3 IU swimmers named to national team

Three IU swimmers were named to the USA Swimming National Team Tuesday.

Seniors Cody Miller and Lindsay Vrooman and junior Steve Schmuhl made the team after each posted one of the top six American times in their respective events.

All three were top finishers at the U.S. Open this summer.

The team is selected by taking the top six Americans in each Olympic event.

“Indiana swimming is excited to have three collegiate swimmers make the USA Swimming National Team,” IU Coach Ray Looze said in a release. “This program accomplishment is indicative of the outstanding summer our women and men had in 2013.

“Lindsay, Steve, and Cody have now placed themselves on track to vie for the US Olympic team in 2016.”

Miller will compete in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke. He’s sixth fastest in the 100-meter, and fifth fastest in the 200-meter.

Miller is also the Big Ten champion in both events.

Schmuhl will race in two events. He set school records in both the 200- and
400-meter individual medleys at the U.S. Open.

Schmuhl finished fifth in the 400 IM at the NCAA Championships last year.

Vrooman will swim the 400-meter freestyle for the team. She has the fourth best time among American women in the event, swimming it in 4:08.13 at the U.S. Open.

Vrooman’s time is also an IU record. She’s coming off a year that earned her Big Ten Swimmer of the Year.

— Robby Howard