No. 2/5 Indiana’s Stars Shine at CSL Match 5

Friday, October 16

Walnut, Calif.

8:30 p.m.

Indiana University

College Swimming League

10/16/2026 11:30:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 2/5 Indiana won 11 events, scored 469.83 points and placed second in College Swimming League Match 5, its second meet of the brand-new fall tournament, on Friday (Oct. 17) night inside the Mt. SAC Aquatic Center in Walnut, California.

With a win, in its first match, and Friday's second place finish, Indiana is almost certainly assured a spot in CSL's postseason. Following results of six matches between 12 teams, three teams will automatically qualify for the Championship Match, and four more for the Wild Card Match. The winner of the Wild Card match advances to the championship. The IU Natatorium in Indianapolis will host both meets, November 5-6.

The Hoosiers finished behind No. 7/9 NC State (469.83) and in front of No. 4/7 Cal (394.33) and No. 8/2 Stanford (311).

Liberty Clark earned MVP honors for the meet after repeating her wins from round one. The second-year Hoosier won all three of her events – the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle.

Classmate Alex Shackell won the honor for Match 1, and she was nearly equally impressive in Match 5. Shackell swept the butterfly events and then contributed to Indiana's Super Skins win at the end of the meet.

The Indiana women have won the Super Skins 200-yard medley relay now at both CSL meets. The quartet of Miranda Grana, Anita Bottazzo, Shackell and Grace Hoeper was again the last relay standing through four reps of the medley relay.

Bottazzo and NC State's Eneli Jefimova had great battles in the breaststroke events. NC State elected to swim breaststroke in the 50-yard skins event and nearly regretted it, as Bottazzo took the Wolfpack swimmer to the end – within three tenths in each race leading up to the final, where Jefimova took a half-second win. But Bottazzo got her revenge in the 100-yard breaststroke individual event, touching in 58.25 to beat the reigning NCAA Champion.

Josh Bey also took down a reigning NCAA Champion in the men's 200-yard breaststroke. He had a great battle with Cal's Yamato Okadome, taking the lead in the back half of the race before stopping the clock in 1:51.36 to Okadome's 1:51.82.

On the men's side, Raekwon Noel won the 200-yard butterfly to complete IU's sweep of the event with Shackell. Miroslav Knedla touched first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 45.35.

Freshman Lylah Theriac announced herself to the college swimming world with her win in the 200 IM. Her 1:55.74 shows a near four-second drop from her pre-college best, 1:59.66. She notably beat NC State's Caroline Bricker, a two-time All-American in the 200 IM and an NCAA Champion in the 400 IM.

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Indiana will host USC and Kentucky next Friday, October 23, in dual meet action.

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