Indiana-Indiana State Baseball Game Postponed Due to Rain
The Indiana-Indiana State Baseball that was scheduled for 5 pm at Bart Kaufman Field Tuesday was postponed due to rain that hit the Bloomington area all day. Indiana (8-12) will now turn its attention to a three-game series with Evansville (7-12). The Hoosiers and Aces will open the series with a 5 p.m. first pitch on Friday with single games on Saturday (2 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.).
Friday’s game will be the program’s Salute to Service game, with $5 tickets for all active and retired service members. Saturday will be the second Bark in the Park contest at Bart Kaufman Field and Sunday continues to be Family Day at the Park.
Indiana Men’s Swimming Competes in NCAA Championships
Big Ten Champion and Number 4-ranked Indiana men’s swimming and diving will go for an emphatic finish to its season at the 2022 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, tonight thru Saturday inside McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. The competition kicks off at 6 p.m. ET with the finals of the 200 Medley Relay and 800 Freestyle Relay. The entirety of the event will be streamed live on ESPN+.
Twelve athletes, nine swimmers and three divers, from IU are set to appear as individuals in the four-day event. Indiana is also a top-10 seed in all five relays. IU diving secured a total of nine bids from its three athletes. Reigning two-time 3-meter champion Andrew Capobianco is joined by freshmen Quinn Henninger and Carson Tyler. The trio tallied six medals at the Big Ten Championships, with Capobianco winning gold in all three events. Including the five relays, IU has swimmers in 18 events. The 2022 Big Ten Champion in the 100 back, 200 back and 200 fly, junior Brendan Burns will race the 100 back, 100 fly and 200 fly at the national meet. Burns is the No. 1 seeded athlete in the 100 back.
The six-time NCAA Champion IU men’s swimming and diving program has finished top-10 at the national meet in eight of the last nine seasons. For the fifth-straight season, Indiana finished as the top Big Ten team at the NCAA Championships in 2019 – the best stretch for IU since accomplishing the feat for 15 straight seasons from 1964-78. At the 2021 championships, the Hoosiers finished sixth with 207 points and 10 athletes claimed 35 All-America honors. Capobianco won his second straight NCAA title in the 3-meter dive, scoring a career-high 505.20.
In February, the Hoosier men won the program’s fourth Big Ten Championship in six years after a two-year gap, totaling 1,499.5 points. It was the program’s 28th conference title. Capobianco became the first athlete since 2011 to sweep the conference diving titles and repeated as the Big Ten Diver of the Championships. Burns also repeated as the Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships, winning gold in three individual events. On the third day of the event, Burns swam the fastest 100 Backstroke in the country at 44.31 to set a meet record in the event.
Indiana Diver Tarrin Gilliland and Coach Drew Johansen Sweeps CSCAA Awards
Following an emphatic finish at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, Indiana head diving coach Drew Johansen and sophomore diver Tarrin Gilliand were honored for their excellence throughout the 2021-22 season by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America on Tuesday. Johansen was named the CSCAA Women’s Division I Diving Coach of the Year, while Gilliland was picked as the Women’s Division I Diver of the Year. CSCAA announced its women’s postseason awards along with its full list of All-Americans, awarded to student-athletes that made finals at the NCAA Championships. Indiana boasts the second-most All-Americans of any program in the country, with 13 different student-athletes earning at least one honor. Only NCAA Champion Virginia, with 14, had more.
Johansen led the IU women’s divers to a combined seven All-America honors, three medals and 84 points at the national meet. In February, the Hoosier ladies won three medals at the Big Ten Championships. It’s Johansen’s second CSCAA coach of the year selection and first on the women’s side. In 2018, Johansen was named the men’s coach of the year after his group put up an NCAA-best 98 points in IU’s third-place team finish at the national championships.
Gilliland is Indiana’s second athlete to win the diver of the year award after Christina Loukas earned the selection in 2009. The sophomore finished the season with her second straight NCAA Platform National Championship, becoming just the second athlete ever to win back-to-back platform titles as a freshman and sophomore, joining Stanford’s Eileen Richetelli (1992-93). Gilliland’s platform gold was her second medal of the national meet. The night before, she finished third behind teammate, senior and runner-up Kristen Hayden on the 3-meter springboard. She was also a 3M bronze medalist at the conference meet.
With Gilliland’s gold, Indiana women’s swimming and diving has had an individual champion in a Big Ten record eight straight seasons. Lilly King claimed eight breaststroke titles from 2016-19, Jessica Parratto won the Platform in 2015, and Brooklyn Snodgrass won the 200 Backstroke in 2014.
Indiana Water Polo Loses California 15-5
Senior Izzy Mandema scored a pair of goals but Number 15 Indiana couldn’t hang with Number 4 Cal in the home opener on Monday afternoon. Cal got out to a 5-1 lead in the first as senior Izzy Mandema scored IU’s only goal in the period. Kallie White and Portia Sasser added a pair of goals in the second, but the Bears increased its lead 8-3 at the break. Mandema added her second goal in the fourth while junior Katherine Hawkins also netted a goal but Cal proved to be too much as it came away with a 15-5 win over IU.
The Hoosiers will host San Jose State 11 a.m. and Salem 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center. They will also honor its program’s seniors against Salem.
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