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(12/05/13 5:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s and women’s swim teams will compete at the 2013 USA Swimming Winter National Championships this weekend in Knoxville, Tenn.The teams will send 32 Hoosiers to the meet, while the remaining swimmers will compete at the local Winter Invitational at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. To qualify, each swimmer needed to meet the Winter National cut time qualification.“This will be the last opportunity for us, either here or down at Winter Nationals, to post some times and really see where we’re at,” IU Coach Ray Looze said.The Hoosiers are coming off a month of training without competition. Looze said it has been a great opportunity for the team to focus on phase one of its training.“We’ve had just a lot of uninterrupted training most importantly,” he said. “We’ve been working on our mental toughness and the ability to swim fast while in heavy training.”Junior swimmer Joe Powell said the team is mentally preparing to get back into competition mode.“We’ve been training really hard the month of November,” he said. “Everyone’s swimming really fast, so we’re coming down a little bit and making sure that we’re more focused on this meet rather than on volume.”Leading the way for the Hoosiers at Winter Nationals will be national team members and seniors Cody Miller and Lindsay Vrooman and junior Steve Schmuhl.Primarily a distance swimmer, Vrooman will be the third seed in the 500-meter and 1,650-meter freestyle. She is also the seventh seed in the 200-meter freestyle.Miller is the top seed in the 200-meter breaststroke and 200-meter individual medley, as well as the second seed in the 100-meter breaststroke. Schmuhl enters the meet as the third seed in the 400-meter IM and seventh seed in the 200-meter IM.For Looze, the team’s goal going into this weekend is clear.“We want to swim really, really fast and make a nice statement to USA swimming that we’re continuing to improve as a program,” he said.Other top swimmers for IU include senior backstrokers Eric Ress and James Wells and sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass. Senior Bronwyn Pasloski will lead the women in the breaststroke, senior Brenna MacLean in the butterfly, and sophomore Haley Lips in the freestyle.The Hoosiers will face off against top programs such as Michigan, Tennessee and Louisville.In the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, the men’s team is currently ranked ninth, and the women are No. 14.This weekend the team hopes to see where it stands among the some of the best teams in the country.“I think it’ll be a good gage of where we are,” Powell said. “When we get a lot of fast swimming in the middle of the season, it helps us get really excited for the end of the season. That way, during the last two months before Big Tens, we always put in a lot of good work, especially after a good winter meet.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(12/04/13 5:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ten high school swimmers have signed their National Letter of Intent to join the IU swim team in 2014 since Nov. 20.The recruiting process for this class began two years ago and still isn’t complete.IU Coach Ray Looze said he is excited about the swimmers the team has so far, especially with the depth and international experience they will bring.In finding swimmers who he can build a team around, Looze said he looks beyond the impressive qualities.He looks for the intangibles, such as work ethic, character, leadership, competitiveness and ability to perform under pressure.Looze said he looks at whether each swimmer is team-oriented.“In a two-hour workout you start to reveal who you really are,” he said. “The individualist will not be happy at Indiana University.”Looze said he continues to recruit 365 days a year, and he doesn’t go a day without doing something in recruiting — not even national holidays.The recruiting doesn’t stop there, though.Junior Dorina Szekeres is from Hungary and freshman Anze Tavcar came to IU from Slovenia.Kennedy Goss, a Toronto native, will join Canadian sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass and junior Cynthia Pammett in 2014.Goss competed at Junior Worlds, the top meet for swimmers 18 and younger. She will swim the backstroke and freestyle.Goss’s father was an Olympic swimmer, and her mother is a sports psychologist.Although she won’t be close to home, Goss looks to follow in their footsteps as she works toward her own Olympic dream and studies psychology at IU.Also on the women’s side, sprinter Kaitlin Kitchens will become a Hoosier in 2014.Out of Atlanta, she currently swims for one of the top teams in the country.Ali Rockett and Delaney Barnard complete a trio of freestylers for the recruiting class.Marie Chamberlain, from Cape Cod, Mass., was the YMCA National Champion last year and holds the meet’s record in the 100-meter backstroke. She will join the IU backstroke squad.For Chamberlain, swimming at IU is the next step toward her Olympic dream.She began swimming at age 8 and said she always hoped to compete at the highest level. She said she now sets her sights on Rio and Tokyo.“Marie Chamberlain goes in line with some of the great backstrokers we have in the program and have had,” Looze said. “We think she can be really, really good.”Looze said he is continuing to search for a female breaststroker and female distance swimmer.On the men’s side, Teddy Kalp and Blake Pieroni are two who competed at Junior Worlds with Goss.Kalp, a Canadian, is primarily a middle-distance freestyler.Pieroni was one of the top Indiana recruits, helping lead Chesterton High School to the state title last season.He is the defending Indiana High School Champion in the 200 individual medley and two-time defending champion in the 100-meter freestyle for Chesterton.“Blake Pieroni is one of the top 18 and under freestylers in the world,” Looze said. “He was probably the top overall recruit for the state of Indiana, so it’s awesome to get him.”Brandon Colonis, from West Lafayette, and Cody Taylor, from Columbus, Ind., are two other in-state recruits.Both are primarily breaststrokers and Taylor, who is a member of the Junior National team, was state champion last winter in the 100-yard breaststroke.For now, Ryan Gordon completes the 2014 freshman class.His best strokes are the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, and he was a U.S. Open Qualifier in 2013.“Ryan Gordon is a backstroker and IM-er from New York State,” Looze said. “We’re losing a lot of backstrokers with Eric (Ress) and James (Wells) graduating, so he’s going to really help us.”As for replacing this year’s seniors, Looze said it’s not all about filling spots in each individual stroke.“The biggest thing we’re losing is awesome leadership,” he said. “We don’t always try to replace by need, but more by those characteristics.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(11/14/13 5:33am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When senior diver Darian Schmidt started diving, he was a freshman in high school. Just two months later, he quit.Later that year, he got a phone call. It was from Mark Lenzi, 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist. Lenzi, a wrestler in high school, began diving after being captivated by Greg Louganis’ performance at the 1984 Olympic games. Diving immediately became his passion.An IU alum, Lenzi had just moved back to Indiana and was coaching the local club diving team. Then he called Schmidt.“He called me and said, ‘I heard you dove last year but didn’t like it. Just come check it out, and maybe you’ll like it.’ And my parents were like, ‘I think that’s the Olympic Gold Medalist,’” Schmidt said. “That was the coolest thing ever.”All his life, Schmidt had played football, basketball and baseball. When he got to high school, he decided he was too small to continue playing the sports he had always loved. As a freshman, he stuck with baseball hoping to eventually play in college.After he got the call from Lenzi, however, his focus turned to diving. He began training year round, competing for his high school team at Bloomington South as well as IU club diving. Schmidt said he liked the change to an individual sport.“I like having all the pressure on me,” he said. “I can’t blame somebody else. It’s not like ‘Oh, we lost because we could’ve played better defense.’ It’s all on me.”His first year back as a diver, he reached state championships. Schmidt then built on this accomplishment his junior year with a third-place finish. Less than three years after beginning his training in the sport, he was state champion.Schmidt is from Bloomington and wanted to attend IU ever since he could remember. He grew up with four brothers and, being family-oriented, never wanted to leave.He was also raised among a family of athletes. Both of his parents were gymnasts at IU. Though he was never a gymnast, Schmidt said he probably got the flipping from them.Long before he set his sights on diving, Schmidt would flip on the trampoline in the backyard with his dad, and he would often dive at the swimming pool in the summer. It was always just for fun, though, never anything close to an Olympic dream.That all changed one day at club diving practice. Lenzi brought in his Olympic gold medal to show the team. After trying on the medal, Schmidt knew that was something he wanted to accomplish.He has spent the past couple Olympics watching the athletes he aspires to one day become.“Just watching those athletes dedicate their lives and put their heart and soul into diving, or any sport, and then to watch them achieve it is super inspiring,” he said.He knew achieving the high goals he had set for himself wouldn’t just come to him. It would take unrivaled dedication. Schmidt said he looks forward to every practice and never gets tired of seeing how much he can improve each day.“I try to take every day and give it 100 percent in the pool,” he said.He has mental routines for before each meet, in between each dive and right before performing the dive. Before the meet, he hits a sign that says “Whatever It Takes,” a reminder to remain motivated toward his ultimate goals.In addition to the 20 hours of practice a week, Schmidt often comes early to practice or stays late to get in more work. His hard work has shown in competition so far in his collegiate career.As a sophomore, Schmidt was Big Ten Champion in the 3-meter and synchronized competitions and was on his way to being named Big Ten Diver of the Championships. He repeated this feat a year later, while going on to place sixth on the 1-meter and third on the 3-meter at the NCAA Championships. He was also named Big Ten Diver of the Year.Last summer at United States Nationals, he had second, third and fourth-place finishes in the synchronized 3-meter, 1-meter and 3-meter competitions, respectively. Schmidt also currently owns six school records.“He’s competing with the best divers in the country right now and starting to compete against some of the best divers in the world,” IU Diving Coach Drew Johansen said. “He doesn’t have the long history (in diving). He has developed that world level in a relatively short period of time. It’s pretty special.”Schmidt has high expectations for the remainder of this season, as he hopes to be Big Ten Champion in the 1- and 3-meter, just as Lenzi was in 1989. Other goals include becoming NCAA Champion on the 1- and 3-meter and being champion at U.S. Nationals in December.Though his eligibility will expire at the conclusion of the season, he has one year of school left. Next year, he will continue to train at IU and be coached by Johansen. Schmidt said once he’s done with school in 2014, his “life will be training.”At the Olympic Trials in 2016, he will attempt to qualify in both the 3-meter springboard and 3-meter synchronized competitions.“Our hope is for him to get a lot more international experience next year once the NCAA career comes to an end. Traveling internationally and competing head to head with divers around the world is the next step for Darian in his quest for Rio,” Johansen said.Schmidt said he doesn’t know what’s in store for him after 2016. He hopes to continue diving for as long as possible.When his diving career comes to a close, he doesn’t want to leave the sport. Schmidt said he wants to become a diving coach, first at the club level and eventually take over a college program.For now, though, his life is all about the Olympic dream.“I eat, sleep and breathe diving,” he said. “Right now we’re definitely training for the college season, but we’re preparing for the Olympics.”At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Mark Lenzi was the 3-meter springboard champion. It wasn’t until 20 years later that an American won a medal in diving again when David Boudia, Purdue University alum, took gold in the 10-meter platform and bronze in the 10-meter synchronized at the London Olympics in 2012.In 2016, Schmidt will attempt to become a part of the tradition of Big Ten diving success.“He does the hardest dives in the world and makes them as easy as anybody,” Johansen said. “He’s probably one of the best divers in the U.S. and amongst the world.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(11/07/13 4:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week by the conference Tuesday.This is Snodgrass’s second Swimmer of the Week honor this season, fourth of her career and seventh Big Ten weekly award overall.Last weekend in a dual meet split against Tennessee and Kentucky, Snodgrass won the 100-meter backstroke in 54.6 seconds, her fourth NCAA B cut in the event this year. She also posted a time of 1:57.92, her third NCAA B cut on the season in that event, as she won the 200-meter backstroke.Snodgrass helped the team to second-place finishes in the 200-medley and 400-freesyle relays.She won the award for the first time this season on Oct. 22 after winning the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke in the SMU Classic.The Hoosiers’ next competition will be Dec. 5-7 at the USA Swimming Winter Nationals in Knoxville, Tenn.— Grace Palmieri
(11/04/13 3:51am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU swimming Coach Ray Looze had an almost endless list of swimmers to praise after Friday’s meet.The men’s team saw contributions all across the board in its 208-92 and 179-121 sweep of Kentucky and No. 8 Tennessee, respectively.“We put emphasis on this meet all week long,” Looze said. “We couldn’t be happier going against two solid SEC opponents.”Senior swimmer Eric Ress won the 200-meter backstroke and both the 500-meter and 1,000-meter freestyle. Looze said such a race load was uncommon, and the result was the kind of aggression he was looking for out of his swimmers.“For a guy to be able to do that and then still throw up a great relay split on the end was phenomenal leadership,” Looze said.Ress said the team trained even harder this past week than it had previously.“Basically what we did this week was we took what we did at Texas/Michigan and worked out a lot of those things like really good finishes and winning close races, just being more competitive at practice,” Ress said.The Hoosiers went 1-2-3 in the 200-meter freestyle with freshmen Anze Tavcar, Max Irwin and Jackson Miller finishing first, second and third, respectively.IU’s relay team of senior James Wells, senior Cody Miller, Irwin and sophomore Tanner Kurz won the 200-meter medley relay. Other first-place finishes included Miller in the 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter individual medley, and junior Steve Schmuhl in the 200-meter butterfly.Ress said the biggest difference in team results this week was encouragement from teammates.“At first, I didn’t know how much of an impact that was going to have, but it was incredible how much having everybody cheer and be really loud motivated everyone,” he said.Looze is confident in the progress his team is making from week to week.“By February or March we’re going to end up with a great team that has a chance to be top five in NCAA’s because of what we’ve been through over the past several weeks,” he said.The women’s team earned another split this weekend, beating Kentucky handily 199-95 and losing to No. 8 Tennessee 171-123.The team was shorthanded this week with the absence of senior Kait Flederbach, who was ill. Senior Allie Day also missed practice at the beginning of the week due to illness but was still able to compete.“This was an opportunity for others to step up,” Looze said. “We showed such toughness and fought tooth and nail to the end.”Sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass, freshman Gia Dalesandro, senior Bronwyn Pasloski and senior Stephanie Armstrong opened the meet with a second-place finish in the 200-meter medley relay. The Hoosiers went 1-3 in the 100-meter backstroke with Snodgrass finishing first and Day, third.Last week’s Big Ten Freshman of the Week, Olivia Barker, was second in the 200-meter butterfly, posting a season-best time of 1:58.88.In diving, senior Kate Hillman finished second in the 3-meter competition and was third on the 1-meter.With the absence of senior diver Darian Schmidt due to injury, the men’s team had to show its depth competing against two of the top diving programs in the country.Senior Emad Abdelatif won the 1-meter springboard competition with a personal best 350.20 points. Seniors Bryce Ogden and Conor Murphy then went 2-3 in the 3-meter.“Today was a marked improvement on their consistency,” head diving Coach Drew Johansen said. “All the scores were higher than what they’ve been, and the misses they had were not substantial misses.”Looze was complimentary of the divers as well in being able to come through to help them win.“Just in general, to see IU diving show their depth and the fact that anybody can step up and get the job done against this kind of competition was great,” he said.Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(11/01/13 4:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>This season, the men’s swimming team has experienced something it isn’t normally accustomed to. The Hoosiers have lost to their first four opponents of the season, No. 1 Michigan, No. 3 California, No. 4 Texas and No. 5 Stanford.After finishing ninth in the NCAA Championships last season, IU is now ranked No. 9. This weekend, the team hopes to bounce back as it plays host to a dual meet with Tennessee and Kentucky.IU Coach Ray Looze said he expects to see high-level competition again this weekend. He said he’s worried the Hoosiers are looking like a beatable team right now and wants to see more from his swimmers.“We definitely need to get more people able to step up while they’re working intensely,” he said. “We’re training really hard right now, but you have to assume other programs are doing the same thing.”After a positive week of practice, the No. 9 Hoosiers hope to take a step forward. This includes leading from the start of the meet and taking the momentum early.Looze said he hopes this weekend will “improve their confidence and get them turned around mentally” as they look to get back on track.He looks forward to them being able to compete again with less than a week of practice.“Both Kentucky and Tennessee are good quality SEC teams, so the fortunate thing is we get to get right back on the horse really quick,” he said.Looze’s main focus for his team this week is to be aggressive. The team remains confident in the overall progress it is making, even if the score doesn’t reflect that right now.“You’re only as good as the last thing you do,” Looze said.The women’s team is coming off a split, defeating Michigan and losing to Texas. The women are now 2-2 on the season and they face No. 8 Tennessee this weekend.Freshman Gia Dalesandro said she expects IU will see similar competition to last weekend.“I think some events we should go 1-2 in and others will be more of a fight to win, but I think we can do it,” she said. “I know we were all upset that we lost by three points to Texas, so I don’t think that’s going to happen again.”Last week, the IU women swept the Big Ten weekly awards with senior Lindsay Vrooman being named Swimmer of the Week and Olivia Barker earning Freshman of the Week honors.The team looks to build off of its successes this weekend.“We’re all mentally preparing for the challenge and getting really excited,” Dalesandro said.IU Coach Drew Johansen is looking for “overall consistency” from the divers. He said although each diver may not get a victory at each meet, the day can still be successful.“For me it’s about how they go about doing their dives, the process of the dive, more so than the outcome of the dive right now,” he said.This week in practice the team worked on the technical aspects of its dives and the Hoosiers worked to simulate a real meet situation.“This week we went back to the basics a little bit,” senior diver Darian Schmidt said. “We had two meets the past three weekends, and we just took a step back and drilled in our basics. Then we amped up the numbers and brought our hard dives in at the end of the week.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(10/30/13 3:06am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the second consecutive week, IU women’s swimming has swept the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week honors. Senior Lindsay Vrooman was named Swimmer of the Week, and freshman Olivia Barker was named Freshman of the Week.This is Vrooman’s first Big Ten Swimmer of the Week award. In the team’s meet against Michigan and Texas, Vrooman won both the 500-meter and 1,000-meter freestyle. She also took third place in the 200-meter freestyle.Barker’s performance last weekend made her IU’s second Freshman of the Week this season. She won the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 1:58.93, an NCAA B cut and the best time in this event by a Hoosier this year. Barker also placed fourth in the 100-meter butterfly.The week before saw sophomore Brooklynn Snodgrass and Gia Dalesandro earn Big Ten Swimmer of the Week and Big Ten Freshman of the Week This weekend, the team will play host to a dual meet against Tennessee and Kentucky.— Grace Palmieri
(10/28/13 3:43am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>To open up their home schedules, the IU swimming and diving teams competed in a dual meet against Michigan and Texas this past weekend.The men’s swimming team struggled against the No. 1 Wolverines and No. 4 Longhorns, falling 203-97 and 204-96, respectively.On Friday, senior Cody Miller finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke, and sophomore Tanner Kurz was fourth. Miller was also third in the 200-meter breaststroke.Senior Eric Ress posted a second place finish in the 200-meter backstroke and was the top IU swimmer in the 500-meter free, finishing third.“We have to step up a little bit more against this level of competition, especially on the men’s side,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “They know that, and they will.”The Hoosiers have faced four of the top five teams in the country this season. “They’ve got great teams, and it just sort of lets us know where we’re at against teams that are competing for national titles because that’s where we want to be at Indiana,” Looze said.On the women’s side, sophomore Brooklyn Snodgrass and freshman Gia Dalesandro each picked up two wins to lead the Hoosiers to a 181-119 win against Michigan. They fell just short against Texas, 151.5-148.5.The two were also part of the winning 200-meter medley relay team. Snodgrass posted a second place finish in the 200-meter backstroke.“Based on this weekend alone, our team had great chemistry,” she said. “We were always cheering for each other, making sure everyone was supported, and everyone usually swims pretty fast when we support each other, so the rest of the season should be pretty fun.”The team as a whole won four of the first five events and swept the distance events.“They are doing a lot of the things that a great team, a championship team, needs to do,” he said.In the diving well, senior Darian Schmidt finished third on the 1-meter, while senior Emad Abdelatif was sixth and senior Conor Murphy, seventh. Schmidt then beat out Texas’ Will Chandler to win the 3-meter competition with a score of 400.45. Murphy finished fourth, and Abdelatif was sixth.Schmidt has now won four of six events to start the season. IU Coach Drew Johansen said he wanted him to perform different dives than he had in California a couple weeks ago, as he works on putting a full list together to give him the best chance to be competitive come postseason.“Even though the results were him winning in both of the meets, I’m happy to see him do it different ways,” Johansen said.For the women’s team, senior Cassidy Kahn took fourth in the 1-meter, and senior Kate Hillman finished second in the 3-meter competition.“We had some misses in there that didn’t allow us to be higher up in the standings,” Johansen said. “But for this part of the year, I think they’re in a good place.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(10/25/13 4:21am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU swimming and diving teams open their home schedule tonight in a dual meet as they take on Michigan and Texas in the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.The women are coming off a second place finish at the SMU Classic this past weekend, falling only to top-ranked USC.Sophomore Brooklyn Snodgrass finished first in the 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke, while also winning the 400 medley relay. Also part of that relay team was freshman Gia Dalesandro, who earned Big Ten weekly honors for her performance at the meet.IU Coach Ray Looze expects tough competition this weekend as well.“They faced some great teams,” Looze said. “We continue to put their backs against the wall.”The men’s team hopes to see improvement after two losses to California and Stanford in its season opener. This weekend presents one of the biggest challenges of their season, as they face No. 4 Texas and No. 1 Michigan, which is the defending national champion.Looze is looking for his team to take the next step against well-coached, high-ranked teams by winning more races and posting some of the better times in the NCAA.“It’s the kind of competition that I feel is important for us to go up against, so that we’re prepared for things of greater importance like NCAAs and Big Tens that happen late in the season,” Looze said.The team had just come out of its general conditioning phase and wasn’t happy with its overall performance against its first two opponents. They are now making the transition into a different training cycle with more speed and resistance training. They hope to see improvements this weekend.“There will be multiple NCAA finalists in every heat,” senior Cody Miller said. “So the fast heat from every event is basically an NCAA final.”The men’s diving team also hopes to bounce back this weekend. Senior Darian Schmidt won both the 1-meter and 3-meter events against California and defeated reigning NCAA champion Kristian Ipsen on the 3-meter at Stanford.IU Coach Drew Johansen expects big things from him, as well as senior divers Kate Hillman and Cassidy Kahn, again this weekend.“If they stay true to their technique and stay true to the process of the dive, I’ll be happy with the result,” Johansen said.Johansen is looking for consistency and for the divers to score in as many events as possible.“It’s going to be a good gage to see how we’ll match up against some of the top programs from last year,” he said.Looze agrees it’s best to be facing tough competition now in order to be the best they can be at the end of the season.“We’re trying to really dial it up a notch in terms of putting the highest level of competition in front of our swimmers and divers that we can,” Looze said. “The only ranking that really matters is the last one.”Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @gpalmieri7.
(10/10/13 4:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After being named to the United States National Team on Sept. 4, IU
senior swimmer Cody Miller was announced as one of Team USA’s
participants in the 2013 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool on Wednesday.The
event is a “made-for-television event designed to showcase the sport’s
most exciting swimmers,” according to a press release.The
competition will be from Dec. 20-21 in Glasgow, Scotland, at the
Tollcross International Swimming Centre. NBC will air coverage of it
Dec. 22.Swimmers for the U.S. team were selected for the event
by posting top times in either the World Championships, World University
Games or U.S. Open.The roster consists of a maximum 22 men and 22 women.Miller swam the breastroke for the U.S. in the World University Games this summer.Miller
is a six-time Big Ten Champion in the breastroke and also won a Big Ten
title in the 200-yard individual medley last year.Participants are limited to a total of six events.The U.S. is undefeated in the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool, winning the first five competitions.— Robby Howard
(09/04/13 4:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>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
(08/20/13 3:29am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four IU divers joined together to form the Indiana Diving Club and took the overall team title Sunday at the AT&T USA Diving National Championships in Iowa City, Iowa.The Indiana Diving Club featured IU graduate Amy Cozad and seniors Kate Hillman, Darian Schmidt and Conor Murphy. The group won three silver medals and a bronze medal during the six-day competition, with a total score of 244 points. Second-place Miami Diving finished with 97 points.Saturday’s events included Cozad taking silver in the 10-meter platform. After competing in the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, last month, Cozad earned second with 340.45 points. Hillman finished eighth in the event with a score of 266.45.The duo of Murphy and IU graduate Casey Johnson finished third in the 10-meter synchronized event Saturday, scoring 321.15 points. Taking fourth place in the synchronized event were sophomore Andrew Hull and junior Danton Rogers with a score of 281.28.Schmidt also competed Saturday, finishing fourth in the 3-meter springboard event with 441.15 points. IU’s divers capped the competition Sunday with strong performances from Schmidt, Cozad and Hillman, as each took home silver in his or her events. Schmidt, along with teammate Michael Hixon, totaled 385.26 points in the 3-meter springboard synchronized competition. Cozad and Hillman also contended as a synchro event on the platform with a score of 286.08 points to take home silver. Both teams finished just five points from first place. Murphy also ended the meet with a sixth-place finish in the 10-meter platform event with a score of 372.90.For the overall individual titles, Schmidt took fourth place and Cozad finished sixth.— Jessica Campbell
(06/30/13 11:41pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU swimmers Lindsay Vrooman and Steve Schmuhl each set school records June 25-29 at the Phillips 66 U.S. Swimming Nationals at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis.Vrooman, a senior from Baden, Pa., recorded new school marks in the 400-, 800- and 1,600-meter freestyle events. Schmuhl, a junior from Broomfield, Colo., broke his own record in the 400-meter individual medley.Five athletes competed for IU at the national competition which determines the U.S. National Team for the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. None of the Hoosiers qualified for the national team, but seniors Cody Miller and James Wells were added to Team USA for the World University Games during the competition.Overall, IU had five top-10 performances during the week.Wells had two, finishing ninth in the 50-meter backstroke June 27. He won the consolation final in the event, just missing the championship heat.He followed that performance with a 10th-place finish June 28 in the 100-meter backstroke.Schmuhl had the best finish of all the Hoosiers, touching the wall fifth June 27 in the 400-meter I.M. in a school-record time of 4:16.55. Earlier in the day, he recorded the third fastest time in school history in prelims. He now has the three fastest times in the event in school history.Vrooman finished sixth in the 400-meter freestyle June 28 with a time of 4:11.16, the second-fastest in school history. She broke Nikki White’s 2009 record in the event during prelims in which she swam the 400 in 4:10.98.Miller recorded the first top-10 finish for the Hoosiers when he finished the 200-meter breastroke in 2:12.91 to finish sixth in the event June 26.Vrooman’s other two school records came June 25, in which she swam 8:37.87 to finish 10th in the prelims of the 800-meter freestyle, and Saturday when she finished 11th in the 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 16:40.94. Both of those marks also bested White’s ’09 performances also. In the 1,600-meter, Vrooman’s time was more than eight seconds faster than White’s previous record.Sophomore Haley Lips added the second-fastest time in IU history in the 200-meter butterfly June 25 with a time of 2:14.25, finishing 19th in prelims.—Robby Howard
(04/03/13 3:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the second year straight, a Hoosier has won the Big Ten Diver of the Year award.Junior Darian Schmidt was named the 2013 Big Ten Diver of the Year, the conference office announced Tuesday.Last week, the IU diver completed the 2012-13 season with two All-American honors at the 2013 NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. The Bloomington High School South graduate earned his highest finish in the 1-meter spring board event at the NCAA meet after placing sixth with a score of 387.90.In the best 3-meter finish by an IU diver since Mark Lenzi in 1990, Schmidt finished third with 425.50 points.At the 2013 Big Ten Championship meet in Bloomington, Schmidt won the Big Ten title in the 1-meter and placed second in the 3-meter. That performance earned him the Big Ten Diver of the Championships award.— Gabrielle Reed
(04/01/13 4:23am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s swimming and diving program brought 14 swimmers to the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships this past weekend at the IU-Purdue University Indianapolis Natatorium and Sports Complex. Nine of those 14 swimmers scored points. Posting their best finish since 1980, the Hoosiers scored 201 points to place ninth. “I couldn’t have been happier with the swimmers and divers during this meet,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “There was a lot of determination.”After a disqualification in the breaststroke leg of the 400-yard individual medley relay at the 2013 Big Ten Championships, junior Cody Miller watched helplessly as another race and another phenomenal time was wiped off the scoreboard at the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Miller hit the wall with a time of 52.02 in the 100-yard breaststroke but was called for an illegal kick. In a preliminary time of 52.66, Miller made the championship final after tying for seventh place. Although Miller missed the mark in the event, Mike Hurley snagged a 22nd-place finish in 53.70 with Tanner Kurz following in 23rd (53.80) in his first individual event at the NCAA Championships. “The officials said Cody (Miller) did a dolphin kick in the final,” Looze said. “It was great to see him respond by making the A final in the 200-yard breaststroke.”Miller redeemed himself in the 200-yard breaststroke by placing fourth in an All-American honors time of 1:53.29. He beat his preliminary time of 1:53.29, which was .87 seconds faster than his preliminary time. Setting a new school record for the Hoosiers, sophomore Steve Schmuhl came out of preliminaries with a time of 3:41.98. In the championship final of the event, Schmuhl swam to a fifth-place finish and earned All-American honors. In the 200-yard butterfly, Schmuhl was able to pick up a 22nd-place finish with his time of 1:44.62. Also setting a school record, senior Jim Barbiere beat his previous record of 14:56.79 by 2.71 seconds after he placed 12th in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 14:54.08. The IU swimmer hadn’t started swimming the event until this year. Junior Eric Ress earned fifth place for the Hoosiers in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:39.92. Second through fifth place spanned .62 seconds. Not only did Ress compete in the 200-yard backstroke, but he also swam in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard backstroke individually. Earning All-American honors for his time of 45.31 in the 100-yard backstroke, Ress placed third for the Hoosiers and improved upon his preliminary time of 46.03 by .72 of a second. Ress was the second finisher for IU in the 200-yard individual medley after placing 19th with a time of 1:44.58, following Miller’s third place finish.Teammate junior James Wells hit the wall in 1:43.72, good for 30th place. On the first day of competition, two school records were broken. In the 50-yard freestyle, Daniel Kanorr swam to ninth place with a time of 19.42 in the A final. In the platform competition, junior Conor Murphy scored 422.15 points and finished third. This is the best finish for the Hoosiers since Mark Lenzi placed second in 1990. In the platform final, junior Emad Abdelatif ended the event in 19th with a score of 316.45 points followed by sophomore Danton Rogers in 20th with a score of 306.95 points. An era of diving has ended. This was the last NCAA Championships coached by IU Diving Coach Jeff Huber. In his last NCAA Championships trip, Huber had three divers finish in the top three in the men’s and women’s meets combined. “It was amazing getting to work with Coach Huber for this time,” Schmidt said. “A turning point in my career was last winter, when we had nationals at Tennessee, and I had a disastrous meet,” he said. “He walked me to the end of the pool and ripped me a new one in a harsh but good way.” Representing IU in the relay events, a team of Wells, Miller, Schmuhl and Kanorr touched the wall in ninth place with a time of 3:08.40, a new school record in the 400-yard medley relay. In the 800-yard freestyle relay, Schmuhl, Barbiere, Matt Gerth and Ress combined to place 11th with a time of 6:23.31. “We had three relays in the B final,” Looze said. “What we really need to work on is getting our relays in the A final.”
(03/28/13 1:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Junior Eric Ress said he will never forget what happened on March 23, 2012.It was a life-altering moment — something that fundamentally challenged his life-long dedication to the sport of swimming.On that day, Ress swam in the 200-meter backstroke finals at the Elite French Championships, the qualifying meet for the 2012 Olympics. He was swimming in lane five next to Benjamin Stasiulis, a medalist at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in the same event.The two were expected to finish atop the standings and earn a fast enough time to clinch a spot on the French Olympic team. After Ress had spent months of training with his teammates at IU for this exact moment, it was his time to shine.The result went according to plan for Stasiulis — he swam a 1:56.39 to break the national record. When Ress touched the wall, he was the second to do so. All he needed to see when he looked up at the scoreboard was a time of 1:58.48, and he had qualified for the Olympics. He had done it plenty of times before.It read 1:58.78.From that moment, Ress’ entire swimming career had changed.***For those who may not know him, Ress is a fifth-year junior on IU’s swimming and diving team. He redshirted the 2009-10 season after tearing his ACL in September 2009 and then was granted an Olympic redshirt in the 2011-12 season.In the April after his first redshirt — what would have been his sophomore year of eligibility — Ress won the 2010 French national championship in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 1:58.54. He finished eighth in the 2010 European Aquatic Championships.Only one year later at the 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, he ended his sophomore season as the runner-up in both the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke events.Then came a decision that Ress dreaded. As it turned out, the 2012 NCAA Championships coincided with the 2012 Elite French Championships, the qualifying event for the Olympics. Ress would have to choose to participate in either one or the other. Upon deciding to come to IU in the fall of 2008, Ress had made an agreement with his coaches that, no matter what, the ultimate goal would be for him to end up in the Olympics. However, Ress did not want to miss out on the collegiate season. He said he felt like he would be letting the entire team down had he chosen to take the season off to focus on long-course training instead of the collegiate short-course model.“But it was the opposite,” Ress said. “I’ve never seen a group of guys so supportive. They wanted to see me be at the best level of swimming I can be at.”With the help of his coaches, Ress made the decision to take the 2011-12 season off as he trained for his Olympics opportunity. He trained alongside his teammates, but he was not going to meets with them anymore. When Ress competed in France, his teammates were halfway across the globe in Federal Way, Wash., helping IU to its best finish at the NCAA Championships since 2008.“Seeing that kind of thing really justified my decision,” Ress said. “I didn’t get to swim, but at the same time, it’s helped me because the level of competition is so much better this year.”***After Ress finished his swim in the 200-meter backstroke at the Elite French Championships, his first reaction was to look up at the scoreboard. He had broken the required time in practice and twice in similar events.That day in March wasn’t one of them. All that time. All that effort. And Ress was .3 seconds short.“My biggest thing was that I was going to keep my composure,” Ress said. “I was going to not let everyone see how upset I was.”When he got out of the pool, the media had already focused in on Stasiulis, the new French record-holder. When Ress passed by, one journalist managed to ask him how he was feeling. He responded in the only way he said was possible: “I’m sorry, I really don’t have anything to say right now. I need to go have time to myself.”By the time Ress had finally reached his family, his mother was in tears and his father and sister were both visibly shaken. Then-IU teammate Margaux Farrell, who was also swimming in the meet, and her mother were also by his side. The two families had been close since both Ress and Farrell were in middle school.“It was really devastating, and it was sad for all of us,” Farrell said. “I remember crying, his sister cried, our parents cried. You come so close to something like that, and it was a weird position to be in.”In the days and weeks following the result, Ress said he didn’t have that burning desire to swim. He had qualified for the 2012 European Aquatics Championships, but instead he wanted to take the rest of the spring to focus on school and go from there step-by-step.However, after talking with his father, Colin, a former IU swimmer and Olympian himself, he said he came to an understanding that this result was not the “be all, end all.” He had seen other swimmers at the Elite French Championships fall short, and he had seen them get really upset. He realized that how he would bounce back from this disappointment would be the ultimate test as to what kind of swimmer he really was.“In life, you’re dealt a hand, and you have to play it regardless,” Ress said. “It’s not like I could have asked for a do-over. It’s all about facing adversity.“This is going to sound really cliché, but it’s like the phoenix rising from the ashes. You have to come back hungry.”Ress did just that. Though he did not make it out of the semi-finals at the European Championships in May, he finished third at the 2012 U.S. Open at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis in August. His time of 1:58.42 in the finals would have qualified him for the 2012 Olympics had he raced that in France.“It validated that what I was doing here was working,” Ress said. “If I focus less on what everyone else is doing around me and worry about my own race and getting to the wall faster, good things will happen.”***Ress returned to the collegiate swimming ranks on Oct. 19, 2012, in a dual meet against Kentucky and Tennessee. He won three of the four events in which he swam, including both the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes.But at the Big Ten Championships only a month ago, Ress lost the 100-yard backstroke final to teammate junior James Wells and then fell .24 seconds short to Wisconsin’s Andrew Teduits in the 200-yard backstroke. He did not win a single event.Starting today, Ress will swim in the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. They will be held in the same facility in which he finished third at the U.S. Open — the IU Natatorium.Though Ress said he feels more physically and mentally ready for this meet than he has been in the past two years, IU Coach Ray Looze said he hopes Ress is “flying under the radar” to the rest of the competition. “Maybe these people are writing him off, and I hope they do,” Looze said. “Because if they do, he’s a lion waiting in the weeds. And that’s a dangerous thing to be.” There is no doubt that Ress is a different swimmer than what he used to be. No longer is he aiming for a certain time, but instead he is shooting for a title. This season and next season will not be the last for Ress, either. Call it a dream deferred, but he said he has already made it clear that swimming in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is his goal. He has Looze’s full support. Though so much has happened in his life over the past two years, one thing is known: The complete story of Ress’ swimming career has yet to be told.“Not making the team makes me hungry for it,” Ress said. “It also gave me a reality check, though, because if I had put all of my eggs into one basket, then if you have failure, it’s going to be tough. “But if you prepare for other venues and other goals of yours, if you fall short in one aspect, you’re still going to achieve something down the line.”
(03/28/13 1:52am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ten swimmers, three alternates and four divers must rise to the occasion this weekend.The IU men’s swimming and diving team will compete in the 2013 NCAA Championships beginning today and ending Saturday at the IU Natatorium and IU-Purdue University Indianapolis Sports Complex in Indianapolis. After their performance at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, the Hoosiers lead all schools with four diving entries. The diving championships took place March 14-16 in West Lafayette, Ind. Eric Ress is set to compete in the 100 backstroke, 200 individual medley and the 200 backstroke. “Personally I’m looking to final in multiple events and be in the mix for top-three finishes,” Ress said. “The depth of the NCAA this season has definitely gotten deeper, and I’m looking forward to racing.”With the majority of the IU men confident they would grasp invites or at least have the intention of dropping time to get invited, the team was able to construct a solid plan for how to approach conference and NCAAs. “Diving is also a huge advantage going into the meet,” Ress said. “With four divers, all of whom are able to score, we have a lot more depth in those three events compared to most teams.”Senior Darian Schmidt finished second on the 1-meter springboard at the Zone C Diving Championships to qualify for NCAAs.Juniors Conor Murphy and Danton Rogers went 1-2 in the platform event to qualify, while Emad Abdelatif earned his first trip to the NCAAs after placing fourth on the 1-meter. Murphy finished the 2013 Big Ten Championships with a Big Ten title in the platform and a new school record. On the other hand, the Hoosiers may have a disadvantage or two. “A disadvantage might be that we have a lot of young swimmers going, but in the long run it really sets up the team well for future success,” Stephen Schmuhl said. Schmuhl will be swimming in the 200 individual medley, 400 individual medley and the 200 butterfly. As the only distance swimmer heading to NCAAs, Schmuhl has spent the past few weeks training alone. Cody Miller will be a significant threat during the competition. He will be swimming in the 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley. At the 2013 Big Ten Championships, Miller dominated these events and brought home Big Ten titles in each one. Although the Hoosiers placed second at the 2013 Big Ten Championships with 664 points, the team hopes to improve upon its performance and take home a NCAA title. The IU team has big shoes to fill. From 1968 to 1973, the Hoosiers won the team title, and throughout NCAA history, Hoosiers have won 80 individual and relay NCAA titles. “The bulk of the hard work this season is over, and the last few weeks are mostly about keeping nerves down, fine-tuning and getting motivated for the week of racing,” Ress said. Tune into ESPN3 Live Streaming Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. ET to watch IU throughout the championships.
(03/26/13 8:55pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU junior Lindsay Vrooman has been named Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday.Vrooman
was named Swimmer of the Big Ten Championships in February after she
won conference titles in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle and the 800 free
relay. She set Big Ten meet records in both individual events and helped IU set a meet record in the relay.“The
entire Indiana coaching staff is humbled to have Lindsay Vrooman named
the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year,” IU Coach Ray Looze said in a press
release. “Not only is she one of our captains but has been a rock of
consistency over the course of the season. “Her work ethic,
kindness and selfless contribution to our squad cannot be measured
adequately. What we most admire in her is the total determination she
displays in all aspects of her life. This trait will serve her well into
the future.”At the NCAA Championships last week, Vrooman earned All-American honors in the 500 freestyle and mile. Her
mile time of 15:50.83 broke the school record she set at the Big Ten
Championships, while her time of 4:36.41 in the 500 was the
second-fastest in school history.This is the second year in a row that an IU women’s swimmer has won the award after Allysa Varva won last year. Vrooman
joins Varva (2012), Kate Fesenko (2009, 2010) and Susan Woessner (2002)
as Hoosiers to be named Big Ten Swimmer of the Year. — Joe Popely
(03/25/13 4:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Although the Hoosiers nearly missed a top-10 finish at the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, the IU women’s team earned several top finishes and placed record times individually. Scoring 115 points and achieving their 10th consecutive top-15 finish at the NCAA Championships, the Hoosiers earned their best finish since 2010 as they swam and dove to 11th place. Georgia came out as the victor at the conclusion of the meet with a score of 477 points and took home the national title. “I thought it was a great performance by the Hoosiers,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “The girls showed grit. They showed determination. They were passionate about what they were doing.”For IU, junior Lindsay Vrooman completed her standout season on a high note. The veteran distance swimmer demolished her previous school record of 15:51.20 in the 1,650-yard freestyle on Saturday by .47 of a second in a third-place finish of 15:50.83. Vrooman is one of two IU swimmers to ever record a time below 16 minutes in the event. Not only did she break a school record in the 1,650-yard freestyle, but she also made her mark in the 1,000-yard freestyle after she broke the school record with a split of 9:37.74. “She is the rock of this team, and I told her that after the race,” Looze said. “She wanted to win the national title in that race and, Lindsay being Lindsay, she wasn’t real happy with it. But it is her best times and it is her highest finish at the NCAA Championships.”“You have to celebrate every little step of the way even if they are not as big of celebrations as you would like."On the first day of competition, Vrooman swam the 500-yard freestyle in 4:36.41 and placed fifth in the nation. Her time was the second-fastest in school history and earned All-American honors. In the 200-yard backstroke on Saturday, freshman Brooklyn Snodgrass cut .4 of a second off her preliminary time to touch the wall in the finals at 1:52.12. The All-American time earned Snodgrass a seventh-place finish. A day earlier, Snodgrass finished third place in the 100-yard backstroke in 51.52 to earn an NCAA All-American honor and a personal career-best time.“It feels awesome to go to such a big competition and have performances that rank amongst the best in the nation,” Snodgrass said. “I am excited that I still have three years left.”Sophomore Allie Day hit the wall in 1:54.42, good for 21st place. Sophomores Cynthia Pammett came in 25th with a time of 1:55.05, Dorina Szekeres 28th (1:55.23) and Justine Ress 36th (1:56.12). In the 200-yard butterfly, junior Brenna MacLean just missed a top-ten finish. After touching the wall with a split of 1:55.68 and earning honorable mention All-American, MacLean had an 11th place finish. For the women divers, senior Amy Cozad had the highest finish in the platform event. She placed third with 325.20 points, an All-American mark. “I think at one point this season we were ranked 22nd and that’s the kind of respect we were getting by the coaches that vote on that poll but this is the only national ranking that matters,” Looze said. “It’s the final one.”“I couldn’t be more pleased with the way they responded.” While most of the Hoosier women are done with the 2012-2013 season, a break is not in store for a few of the swimmers. Canadian natives junior Bronwyn Pasloski, Pammett, MacLean and Snodgrass are going to the World Trials Victoria qualifying meet next week in Victoria, Canada, Looze said.They will all swim for a chance to participate in the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona and the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia.“They are going to head up there with Coach Tommy Brush and hopefully do a really good job and try to get on some international teams for the summer,” Looze said. “But otherwise, everybody else is going to take a little time off, get caught back up on school, and then get ready for their training for the summer.”
(03/24/13 7:24pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Although the Hoosiers nearly missed a top-10 finish at the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, the IU women’s team earned several top finishes and placed record times individually. Scoring 115 points and achieving their 10th consecutive top 15 finish at the NCAA Championships, the Hoosiers earned their best finish since 2010 as they swam and dove to 11th place. Georgia came out as the victor at the conclusion of the meet with a score of 477 points and took home the national title. “I thought it was a great performance by the Hoosiers,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “The girls showed grit, they showed determination, they were passionate about what they were doing.”For IU, junior Lindsay Vrooman completed her standout season on a high note. The veteran distance swimmer demolished her previous school record of 15:51.20 in the 1,650-yard freestyle on Saturday by .47 of a second in a third-place finish of 15:50.83. Vrooman is one of two IU swimmers to ever record a time below 16 minutes in the event. Not only did she break a school record in the 1,650-yard freestyle, but she also made her mark in the 1,000-yard freestyle after she broke the school record with a split of 9:37.74. “She is the rock of this team, and I told her that after the race,” Looze said. “She wanted to win the national title in that race and, Lindsay being Lindsay, she wasn’t real happy with it. But it is her best times and it is her highest finish at the NCAA Championships.”“You have to celebrate every little step of the way even if they are not as big of celebrations as you would like,” he said. On the first day of competition, Vrooman swam the 500-yard freestyle in 4:36.41 and placed fifth in the nation.Her time was the second-fastest in school history and earned All-American honors. In the 200-yard backstroke on Saturday, freshman Brooklyn Snodgrass cut .4 of a second off her preliminary time to touch the wall in the finals at 1:52.12. The All-American time earned Snodgrass a seventh-place finish. A day earlier, Snodgrass finished third place in the 100-yard backstroke in 51.52 to earn an NCAA All-American honor and a personal career-best time.“It feels awesome to go to such a big competition and have performances that rank amongst the best in the nation,” Snodgrass said. “I am excited that I still have three years left.”Sophomore Allie Day hit the wall in 1:54.42, good for 21st place. Sophomores Cynthia Pammett came in 25th with a time of 1:55.05, Dorina Szekeres 28th (1:55.23) and Justine Ress 36th (1:56.12). In the 200-yard butterfly, junior Brenna MacLean just missed a top-ten finish. After touching the wall with a split of 1:55.68 and earning honorable mention All-American, MacLean had an 11th place finish. For the women divers, senior Amy Cozad had the highest finish in the platform event. She placed third with 325.20 points, an All-American mark. “I think at one point this season we were ranked 22nd and that’s the kind of respect we were getting by the coaches that vote on that poll but this is the only national ranking that matters,” Looze said. “It’s the final one.”“I couldn’t be more pleased with the way they responded,” he said. While most of the Hoosier women are done with the 2012-2013 season, a break is not in store for a few of the swimmers. IU swimmers and Canadian natives junior Bronwyn Pasloski, sophomore Cynthia Pammett, MacLean and Snodgrass are going to the World Trials Victoria qualifying meet next week in Victoria, Canada, Looze said.They will all swim for a chance to participate in the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona and the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia.“They are going to head up there with Coach Tommy Brush and hopefully do a really good job and try to get on some international teams for the summer,” Looze said. “But otherwise, everybody else is going to take a little time off, get caught back up on school, and then get ready for their training for the summer.”