Big Ten Swimmer of the Year title goes to Snodgrass after career-best swim

IU sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass is the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday.

Snodgrass became IU’s second swimming national champion at the NCAA Championships last weekend by winning the 200-yard backstroke.
Her time 1:50.52 is a career best.

Snodgrass joined 2010 National Champion Kate Fesenko as one of two Hoosiers to swim the event in less than one minute, fifty-one seconds.

Earlier in the meet, Snodgrass placed fourth in the 100-yard backstroke for the Hoosiers.
At the Big Ten Championships at the end of February, Snodgrass had four first-place finishes.

She won the 100-yard backstroke in 51.65 seconds and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:51.43.

Snodgrass was also part of the winning 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard medley relay teams.

Snodgrass is the third-consecutive Hoosier to win the award.

Senior Lindsay Vrooman won in 2013 and Allysa Vavra in 2012.
IU has had the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year in five of the past six years.

-Grace Palmieri