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ATLANTA – Looking to maintain its momentum from a program-record fourth place nationwide end final season, No. 6-ranked Indiana travels to the 2026 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships this week in Atlanta.
The four-day meet will run Wednesday (March 18) by means of Saturday (March 21) contained in the McCauley Aquatic Center. Final periods will kick off at 6 p.m. ET every evening, preceded by preliminary heats every morning beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Fans can stream the competitors through the ESPN+ digital platform.
FORMAT CHANGES
The 2026 championships embrace three main format adjustments.
First, the championships won’t embrace ‘B’ finals. Athletes that place ninth by means of sixteenth from preliminaries will nonetheless earn second-team All-American standing however won’t have a second swim, retaining the position they earned within the morning.
Second, relay and 1,650-yard freestyle timed finals will happen in the course of the preliminary session. Only the quickest heats of these occasions will swim within the night.
Third, the diving championship finals will cut up in two elements in the course of the night session. Each of the three closing nights will observe this order: two swimming occasions, first three rounds of diving, two swimming occasions, closing three rounds of diving, relay.
SENIORS’ FINAL STAND
Mya DeWitt and Kristina Paegle characterize a senior class that has delivered nothing however historic crew success as a part of program report finishes every earlier yr – seventh in 2023, seventh in 2024 and fourth in 2025.
Paegle has totaled 20 All-American honors throughout her profession and might surpass former teammate Anna Peplowski (21) for many by a Hoosier lady this week. Paegle will swim the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and certain function on a number of relays.
THE FUTURE IS HERE
Indiana had the highest-scoring freshman class at Big Ten Championships by far, and 4 Hoosier rookies will look to make their marks on the nationwide meet.
Despite swimming in three meets for Indiana this season, Alex Shackell owns this system information within the 100-yard butterfly (49.95) and 200-yard butterfly (1:50.71). She comes into the week because the No. 3 seed in each occasions.
Liberty Clark has the No. 3 seed within the 200-yard freestyle in addition to the No. 5 seed within the 100-yard freestyle and No. 9 seed within the 50-yard freestyle. Clark has set program information within the 50 free (21.47) and 100 free (46.22). Her greatest 200 free time (1:40.84) sits simply 34 hundredths off Anna Peplowski’s report that gained the NCAA title final season.
Clark and Shackell have been the highest freshman scorers at Big Tens, and Grace Hoeper ranked fourth. Hoeper will be part of Clark in these freestyle occasions and can seemingly function in all three freestyle relays. Kaylee Bishop will make her NCAA debut within the platform diving occasion.
JUNIOR JUICE
Indiana returns its second-highest scoring athlete from the 2025 championships in junior Miranda Grana, who earned a bronze medal within the 100-yard backstroke (49.62), fourth place within the 100-yard butterfly (50.01) and ninth within the 200-yard backstroke (1:48.73). Grana ranks high six in every occasion coming into the week.
Classmate Macky Hodges will look to construct on her momentum from Big Ten Championships, the place she posted private greatest instances in two of the three occasions she’s going to swim this week. Hodges was the convention bronze medalist within the 200-yard backstroke, positioned sixth within the 200-yard IM and ninth within the 400 IM (4:09.12).
POINTS ON THE BOARDS
Atlanta final hosted the NCAA Championships in 2022. That yr, Tarrin Gilliland gained her second consecutive NCAA platform championship. Indiana women and men have mixed for seven platform titles within the final 5 seasons.
Four divers certified for the nationwide meet after the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships final week, led by juniors Ella Roselli and Lily Witte. Roselli will compete in all three occasions after reaching the A closing in every on the convention meet.
HOOSIER RELAYS
Indiana certified all 5 relays, 4 of which is able to swim the night session. Clark, Shackell, Paegle and Hoeper made up Indiana’s Big Ten-record breaking 400-yard freestyle relay that gained the convention title with a time of three:07.72. That efficiency gave them the No. 3 seed in what would be the closing race of this week’s championships.
MEET INFO
Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21 • 10 a.m. ET (prelims), 6 p.m. (finals)
McAuley Aquatic Center • Atlanta, Ga.
Live Results (Swimming): https://bit.ly/4rBP1N7/Meet Mobile (App)
Live Results (Diving): divemeets.com
Live Stream: ESPN+
SCHEDULED EVENTS (Finals)
Wednesday (6 p.m. ET) – 1,650 freestyle, 200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay
Thursday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 freestyle relay, 1-meter springboard
Friday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 500 freestyle, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 3-meter springboard
Saturday (6 p.m. ET) – 200 IM, 100 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 400 freestyle relay, platform
INDIANA SWIMMING AND DIVING QUALIFIERS
2026 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
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
@IndianaSwimDive
Be certain to maintain up with all the newest information on the Indiana males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
#NeverDaunted
The four-day meet will run Wednesday (March 18) by means of Saturday (March 21) contained in the McCauley Aquatic Center. Final periods will kick off at 6 p.m. ET every evening, preceded by preliminary heats every morning beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Fans can stream the competitors through the ESPN+ digital platform.
FORMAT CHANGES
The 2026 championships embrace three main format adjustments.
First, the championships won’t embrace ‘B’ finals. Athletes that place ninth by means of sixteenth from preliminaries will nonetheless earn second-team All-American standing however won’t have a second swim, retaining the position they earned within the morning.
Second, relay and 1,650-yard freestyle timed finals will happen in the course of the preliminary session. Only the quickest heats of these occasions will swim within the night.
Third, the diving championship finals will cut up in two elements in the course of the night session. Each of the three closing nights will observe this order: two swimming occasions, first three rounds of diving, two swimming occasions, closing three rounds of diving, relay.
SENIORS’ FINAL STAND
Mya DeWitt and Kristina Paegle characterize a senior class that has delivered nothing however historic crew success as a part of program report finishes every earlier yr – seventh in 2023, seventh in 2024 and fourth in 2025.
Paegle has totaled 20 All-American honors throughout her profession and might surpass former teammate Anna Peplowski (21) for many by a Hoosier lady this week. Paegle will swim the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and certain function on a number of relays.
THE FUTURE IS HERE
Indiana had the highest-scoring freshman class at Big Ten Championships by far, and 4 Hoosier rookies will look to make their marks on the nationwide meet.
Despite swimming in three meets for Indiana this season, Alex Shackell owns this system information within the 100-yard butterfly (49.95) and 200-yard butterfly (1:50.71). She comes into the week because the No. 3 seed in each occasions.
Liberty Clark has the No. 3 seed within the 200-yard freestyle in addition to the No. 5 seed within the 100-yard freestyle and No. 9 seed within the 50-yard freestyle. Clark has set program information within the 50 free (21.47) and 100 free (46.22). Her greatest 200 free time (1:40.84) sits simply 34 hundredths off Anna Peplowski’s report that gained the NCAA title final season.
Clark and Shackell have been the highest freshman scorers at Big Tens, and Grace Hoeper ranked fourth. Hoeper will be part of Clark in these freestyle occasions and can seemingly function in all three freestyle relays. Kaylee Bishop will make her NCAA debut within the platform diving occasion.
JUNIOR JUICE
Indiana returns its second-highest scoring athlete from the 2025 championships in junior Miranda Grana, who earned a bronze medal within the 100-yard backstroke (49.62), fourth place within the 100-yard butterfly (50.01) and ninth within the 200-yard backstroke (1:48.73). Grana ranks high six in every occasion coming into the week.
Classmate Macky Hodges will look to construct on her momentum from Big Ten Championships, the place she posted private greatest instances in two of the three occasions she’s going to swim this week. Hodges was the convention bronze medalist within the 200-yard backstroke, positioned sixth within the 200-yard IM and ninth within the 400 IM (4:09.12).
POINTS ON THE BOARDS
Atlanta final hosted the NCAA Championships in 2022. That yr, Tarrin Gilliland gained her second consecutive NCAA platform championship. Indiana women and men have mixed for seven platform titles within the final 5 seasons.
Four divers certified for the nationwide meet after the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships final week, led by juniors Ella Roselli and Lily Witte. Roselli will compete in all three occasions after reaching the A closing in every on the convention meet.
HOOSIER RELAYS
Indiana certified all 5 relays, 4 of which is able to swim the night session. Clark, Shackell, Paegle and Hoeper made up Indiana’s Big Ten-record breaking 400-yard freestyle relay that gained the convention title with a time of three:07.72. That efficiency gave them the No. 3 seed in what would be the closing race of this week’s championships.
MEET INFO
Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21 • 10 a.m. ET (prelims), 6 p.m. (finals)
McAuley Aquatic Center • Atlanta, Ga.
Live Results (Swimming): https://bit.ly/4rBP1N7/Meet Mobile (App)
Live Results (Diving): divemeets.com
Live Stream: ESPN+
SCHEDULED EVENTS (Finals)
Wednesday (6 p.m. ET) – 1,650 freestyle, 200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay
Thursday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 freestyle relay, 1-meter springboard
Friday (6 p.m. ET) – 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 500 freestyle, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 3-meter springboard
Saturday (6 p.m. ET) – 200 IM, 100 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 400 freestyle relay, platform
INDIANA SWIMMING AND DIVING QUALIFIERS
2026 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
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
@IndianaSwimDive
Be certain to maintain up with all the newest information on the Indiana males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
#NeverDaunted
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