Indiana Hosts Florida in Season Opener

Courtesy: Indiana Athletics

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Two swimming and diving powerhouses kick off their season Friday (Sept. 26) morning as Indiana hosts Florida inside the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.

The meet is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET, and fans can stream the action via the B1G+ digital platform.

Indiana split the last season’s meeting with Florida – the men winning 163-137, and the women falling 164-136. However, both Hoosier teams finished ahead of Florida at their respective NCAA Championship meets. The Hoosier men came in third, while the women celebrated a program record fourth place finish.

MEET INFO
Friday, Sept. 26 • 10 a.m. ET
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center • Bloomington, Ind.
Opponent: Florida
Live Results (Swimming): Meet Mobile (App)
Live Results (Diving): divemeets.com
Live Stream: B1G+

OF NOTE…
INDIANA REPRESENTS IN BIG TEN WATCHLIST
Four members of the Indiana swimming and diving team featured in the Big Ten Swimmers and Divers to Watch list, released this week. Senior Owen McDonald, juniors Miranda Grana and Ella Roselli and freshman Josh Hedberg represented in the preseason watchlist ahead of the 2025-26 season.

McDonald is the reigning Big Ten Swimmer of the Year and swept his individual events at the 2025 Big Ten Championships. Grana helped the women earn a program record fourth place finish at the NCAA Championships last season. Roselli was the Big Ten 1-meter bronze medalist, and Hedberg, the lone Hoosier newcomer on the list, is already a six-time USA Diving senior national champion.

HOOSIERS FILL U.S. NATIONAL TEAMS
A total of 21 Americans with ties to the Indiana swimming and diving program have qualified for their respective national teams.

Twelve Hoosiers feature in USA Swimming’s 2025-26 national team, including Alexei Avakov, Brian Benzing, Mariah Denigan, Travis Gulledge, Lilly King, Matt King, Josh Matheny, Van Mathias, Owen McDonald, Anna Peplowski, Aaron Shackell and Jassen Yep. Avakov, Gulledge, McDonald and Shackell will compete for Indiana during the 2025-26 NCAA season.

Nine more Hoosiers earned selections to USA Diving’s High Performance Squads in May: Andrew Capobianco, Josh Hedberg, Quinn Henninger, Carson Tyler (Tier 1), Lily Witte (Tier 2) as well as Dash Glasberg, Ella Roselli, Joshua Sollenberger and Maxwell Weinrich (Tier 3). Hedberg, Witte, Glasberg, Roselli, Sollenberger and Witte are all members of the NCAA roster.