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Clark Makes History with Big Ten Weekly Award Double
2/4/2026 4:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the second time this season, the Big Ten Conference named Liberty Clark both its Swimmer of the Week and Freshman of the Week on Wednesday (Feb. 4).
The awards come as Clark's second swimmer of the week honor and record seventh freshman of the week honor. Clark is the first Big Ten woman to earn nine weekly awards in a single season.
Clark put an exclamation mark on her rookie regular season, helping the No. 9-ranked Hoosiers topple No. 4 Louisville, 161-138, on Friday (Jan. 30). The freshman recorded three program records and three pool records during the meet.
Individually, Clark broke her own school standards in the 50-yard freestyle (21.48) and 100-yard freestyle (46.36), winning the latter. Clark set the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center pool record in the 100 free as well as the 200 free (1:41.35), her second individual win.
In the final event of the meet, Clark led off Indiana's record-shattering 400-yard freestyle relay that set the program and pool records and tied the Big Ten record in 3:08.07. He leadoff (46.38) nearly matched her individual 100 free time and was the quickest of the Hoosier quartet. The crew of Clark, freshmen Grace Hoeper and Alex Shackell and senior Kristina Paegle trimmed 1.74 off the program record time they had set at Michigan three weeks prior.
Clark will get her first taste of collegiate championships later this month when the Hoosiers compete in the Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, February 18-21 in Minneapolis.
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The awards come as Clark's second swimmer of the week honor and record seventh freshman of the week honor. Clark is the first Big Ten woman to earn nine weekly awards in a single season.
Clark put an exclamation mark on her rookie regular season, helping the No. 9-ranked Hoosiers topple No. 4 Louisville, 161-138, on Friday (Jan. 30). The freshman recorded three program records and three pool records during the meet.
Individually, Clark broke her own school standards in the 50-yard freestyle (21.48) and 100-yard freestyle (46.36), winning the latter. Clark set the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center pool record in the 100 free as well as the 200 free (1:41.35), her second individual win.
In the final event of the meet, Clark led off Indiana's record-shattering 400-yard freestyle relay that set the program and pool records and tied the Big Ten record in 3:08.07. He leadoff (46.38) nearly matched her individual 100 free time and was the quickest of the Hoosier quartet. The crew of Clark, freshmen Grace Hoeper and Alex Shackell and senior Kristina Paegle trimmed 1.74 off the program record time they had set at Michigan three weeks prior.
Clark will get her first taste of collegiate championships later this month when the Hoosiers compete in the Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, February 18-21 in Minneapolis.
@IndianaSwimDive
Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men's and women's swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
#NeverDaunted
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