Indiana University Names Brendan Burns and Tarrin Gilliland Athletes of the Year
Indiana Swimming and Diving Junior Brendan Burns and Sophomore Tarrin Gilliland were named the recipients of the IU Athlete of the Year awards for the 2021-22 season, in which each won an individual NCAA Championship. Gilliland was named the CSCAA Women’s Diver of the Year, the Big Ten Women’s Diver of the Year, and one of four finalists for the Honda Sport Award after repeating as the NCAA Champion in platform diving. The Midland, Texas, native became just the second athlete ever to repeat as platform diving champion during their freshman and sophomore seasons, joining Stanford’s Eileen Richitelli (1992-93).
For a second-straight season, Gilliland was an All-American in all three diving disciplines, and in 2022 was one of two athletes to qualify for all three championship finals as she placed third on the 3-meter springboard and eighth on the 1-meter board. Gilliland was a top-four finisher in all three events at the Big Ten Championships, where she won her first-career Big Ten crown in platform diving as well as bronze on the 3-meter board. Gilliland led a men’s and women’s diving group that totaled 148 points at the NCAA meet, 37 points better than the next-best combined program. At USA Diving Winter Nationals in December, Gilliland won titles in both the mixed and women’s synchronized platform diving events.
In March, Burns became IU’s first NCAA Champion in the 200-yard butterfly since 1973, joining a list full of Olympians. The junior from Berwyn, Pennsylvania, placed top 10 in five-of-five events at the national championships, adding two silver medal performances to his title. The month before, Burns was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships after winning gold in all five events swam at the conference meet while leading the Hoosier men to their fourth Big Ten team title in six years. Burns set program records in the 200-yard butterfly (1:38.71) and 100-yard backstroke (44.15), earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and won four Big Ten Swimmer of the Week awards during the dual meet season. For his exploits, Burns was named the Big Ten Men’s Swimmer of the Year.
Indiana University Men’s Golf Announces 2022-2023 Schedule
Indiana University Men’s Golf Head Coach Mike Mayer announced the program’s 2022-23 schedule on Wednesday morning. The schedule includes 11 regular season events, highlighted by the Hoosier Collegiate at The Pfau Course in April of 2023.
Indiana will kick the season off at the Fighting Irish Classic, the first of three tournaments in the month of September. The event will be held from September 4-5 on the Warren Golf Course in South Bend. IU will then head to Chicago for the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational from Sept. 16-18 before closing the month at the Windon Memorial Classic at the in Skokie, Ill. from September 26-27.
2022-23 MEN’S GOLF SCHEDULE
| Dates | Tournament | Golf Course | Location |
| Sept. 4-5 | Fighting Irish Classic | Warren GC | Notre Dame, Ind. |
| Sept. 16-18 | Fighting Illini Invitational | Olympia Fields CC | Chicago, Ill. |
| Sept. 26-27 | Windon Memorial Classic | Evanston CC | Skokie, Ill. |
| Oct. 10-11 | Purdue Fall Invitational | Kampen GC | West Lafayette, Ind. |
| Oct. 16-17 | Quail Valley Collegiate | Quail Valley GC | Vero Beach, Fla. |
| Oct. 21-23 | Williams Cup | Eagle Point GC | Wilmington Beach, N.C. |
| Feb. 4-5 | Big Ten Match Play | Ocean GC | Hammock Beach, Fla. |
| March 6-7 | Colleton River Collegiate | Colleton River | Bluffton, S.C. |
| March 13-14 | Florida State Invitational | Seminole Legacy GC | Tallahassee, Fla. |
| April 8-9 | Hoosier Collegiate | The Pfau Course | Bloomington, Ind. |
| April 22-23 | Fighting Illini Collegiate | Atkins GC | Urbana, Ill. |
| April 28-30 | Big Ten Championships | Galloway National | Galloway, N.J. |
| May 15-17 | NCAA Regionals | TBD | TBD |
| May 26-31 | NCAA Finals | Grayhawk GC | Scottsdale, Ariz. |
Indiana University Wrestling adds Army Transfer Clayton Fielden
Indiana University Wrestling head coach Angel Escobedo has announced the signing of transfer Clayton Fielden from Army. Fielden will arrive in Bloomington as a junior for the 2022-23 season but will have three years of eligibility remaining. At Army, Fielden wrestled most recently at 174 lbs. as a sophomore, while wrestling at 165 lbs. as a freshman. He holds a career 8-10 collegiate record and went 5-6 last season. In the 2021-2022 season, Fielden owned notable victories that included a 2-1 showing at the Journeyman Classic on Nov. 14, and a win over Connor O’Neill in the team’s dual at Rutgers on December 10th. The move to Indiana marks Fielden’s return to his home state. The grappler is a native of Garrett, Indiana. At Garrett High School he was a two-time team captain, two-time state runner-up and four-time all-conference selection.
Indiana University Diving Head Coach Drew Johansen selected for FINA Technical Committee
Indiana University Diving Head Coach Drew Johansen has been elected as a member of the FINA Technical Diving Committee as the honorary secretary of the diving & high diving coaches committee, the FINA National Federation, United States Aquatic Sports, announced this week.
The FINA Technical Diving Committee represents diving coaches around the world regarding rule changes, competition formats and the future of diving on the world and Olympic stages. The committee is generally comprised of one coach representative per continent, allowing its members to support and grow the sport for FINA around the world. Johansen has a wealth of experience on the world stage, coming most recently this summer as an Assistant Coach for USA Diving at the 19th FINA World Championships where three Hoosier divers competed, and IU freshman Carson Tyler won bronze in mixed synchronized 10-meter diving. Additionally, Johansen has been Team USA’s head diving coach for each of the last three Olympic games.
Indianapolis Indians Coverage
Iowa Beats Indians 4-1
Travis Swaggerty launched his seventh home run of the season and Jerad Eickhoff dazzled over 7.0 innings of one-run ball, but a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning lifted the Iowa Cubs to a win over the Indianapolis Indians on Wednesday night, 4-1. After a leadoff single by Greg Deichman and a walk to follow against Cam Alldred (L, 2-3), John Hicks launched a one-out, no-doubt homer to left field off Cristofer Melendez to give Iowa (35-44) its first lead of the game. Swaggerty began the scoring for the Indians (35-44), sending a two-out home run into the right-field corner. It was one of five hits for Indy, with Ji-Hwan Bae’s two hits – for his third consecutive multi-hit game – leading the offense.
Eickhoff dealt over 7.0 innings, allowing just two hits up until back-to-back two-out hits – sparked by a double off the bat of Deichmann tied the game at 1-1. The outing was Eickhoff’s longest since tossing 8.0 innings on May 8, 2019, with Philadelphia at St. Louis, and his seven strikeouts for the second consecutive game tied his season high. Former Indians hurler and 2017 International League Most Valuable Pitcher Steven Brault (W, 1-0) made his season debut and surrendered two hits in one scoreless inning of relief.
Kevin Newman singled to extend his hitting streak to a team-high 12 games across both his rehab stints with Indianapolis. Cal Mitchell, who was working an 11-gamer entering tonight, had his streak snapped with a 0-for-4 showing. The Indians and I-Cubs will continue their six-game series tonight at 7:05pm at Victory Field. RHP Mike Burrows (0-1, 6.00) will take the mound for Indianapolis against RHP Cam Sanders (0-4, 5.60).
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