Ryan Promoted to Affiliate Head Coach

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming head coach Ray Looze has promoted Luke Ryan to affiliate head coach forward of Ryan’s seventh season with this system. In addition, Ryan retains his director of recruiting title.

Ryan has stood on the forefront of Indiana’s distance success, most lately highlighted by Big Ten medal sweeps in each the 500-yard freestyle and the 1,650-yard freestyle, in addition to Zalán Sárkány’s NCAA file within the 1,000-yard freestyle and 2025 NCAA title within the 1,650 free.

Ryan additionally guided Josh Bey as he dropped 7.71 seconds within the 400-yard IM throughout his freshman season. The Big Ten Swimmer of the Year and Freshman of the Year, Bey gained the convention gold and set the Big Ten file with a 3:34.90, rating him No. 8 all-time in addition to the second-fastest freshman ever.

Since Ryan joined Looze’s employees, Indiana has gained six Big Ten titles, together with 5 consecutive on the lads’s facet. The Hoosier males have earned 5 consecutive prime 5 finishes on the NCAA Championships, and the ladies’s program earned its best-ever nationwide efficiency in 2025, inserting fourth.

The Hoosier teaching employees has produced double-digit Olympic swimmers in consecutive cycles. Eleven swimmers with ties to this system participated on the Paris Games, together with 5 members of the U.S. Olympic Team in addition to athletes representing Egypt, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and, for the primary time in class historical past, Singapore and Lithuania. Ryan served as an assistant coach for the Tunisian nationwide group on the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships and at present serves the same for the Czechia’s nationwide group.


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