Indiana Finalizes Rosters for 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Following the NCAA’s announcement of swimming qualifiers for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in addition to the conclusion of the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, No. 3/6 Indiana finalized its rosters for the nationwide meet on Wednesday (March 11).
 
Thirty-two athletes will signify IU over the following two weeks on the two NCAA swimming and diving championship meets, beginning with the ladies’s competitors scheduled to run subsequent Wednesday by way of Saturday (March 18-21). The males’s meet will run the next week (March 25-28).
 
Indiana certified 19 athletes – 16 swimmers, three divers – for the lads’s meet, the nation’s largest roster. IU added 4 divers to its ladies’s roster this week on the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships after the NCAA introduced 9 swimmers had certified final Tuesday.
 
The Big Ten Champion males can have a consultant in each occasion and a number of opponents in 20 of twenty-two occasions. The Hoosiers have six {qualifications} within the 400-yard IM, 5 within the 100-yard backstroke and 4 apiece within the 500-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard IM.
 
Including relays, Hoosiers personal 16 high 10 seeds and 6 high 5 seeds of their occasions. The two-time reigning NCAA Champion within the 1,650-yard freestyle, senior Zalán Sárkány is favored to win the mile once more as the highest seed within the occasion. Sárkány additionally owns the No. 2 seed within the 500-yard freestyle. Classmate Owen McDonald has the highest seed within the 200 IM. Freshman Josh Bey ranks No. 2 within the 400 IM after breaking the Big Ten file in his convention title victory final month.
 
2026 NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Indiana Women’s Qualifiers
Kaylee Bishop – platform
Mary Kate Cavanaugh – platform
Liberty Clark – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Mya DeWitt – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
Miranda Grana – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly
Macky Hodges – 200 backstroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Grace Hoeper – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle
Jonette Laegreid – Relay alternate
Kristina Paegle – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Ella Roselli – 1-meter, 3-meter, platform
Alex Shackell – 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly
Reese Tiltmann – 200 breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Lily Witte – 1-meter, 3-meter
200 freestyle relay
400 freestyle relay
800 freestyle relay
200 medley relay
400 freestyle relay
 
Indiana Men’s Qualifiers
Alexei Avakov – 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke
Toby Barnett – 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke, 200 IM
Josh Bey – 200 breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Noah Cakir – 200 breaststroke, 200 IM, 400 IM
Luke Ellis – 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle, 400 IM
Travis Gulledge – 50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke
Miroslav Knedla – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
David Kovacs – 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 400 IM
Mikkel Lee – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Owen McDonald – 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 IM
Raekwon Noel – 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly
Aiden Sadler – 3-meter
Zalán Sárkány – 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle, 400 IM
Aaron Shackell – 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle, 200 butterfly
Dylan Smiley – 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke
Joshua Sollenberger – 1-meter, 3-meter
Maxwell Weinrich – 1-meter, 3-meter, platform
Kai van Westering – 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
Luke Whitlock – 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle, 400 IM
200 freestyle relay
400 freestyle relay
800 freestyle relay
200 medley relay
400 freestyle relay
 
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