Indiana vs Kentucky vs USC
- October 23, 2026
- Bloomington, IN
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results
- Women’s Team Scores
- #5 Indiana 205 — #15 USC 95
- #5 Indiana 218 — Kentucky 82
- #15 USC 159.5 — Kentucky 140.5
- Men’s Team Scores
- #2 Indiana 221 — #17 USC 79
- #2 Indiana 191 — #23 Kentucky 108
- #17 USC 199 — #23 Kentucky 100
Indiana, Kentucky, and USC met for a double dual meet in Bloomington. Indiana came out on top of both Kentucky and USC, despite missing all their athletes racing at the SC World Trials next week.
USC beat Kentucky in both the men’s and women’s meets.
Women’s Recap
Indiana won most of the individual swimming events, both diving events, and both relays. They were missing two of their top athletes in Alex Shackell and Liberty Clark, both of whom are racing at the SC World Trials next week.
The Indiana women kicked the meet off with a win in the 200 medley relay. Their ‘A’ relay of Eva Rottink (25.28), Anita Bottazzo (25.96), Miranda Grana (22.81), Kristina Paegle (21.38) swam 1:35.43 to finish two seconds ahead of USC’s ‘A’ relay time of 1:37.43.
In the 400 freestyle relay, Kristina Paegle (48.41), Amelia Bray (48.82), Macky Hodges (48.60), and Elizabeth Eichbrecht (48.01) swam 3:13.84
The Hoosiers were led by Miranda Grana in the individual events, who won three different events at the meet. She started with a win in the 100 backstroke, stopping the clock in 52.20 to finish about a second ahead of Lindsay Barnes‘ 53.50 in 2nd for USC.
In the 200 back, Grana swam 1:52.75 to finish three seconds ahead of teammate Macky Hodges (1:55.92), and in the 100 fly, she swam 51.96 to finish half-a-second ahead of teammate Anita Bottazzo‘s 52.42.
Bottazzo set a season best 57.73 to win the 100 breast, taking half-a-second off the 58.22 she set at the 3rd CSL match. She will remain the 3rd fastest in the country this season behind Anastasia Gorbenko and Eneli Jefimova.
Kristina Paegle was Indiana’s other two event winner, setting a new season best time in the 100 free to swim 47.70 and winning the 50 free in 21.89.
USC earned three event wins. Minna Abraham swam 1:43.76 to win the 200 freestyle just over her season best 1:43.72 from the USC Invite.
Freshman Brigitta Vass won the women’s 200 breaststroke in a personal best 2:10.59, taking four tenths off her 2:10.99 from the USC Invite.
Sage Miller was their final individual event winner, setting a season best 1:57.06 mark in the 200 butterfly, just seven tenths added from her best of 1:56.30 from January.
Men’s Recap
The Indiana men also won most of the events, even missing some of their top swimmers who are also swimming at the SC World Trials next week, but the Kentucky men picked up one of the relays along with a few individual swimming events.
The Hoosiers won the 400 freestyle relay with the team of Vidar Carlbaum (44.09), Dylan Smiley (42.45), Lincoln Hoffmann (43.41), Mira Knedla (41.93) swam 2:51.88 to finish half-a-second ahead of Kentucky’s 2:52.34.
They had a few double event winners as well. Freshman Gabriel Manteufel swept the distance freestyle events, setting season best times in both races. In the 500 free, he swam 4:17.36 to add four seconds from the 4:13.55 he swam in December of 2024. In the 1000 free, he swam 8:49.53, only three seconds off his best of 8:46.56 from March of 2025.
Toby Barnett won both breaststroke events, also in season best times. In the 100 breast, he swam 52.15 and in the 200 breast, he swam 1:53.75. His 100 breast was about half-a-second over his best of 51.53 from the 2026 NCAA Championships, and his 200 breast was about four seconds add from his best of 1:49.80, also from the 2026 NCAAs.
Raekwon Noel was their final dual event winner, swimming 1:42.49 in the 200 fly, a four tenth add from his season best of 1:41.92. In the 200 IM, he set a lifetime best 1:45.00, taking nine tenths off the 1:45.96 he swam in January against Purdue.
The University of Kentucky also had a strong showing, winning a few different individual events and setting the top time in the men’s 200 medley relay.
Their relay team of Devin Naoroz (21.21), Cayden Pitzer (23.75), Lysander Osman (19.87), and Falemana Tuufui (19.03) stopped the clock in 1:23.86.
Tuufui went on to also win the men’s 50 freestyle, stopping the clock in 19.18, about three tenths off the 18.89 lifetime best he set last weekend at the Georgia Tech Dual Meet Tournament.
