400 Free Relay, Shackell 200 Fly Spotlight IU’s Final Night time Program

ATLANTA – Indiana has 4 alternatives to attain huge and put a bow on its week on the 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday (March 21) evening contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
 
Five Hoosiers clinched factors from Saturday’s remaining morning, sending three of these to championship finals. Freshmen Liberty Clark and Alex Shackell and junior Miranda Grana will look to maximise their scoring with second swims within the remaining session of the week, kicking off at 6 p.m. ET. Indiana ranked No. 7 within the group standings coming into the day.
 
Shackell will swim in lane 4 of the 200-yard butterfly championship remaining as the highest qualifier with a morning time of 1:51.68. The stage is about for a rematch of the Big Ten championship remaining, wherein each Shackell and Michigan junior Hannah Bellard each went below the earlier Big Ten document. Bellard received that matchup however positioned second in Saturday morning’s swims. Shackell is the lone freshman within the remaining.
 
Like Shackell, Clark clinched her third championship remaining of the week within the 100-yard freestyle having already earned silver within the 200 free and sixth within the 50 free, amassing program and age group information within the course of. Clark positioned fifth within the morning with a 46.54, in need of her 46.22 that received the Big Ten title final month.
 
Grana reached the ultimate of the 200-yard backstroke with a morning 1:50.18. Her greatest time is a 1:48.73, set on the NCAA Championships a yr in the past. Senior Mya DeWitt earned a particular second within the occasion, setting a private greatest (1:51.96) by 1.34 seconds and amassing factors because the No. 15 finisher within the remaining race of her collegiate profession.
 
Junior Ella Roselli simply missed out on the championship remaining of the platform diving competitors, inserting ninth within the prelim with a rating of 291.70. Roselli fought again from a 36.80-point first-round dive to attain vital factors.
 
To shut the evening, Indiana has the prospect to higher the Big Ten document it has improved on all spring within the 400-yard freestyle relay. IU’s 3:07.72 from freshmen Clark, Shackell, senior Kristina Paegle and freshman Grace Hoeper received the Big Ten title in February and set the No. 3 time within the nation.

RESULTS

200 IM

18. Reese Tiltmann – 1:56.74

 

100 FREESTYLE

5. Liberty Clark – 46.54 (Championship Final, First-Team All-America)

27. Kristina Paegle – 48.00

36. Grace Hoeper – 48.41

 

200 BUTTERFLY

1. Alex Shackell – 1:51.68 (Championship Final Top Qualifier, First-Team All-America)

 

200 BACKSTROKE

7. Miranda Grana – 1:50.18 (Championship Final, First-Team All-America)

15. Mya DeWitt – 1:51.96 (Personal Best, Second-Team All-America)

 

PLATFORM

9. Ella Roselli – 291.70 (Second-Team All-America)

t25. Mary Kate Cavanaugh – 240.80

29. Kaylee Bishop – 239.35

 

HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS

Liberty Clark – 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay, 100 freestyle

Mya DeWitt – 100 backstroke*, 200 backstroke*

Miranda Grana – 200 medley relay*, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke*, 400 medley relay, 200 backstroke

Macky Hodges – 800 freestyle relay

Grace Hoeper – 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle relay

Jonette Laegreid – 200 medley relay*, 400 medley relay

Kristina Paegle – 200 medley relay*, 200 freestyle relay, 50 freestyle*

Ella Roselli – 1-meter springboard*, platform*

Alex Shackell – 200 medley relay*, 800 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay, 200 butterfly

Reese Tiltmann – 400 IM*

* – Denotes second-team honoree

 

UP NEXT

Indiana will race within the 100 free, 200 fly, 200 again and 400 free relay on the ultimate evening of NCAA Championships.

 

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