
Clark contributed a team-high 45 factors to the Indiana girls’s program’s No. 7 crew end at her first NCAA Championships. That complete ranked No. 9 nationally, No. 3 amongst NCAA freshmen, No. 2 amongst Big Ten athletes and tops amongst Big Ten freshmen. The Chico, California, native reached the rostrum in all seven of her occasions, highlighted by a silver medal within the 200-yard freestyle and bronze within the 200-yard freestyle relay. During the meet, Clark grew to become the fifth lady to interrupt the 1:40 barrier within the 200 freestyle earlier than turning into the second to interrupt it twice, recording instances of 1:39.70 and 1:39.88.
At her first Big Ten Championships, Clark received three convention titles and 4 extra silver medals, and her 92 factors tied for essentially the most within the subject with Michigan junior Bella Sims. During that meet, Clark broke Big Ten meet data within the 100-yard freestyle (46.22) and 400-yard freestyle relay (3:07.72).
Over the twin meet season, Clark earned a convention file 9 Big Ten girls’s weekly awards, as she was twice named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week and received Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors seven instances. Clark broke her first program data within the 50-yard freestyle and 100 free at Indiana’s midseason meet, the Ohio State Invitational, in November – three months into her collegiate profession.
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