No. 2 Indiana Breaks It Open at Big Tens

Thursday, February 27

Minneapolis, Minn.

6 p.m.

Indiana University

Big Ten Championships - Finals

2/27/2025 11:53:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

Results (PDF)

MINNEAPOLIS – No. 2-ranked Indiana opened a 126.5-point lead on Thursday (Feb. 27), the second day of the 2025 Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Jane K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

IU's day included three conference titles, six medals, two program records and a meet record. Indiana's three event winners were all first-time Big Ten Champions.

"It was a great night for the Hoosiers with three individual wins and multiple additions to our NCAA roster," IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. "We still have room to improve on relays."

Junior Owen McDonald became the first Hoosier to break the 1:40 barrier in his 200-yard IM championship, setting the Big Ten Championship and IU program record in 1:39.89. It also ranks No. 2 in the country this season. McDonald beat the 2024 champion, Michigan senior Gal Groumi (1:40.34), to become IU's first 200 IM champion since Vini Lanza won a third consecutive title in 2019.

The sixth-place finisher in 2024, senior Luke Barr touched three hundredths in front of Michigan Colin Geer to grab the bronze medal – his first individual Big Ten medal – in 1:40.62. Barr came into the meet with a 1:41.91 personal best.

Seniors Quinn Henninger and Carson Tyler managed another multiple-medal performance on the 1-meter springboard. A six-time Big Ten medalist, Henninger won his first-career Big Ten title with a 414.85 after scoring 69 points or better on five of his six dives. Tyler earned his seventh-career medal, third on 1-meter, finishing third with a 393.30. Indiana divers have won nine of the last 10 Big Ten diving championships between the three events.

Henninger is Indiana's 15th 1-meter diving champion, winning IU's 28th title and 10th in 13 years.

"What a great day for IU swim and dive," IU head diving coach Drew Johansen said. "Quinn joins a long list of 1-meter Big Ten Champions here at IU, and it's so well deserved.

"Carson, [Maxwell Weinrich] and our freshman, Joshua Sollenberger, all raised their games today to help IU get off to a great start in the team standings. We're looking forward to swinging the hammer again tomorrow."

Junior Zalán Sárkány won Indiana's first Big Ten title in the 500-yard freestyle since James Sweeney in 1989. Sárkány's 4:11.62 marked the second-fastest performance in program history, only trailing Marwan Elkamash's 4:10.87 from the 2017 NCAA Championships. Late in the race, Sárkány had to hold off Michigan junior Eduardo Moraes and Minnesota senior Bar Soloveychik, and he did that well. Both pulled within a second of Sárkány at the 450-yard mark, but the Hoosier shut the door with a 24.89 split – both challengers were over 25 seconds.

Junior Matt King neared the program record in the 50-yard freestyle, finishing third in 18.92. King came into the meet at No. 8 in program history (19.24), moved up to sixth in the morning (19.10) and now ranks second to Van Mathias' 18.89 after Thursday night's swim.

King anchored IU's 200-yard freestyle relay that finished fourth despite setting a program record in 1:15.33 – a time that would have won gold one year ago. King had IU's best split, 18.60, as one of three Hoosiers under 19 seconds alongside McDonald (18.81) in the No. 2 spot and senior Finn brooks (18.75) in the three. Sophomore Mikkel Lee led it off in 19.17. Their time broke an almost six-year-old record, the 1:15.41 set by Zach Apple, Bruno Blaskovic, Mohamed Samy and Brandon Hamblin at the 2019 NCAA Championships.

TEAM SCORES
1. Indiana – 526
2. Michigan – 419.5
3. Ohio State – 413
4. USC – 281
5. Wisconsin – 272
6. Northwestern – 262
7. Minnesota – 260
8. Purdue – 223.5
9. Penn State – 153

RESULTS
500 FREESTYLE
1. Zalán Sárkány – 4:11.62 (Big Ten Champion, NCAA B Cut)
19. Rafael Miroslaw – 4:19.19 (NCAA B Cut)

200 IM
1. Owen McDonald – 1:39.89 (Big Ten Champion, Big Ten Championship Record, Program Record, Career Best, NCAA A Cut)
3. Luke Barr – 1:40.62 (Big Ten Bronze, Career Best, NCAA A Cut)
7. Miroslav Knedla – 1:42.67 (NCAA B Cut)
9. Jassen Yep – 1:42.98 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)
10. Brian Benzing – 1:43.01 (NCAA B Cut)
17. Toby Barnett – 1:43.13 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)

50 FREESTYLE
3. Matt King – 18.92 (Big Ten Bronze, NCAA B Cut)
6. Finn Brooks – 19.12 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)
10. Mikkel Lee – 19.07 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)
11. Dylan Smiley – 19.21 (Career Best, NCAA B Cut)
16. Caspar Corbeau – 19.38 (NCAA B Cut)
23. Gavin Wight – 19.69 (NCAA B Cut)

1-METER
1. Quinn Henninger – 414.85 (Big Ten Champion, NCAA Zone Qualifier)
3. Carson Tyler – 393.30 (Big Ten Bronze, NCAA Zone Qualifier)
9. Maxwell Weinrich – 374.35 (NCAA Zone Qualifier)
11. Joshua Sollenberger – 334.45 (NCAA Zone Qualifier)

200 FREESTYLE RELAY
4. Mikkel Lee, Owen McDonald, Finn Brooks, Matt King – 1:15.33 (Program Record, NCAA A Cut)

UP NEXT
Indiana will look to set the tone for a great night when they open day three with the morning preliminary session on Friday beginning at 11 a.m. ET. The 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, 3-meter dive and 400 medley relay will be contested.

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