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(12/04/11 3:25am)
The swimmers of the IU swimming and diving team completed day two of the Georgia Invitational on Saturday, as multiple swimmers entered the record books and kept both the men and women in the top five of the standings.
(12/03/11 1:31am)
Senior Allysa Vavra set the IU record in the 200 yard Individual Medley (1:56.80) today in a third-place finish, as the Hoosiers closed out it's first day of the Georgia Invitational in high-quality form.
(12/02/11 5:05am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In its last meet of the 2011 portion of the season, the IU swimming and diving team will travel to Athens, Ga., this weekend as the Hoosiers participate in the Georgia Invitational, one of the toughest meets in the nation this early in the season.The Hoosiers’ competition will be staunch — on the men’s side, No. 14 IU (4-2) will face four top-10 opponents, including No. 5 Auburn, defending national champion No. 6 California, No. 9 Georgia and No. 7 Florida’s diving team.The women’s team (3-3) will also compete against ranked teams, facing No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 California, No. 6 Auburn and No. 4 Florida’s diving team.“This is probably the highest-level invitational that’s being offered the first semester in the NCAA,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “It’s going to be a huge challenge, but it’s going to replicate what we’ll face in NCAAs, where we’ll have the best of the best all come together and compete.”The men’s swimming and diving team is coming off a double dual meet sweep of now-No. 21 Virginia and Penn State.It was the first time this season the Hoosiers dominated competition in their meet, winning 13 of the 18 events conducted, including both diving competitions. The Hoosiers hope to impose their will once again. This time, however, it will be against some of the top competition in the nation.IU will meet Virginia again this weekend with UNC-Wilmington and the diving team for Maryland.“Our guys are prepared to swim fast this weekend, and as long as we stay calm under pressure and make the right moves, we’ll get some wins,” sophomore Cody Miller said. “There is no reason we can’t be a top-10 team this year. We’re going to make it happen."On the women’s side two weeks ago, the Hoosiers beat Penn State and lost to now-No. 18 Virginia, splitting the meet. IU garnered only four wins throughout the competition.The IU women’s team will also face Virginia again, UNC-Wilmington, Harvard and the diving teams of No. 19 Maryland.“This meet is really going to give our athletes a good taste of what that’s like and how it can be distracting when you have a lot of fast people around you,” Looze said. “We are going to have to deal with not leading races and we will have to fight through from being behind, potentially.”Despite the tough test, Looze said that what is most important is the experience the team will gain, participating with some of the top competition in the nation.“The teams we are facing are all fantastic programs who are the golden standard in college swimming right now,” Looze said. “Any time that you can go up against them, win or lose, you’re going to be better with the experience.”
(12/01/11 5:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Juniors Eric Ress and Ryan Hinshaw will lead a small group of IU swimmers in the 2011 AT&T Winter National Championships today to Saturday in Atlanta. The championships are a lead-up event to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials June 25 to July 2 in Omaha, Neb. Swimmers who race at a qualifying time during the meet will be entered into the Olympic Trials competition. “It’s always a tremendous honor to be representing IU in these types of competitions,” IU Coach Ray Looze said. “With the athletes we have going trying to qualify for standards, I’m sure they’ll do a great job and come away representing IU successfully.”Other Hoosiers participating in the meet include junior Afton Robiertson and freshman Dorina Szekeres, the current Hungarian 200-meter backstroke champion. IU graduates Ben Hesen, Kevin Swander and Kate Fesenko will also participate in the meet. Ress will not represent IU in the competition, as he is sitting the season out to train for the French Olympic Trials.The remainder of the IU swimming and diving team will participate in the Georgia Invitational this weekend in Athens, Ga. That meet will pit the Hoosiers against, among other teams, the defending men’s and women’s national champions, California, and the women’s current No. 1 team, Georgia.
(11/22/11 11:52pm)
Junior Zac Nees was awarded today as Big Ten Diver of the Week for the first time in his career, only a few days after his first career diving sweep in the No. 14 IU's (4-2) double dual-meet victories against No. 21 Virginia and Penn State.
(11/21/11 3:05am)
After being swept by No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Texas earlier this month,
the men’s swimming and diving team returned to dominate the pool,
winning 13 of 18 events. The women’s team collected four wins during the two-day meet.
(11/19/11 3:16am)
Taking on Penn State and Virginia in a double dual-meet at Penn State, the No. 14 IU men's and women's swimming and diving teams completed their first day of action in the pool, as competition will resume tomorrow at 11 A.M.
(11/18/11 5:16am)
Both the men’s and women’s teams will travel to State College, Pa., for a
double dual meet Friday and Saturday against Penn State and Virginia.
(11/15/11 2:46am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Now in his 23rd season as the head diving coach for the IU swimming and diving team, Jeff Huber has had a career that few others have attained.During his tenure at IU, Huber has led the Hoosiers to 13 U.S. Diving Combined Team National Championships and has coached divers to 72 All-American individual honors, five NCAA individual titles and 41 individual Big Ten titles.In addition to the success in the pool, Huber has been named the U.S. National Coach of the Year 11 times, was named Big Ten Coach of the Year 13 times and has been a coach on the U.S. Olympic diving team for the last three Olympiads. Most recently, Huber served as a member of the diving coaching staff for the United States during the 2011 Pan American Games.Huber, who dove at Wisconsin and graduated in 1975, said his career successes might never have happened if not for a volunteer coaching position at a community college in California.“I always knew I wanted to be a teacher, but I really decided on becoming a coach full-time after volunteering for two years at Cypress College in Southern California,” Huber said. “Before that, I actually planned to be an English teacher.”Before coming to IU, Huber coached divers at Nebraska for 11 years, where he won Big Eight Coach of the Year five times. He was also the coach for 27 Big Eight individual titles. Since coming to Bloomington, Huber said he cherished every moment as his career continued to bloom.“Being a Hoosier has meant being a part of a very special University and college town,” Huber said. “My wife is an assistant professor at IU. Our daughter graduated from IU, and our son is a senior at IU. We feel like we are a part of something special and really worthwhile here.”Huber has overseen the emergence of many divers during his career at IU, including Olympic gold medalist Mark Lenzi and NCAA Champions Christina Loukas, Kimiko Harai-Soldati and Cassandra Cardinell. He has also overseen national champion divers junior Amy Cozad, sophomore Laura Ryan and graduate Sara Reiling-Hildebrand.However, Huber said some of his greatest successes have come in the development of lesser-known divers, such as junior Zac Nees, who won his first career dual-meet event on the 1-meter springboard competition during the Nov. 4 meet against Michigan and Texas.“Seeing guys like Zac Nees coming into prominence is very intrinsically rewarding,” Huber said. “That is why I got into teaching. I have some very talented divers with big goals, and my challenge is to do my job correctly and help them reach their goals and see their dreams come true.”Huber said it is the untapped potential of such talent that keeps him coming back as he stays committed to bringing out the best in all of his athletes.“The biggest impact Coach Huber has had on me is to set goals and reflect on my progress toward everything I do,” Nees said. “He is also very good at having the staff working together to keep my outlook positive during competition, even after a missed dive.”Huber is now a member of the Indiana Swimming and Diving Wall of Fame and has coached divers from their first steps onto a college campus to the pinnacle of international competition.“All those accolades next to my name really do not mean much to me,” Huber said. “As I told my wife many years ago, if it is just about winning and medals, I don’t want to coach. Fame is fleeting, and medals tarnish. Character is forever.”
(11/07/11 5:03am)
The men’s swimming and diving team (2-2) went in to Ann Arbor, Mich.,
and lost against Michigan and Texas in a double-dual meet. The Hoosiers
fell to Michigan, 216-84 and lost to Texas 217.5-82.5.
(11/06/11 2:30am)
The IU men's swimming and diving team (2-2) never found their comfort zone in the pool on Saturday, as the Hoosiers fell to Michigan 216-84, and Texas 217.5-82.5, in the double dual-meet held in Ann Arbor, Mich.
(11/04/11 4:01am)
On Saturday, the Hoosiers will compete in Ann Arbor, Mich., as the men’s
team will face Michigan (3-0) and Texas (0-0) in a double-dual meet
beginning at noon.
(11/02/11 5:52am)
After finishing in third place in the 400-meter Individual Medley race at the Pan American Games, senior Allysa Vavra hopes that her success will translate into a strong future in swimming.
(11/02/11 5:33am)
Coming off of a career-first performance in last week's double-dual meet against Michigan and Texas, sophomore diver Laura Ryan earned her second consecutive Big Ten Diver of the Week award.
(11/02/11 1:25am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Two weeks ago, 1,600 miles away and 5,000 feet above sea level in a foreign nation, senior swimmer Allysa Vavra had what she calls a career breakthrough.Competing with fellow Hoosier sophomore Brenna MacLean and junior diver Amy Cozad in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Vavra won the bronze medal in the 400-meter individual medley in a time of 4:48.05, though she led for almost half the race. The Pan-Am Games are the second-largest international sporting games behind the Summer Olympics.It was the first time in her career she had even competed for the United States in such a large, international competition. “Representing Team USA has really been an honor,” Vavra said. “It was really unexpected, too, since I only finished fourth at nationals, and they normally give out invitations to be part of the national team for only the top-two finishers. But at the same time, it has been a dream come true for me.”Now, back in Bloomington and swimming for the IU women’s swimming and diving team, Vavra has some unfinished business she wants to take care of, she said. Last year, she won the 200- and 400-yard individual medley races at the Big Ten Championships and set the Big Ten record for the 400-yard.“The Big Ten meet last year was really special for me but not because I won my events and earned a Big Ten record,” Vavra said. “It was more about having my peers and all of my family there at the same time, being there to support me. Especially since my family lives in Pennsylvania, having all those people there made it that much more special.”Vavra has yet to win an NCAA championship, her goal for the season. When the season ends, her attention will turn to qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics, where she will participate in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in from June 25 to July 2, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. Her time in the 400-meter individual medley at the Pan-Am Games eclipsed the U.S. Olympic standard for that race by nearly seven seconds.“I feel like participating in the Pan-Am Games gave me an opportunity to break out on an international level and took me from being on a national-class to a world-class stage,” Vavra said. “It was also a good opportunity to race in front of a lot of people, with the atmosphere and pressure sort of mimicking how it will be at Olympic trials.”Participating in the Pan-Am Games also gave Vavra an opportunity to race against some of the best swimmers in the world, including Brazilian Joanna Maranhao and American Julia Smit, who holds the record in the short-course version of the 400-meter individual medley. However, Vavra said she could be swimming next to Michael Phelps and still not be phased.“I don’t put any other swimmers on a pedestal,” Vavra said. “I really like to look at it like everyone is just any other swimmer, and anyone is beatable any day. I just have to believe in myself.”Along with junior swimmer Eric Ress, who is redshirting the season for training purposes for the French Olympic Trials, Vavra is among a group of Hoosiers that have an opportunity to make the 2012 London Olympics. Though trials are months away and the collegiate season is just underway, the looming events are within reach.“If I were to make the Olympics, it has been one of my dreams from ever since I first started swimming when I was 8 or 9 and watching it on TV,” Vavra said. “I don’t really talk about it that much because I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself, but it’s always in the back of my mind. “I have a unique opportunity this summer to possibly make the team, but all I can do at this point is work hard. I am confident that hard work will take me where I need to go.”
(11/01/11 1:03am)
IU Swimming and Diving Head Coach Ray Looze has been selected to the Team USA men's coaching staff for the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool, on December 16-17, in Atlanta, Ga.
(10/31/11 4:39am)
The women’s swimming and diving team (2-2) traveled to Ann Arbor, Mich.,
on Friday for a double-dual meet against Michigan and Texas, defeating
the Wolverines 178-122 but falling to the Longhorns, last year’s No. 6
team in the nation, 165-133.
(10/28/11 8:07pm)
After career-firsts by diver sophomore Laura Ryan and swimmer freshman Justine Ress, the women's swimming and diving team (2-2) had split results in their dual-meet Friday against Michigan and Texas.
(10/28/11 3:09am)
Swimmers senior Allysa Vavra and sophomore Brenna MacLean are returning from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mex. as medalists in the second-largest international multi-sport games, behind only the Summer Olympics.
(10/28/11 2:00am)
The team will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., for Friday’s meet against Michigan and Texas, which will begin at 11 a.m.