arena Swim of the Week: IU Indy’s Logan Kelly Pops Record 51.56 100 Breast In Season Opener

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Indiana University-Indianapolis (IU Indy) graduate senior Logan Kelly had a phenomenal start to the 2025-26 season last weekend during a quad meet with Cleveland State, UW-Green Bay and Milwaukee, shattering his own program record in the men’s 100 breaststroke.

Kelly, 22, fired off a time of 51.56 in the timed final event, taking nearly four-tenths off his previous IU Indy Program Record of 51.94 set back at the 2023 Horizon League Championships.

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The swim also marked a new Horizon League Record, lowering the 51.90 mark established by Oakland’s Christian Bart at the 2023 Zippy Invitational.

 

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Kelly did not compete for the Jaguars in 2024-25 (outside of racing exhibition at the midseason House of Champions Invite), but he’s coming off a successful summer that included setting a personal best time of 1:01.03 in the long course 100 breast en route to winning it at the Indiana LSC Senior Championships.

He is a one-time NCAA qualifier, becoming the first IUPUI male swimmer to qualify for D1 NCAAs in 2023, and narrowly missed out on qualifying as a freshman in 2022 and as a junior in 2024.

Now, with the time he produced last week, he may have already solidified a spot at the meet, with the 2025 cutline sitting at 51.58. Furthermore, Kelly has a chance to be an NCAA scorer in his final season, with 51.45 being the time required to earn a second swim at the 2025 NCAAs.

In his lone NCAA appearance in 2023, he placed 33rd in the 200 breast.

Kelly has also won five individual Horizon League titles thus far in his career, sweeping the 200 breast in 2022, 2023 and 2024 while adding 100 titles in his freshman and junior seasons.

Last weekend, he also won the 200 breast in a time of 1:55.75, placed 4th in the 50 free with a new best time of 20.76, and added a swift 23.57 breast leg on the IU Indy 200 medley relay.

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