Hoosiers compete at US diving championships
Last weekend, the IU diving team continued its summer competition in Greensboro, N.C. in the AT&T USA Diving National Championships, taking home several top-10 finishes.
Last weekend, the IU diving team continued its summer competition in Greensboro, N.C. in the AT&T USA Diving National Championships, taking home several top-10 finishes.
Several IU swimmers featured their talents at the 2012 U.S. Open Swimming Championships at the IU-Purdue University Indianapolis Natatorium last week.
Former IU diver Christina Loukas finished eighth in the Olympic 3-meter springboard finals Sunday afternoon in London. In Beijing in 2008, she placed ninth in the same event.
Recent graduate Margaux Farrell swam the second leg of the women's preliminary 4x200 freestyle relay for Team France Wednesday morning, helping her team to a third place finish in the first heat and a spot in the finals.
In only a few weeks’ time, former IU diver Christina Loukas will mount her second challenge for a gold medal, knowing full well that a shot at diving’s Holy Grail — her “next year” — will not come again until 2016.
Indiana University graduate and 2008 NCAA Champion Ben Hesen came up just short of making the U.S. Olympic team, finishing fourth in the 100-meter backstroke finals Wednesday at the USA Swimming Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb.
Former Hoosier All-American and 2008 NCAA Champion Ben Hesen, has qualified for the 100-meter backstroke finals at the USA Swimming Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb.
IU Athlete of the Year Allysa Vavra came up two-tenths of a second short of advancing past the 400-meter individual medley preliminary round yesterday at the USA Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Neb.
The 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Diving Trials came to a close with one former Hoosier, Christina Loukas, qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics after her second place finish in the senior women’s 3m springboard competition.
Recent IU graduate Margaux Farrell has already punched her ticket to this summer’s Olympics, but she might not be the last Hoosier swimmer that makes it to London. Farrell will swim for the French team, but starting Monday, 16 current and former IU swimmers will attempt to make the United States team at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb.
Led by 2009 graduate Christina Loukas, who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, multiple Hoosiers have booked spots in the finals of their events at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Diving Trials, putting them one step closer to competing in London.
On April 28, Special Olympics Indiana-Monroe County will have a fundraiser dinner and silent auction at AMVETS Post 2000 at 5227 W. Airport Rd. in Bloomington.
IU diving legend Mark Lenzi has died at the age of 43. A 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 3-meter, Lenzi was hospitalized in critical condition March 28 for fainting spells and a dangerously low blood pressure of 78/48, according to Fredericksburg.com. He was unable to survive and passed away Monday morning.
Senior Margaux Farrell qualified for the 4X200 freestyle relay team at the French National Championships this past week in Dunkerque, France. Farrell’s journey to the Olympics has been a balance between academics and her sport.
Heading into the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way, Wash., IU junior diver Zac Nees said the team’s goal would be to finish in the top 10 in the standings when it was all said and done.
Coming off last season’s 18th-place finish at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, led by then-sophomore Eric Ress’ two runner-up finishes in both the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, the IU men’s swimming and diving team will have to look elsewhere this year to earn points.
In addition to sweeping the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform dives, the Hoosiers will send four of their elite competitors to Federal Way, Wash., for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships from Thursday through Saturday.
Both Darian Schmidt and Zac Nees will advance to the NCAA Championships from March 22-24 after both finished in the top three in the 3-meter diving competition.
Starting Thursday, IU’s diving team will compete in the 2012 NCAA Zone C Diving Championships in Bloomington with the potential for divers to qualify for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships later this month.
Only one day before trying to qualify for the Olympic Trials in one of her favorite events, the 100-meter freestyle, IU sophomore swimmer Sara Delay found herself in the hospital with her life about to change.