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Looze named Big Ten Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year

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IU Head Swim Coach Ray Looze was named Big Ten Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year on Tuesday afternoon after previously winning the same award on the women’s side.

Looze became the first coach ever to be named Big Ten coach of the year for both men and women last year and became the first to repeat both this season.

The Hoosiers finished seventh in the men’s NCAA Championships with 229.5 total points this past weekend. It was the best finish for the Hoosiers since finishing seventh in 1979. It was also IU’s fifth top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships in six years.

This marked the second consecutive year that IU finished as the top Big Ten team at NCAAs. The team totaled 32 All-American honors over the course of the week, their most since 1975.

Looze guided the Hoosiers through an undefeated dual-meet season and their 25th Big Ten Championship entering NCAAs.

At Big Tens, the Hoosiers combined for 14 school records, five Big Ten records, six meet records, seven pool records, 16 NCAA A cut times and 87 NCAA B cut times.

This also marks Looze’s fifth time receiving the Big Ten Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year honors and eighth overall.

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