WESTMONT, Ill. – No. 2/5 opened the College Swimming League period with a press release efficiency, outscoring No. 12/8 Louisville, No. 8/6 Michigan and No. 13/11 Ohio State within the event’s inaugural match Thursday (Sept. 24) evening contained in the FMC Natatorium.
The Hoosier women and men mixed to win 16 of 30 occasions and totaled 575.5 factors, 124 factors higher than second-place Louisville (451.5). Michigan got here third (420.5), adopted by Ohio State (250.5). Seven totally different Hoosiers gained occasions of their CSL debuts, and IU’s celebrity second-years
Alex Shackell and
Liberty Clark led the group with three wins apiece.
The Hoosier ladies flexed their toughness and endurance, profitable each skins occasions – an elimination-style dash competitors during which athletes race back-to-back rounds till two athletes/groups stay for a last head-to-head showdown. Shackell gained the person skins competitors, outlasting her opponents by means of 4 rounds of 50-yard butterfly and going occasions of 23.44, 23.63, 23.57 and 23.22 in her races. She then swam 4 fly splits of the 200-yard medley “super skins,” as she,
Miranda Grana, Anita Bottazzo and
Kristina Paegle gained the ultimate occasion of the evening.
Shackell additionally swept the person butterfly occasions, rounding out an ideal meet.
Clark swept the freestyle occasions, dropping occasions of 21.65 within the 50 free, 46.60 within the 100 free and 1:43.21 within the 200 free. With her 100-yard freestyle time, the second-year swimmer now owns the highest 10 performances in program historical past.
Raekwon Noel and
Miranda Grana labored collectively to brush the backstroke occasions. Grana gained the College Swimming League’s first race with a 1:49.85 within the 200-yard backstroke. She gained the 100 again on the contact, out-splitting Michigan’s Lexi Greenhawt within the final 50 yards.
The 2026 Big Ten Swimmer of the Year,
Josh Bey, captured wins within the 200-yard breaststroke and 200 IM.
Alexei Avakov made it a males’s breaststroke sweep together with his victory within the 100-yard occasion, and switch Anita Bottazzo received her first win as a Hoosier within the ladies’s 100 breast.
UP NEXT Indiana will swim its Cream and Crimson exhibition meet on October 2 earlier than internet hosting Texas and Northwestern October 9 in its first true twin meet(s) of the 2026-27 season. The Hoosiers return to CSL motion October 16 in Match 5 of the sequence, the place they will face Cal, NC State and Stanford.
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