Indiana women finish fourth, win two national titles at NCAA championship meet
The Indiana women's swimming and diving team had a program best fourth-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championship.
Virginia won its fifth-straight Division 1 title (544 points) at the four-day meet finishing ahead of Stanford (417 points) and Texas (394 points).
The Hoosiers set program records with 312 points, seven medals — seniors Sklyer Liu (platform) and Anna Peplowski (200 freestyle) both won national titles — and 38 All-America honors (top 16 finish). The only other Big Ten team to finish in the top 10 was Michigan (ninth place).
Liu propelled IU to fourth place over Tennessee on Saturday with her national title. After earning bronze on the 3-meter springboard on Friday, Liu won the platform diving with a score of 382.15. The four-time Big Ten Champion gave the Hoosiers their third platform title in five years.
Peplowski won Indiana's first freestyle championship in the 200-free on Friday by out-touching USC senior Minna Abraham by six hundredths of a second (1:40.50). She broke her own Big Ten and program record with a time that ranks No. 7 all-time.
She also won her second straight bronze in the 500-freestyle
Peplowski, who won a silver medal in the 4x200 freestyle relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, closed out her career as a 21-time All-American and eight-time Big Ten Champion. She earned All-American honors in six different events this year.
Indiana's other medalists were Brearna Crawford in the 200-yard breaststroke (bronze), Ching Hwee Gan in the 1,650-yard freestyle (bronze) and Miranda Grana in the 100-yard backstroke (bronze).
Crawford had the third-fastest time in program history (2:05.66) in the 200-yard breaststroke — it was her first time going sub 2:06 — in her first career championship final. Gan earned her third-straight NCAA medal in the 1,650-yard freestyle and beat out an 11-year-old program record (15:42.40).
Grana set a program record in the 100-yard backstroke (49.62) as the first Hoosiers swimmer to break the 50-second barrier. She also finished fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (best in program history) and the 400-yard medley relay.
The success came on the heels of Indiana finishing second at the 2025 Big Ten Women's Swimming Championship and leading the conference with eight Big Ten titles and 18 medals.
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times and Zach Osterman is the Indiana beat reporter for the IndyStar. You can follow them on X @michaelniziolekand @zachosterman.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Indiana women have program-best finish at NCAA championship meet
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