2025 Indiana High School Boys Championship
- February 28 – March 1, 2025
- IU Natatorium — Indianapolis, Ind.
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Complete Results
The Carmel boys won their 11th consecutive IHSAA Boys’ Swimming and Diving Championship this weekend at the IU Natatorium. It’s not as long a streak as the Greyhound girls, who have won 40 straight team titles, but it’s an impressive streak in its own right.
Carmel was dominant during the championship finals session, sweeping the three relays for the second-straight season and amassing 412.5 points, the second most in state history. The team won by almost 200 points, as Fishers earned runner-up status with 216 points, 196.5 points behind Carmel.
Carmel Event Wins
Anderson Kopp, Yi Zheng, Andrew Shackell, and Michael Gorey got the ball rolling in the opening 200 medley relay, clocking 1:29.39 and winning by 1.93 seconds. Sophomore William Allen kept the momentum high for the Greyhounds, winning the next event, the 200 freestyle, in 1:37.07. He led the entire race, as Fishers senior Jonathan Hines logged 1:37.55 for silver.
Anderson’s title-winning effort in the 200 freestyle was a lifetime best, as was his 4:20.88 to win the 500 freestyle. He set both his previous bests in the last three months; he swam 1:37.19 last month at IHSAA Sectionals and 4:21.33 at the Winter Junior Championships — East in December. The 500 freestyle was a particularly strong event for Carmel, as the team placed 1st-2nd-4th. Kopp (4:21.19) and Lewis Zhang (4:28.36) were Carmel’s other ‘A’ finalists.
Shackell earned the Greyhounds’ other individual event, swimming 47.42 to win the 100 butterfly. He swam 47.29 in prelims, but still won the race by .73 seconds. The senior also contributed to Carmel’s winning 200 and 400 freestyle relays. He led off both relays, teaming with Carter Hadley, Gorey, and Zheng on the 200 freestyle relay for a final time of 1:21.64. He, Allen, Hadley, and Kopp clocked 2:59.33 to win the 400 freestyle relay. Not only were they the only team sub-3:00 but no other team broke 3:03 as the Greyhounds ended their streak-extending championships with a final event win.
Grant Cates Breaks Long-Standing Diving State Record
Oak Hill senior Grant Cates broke the oldest record on the IHSAA Swimming and Diving history books on Saturday. He scored 655.95 points on the 1-meter board, shattering Phillip Jones’ 623.90 mark, which had stood since 2001.
“Today really couldn’t have gone better,” Cates told the IHSAA. “There were a few dives I could have hit better, but as a list — that is as good as I could do…I was getting 550s all throughout the season, and then the last meet before sectionals I broke 600 [for the first time] and never went under again…everything came together at the right time.”
Before winning the title this weekend, Cates had won bronze the past two seasons.
Other Highlights
Bloomington South senior David Kovacs picked up a pair of event wins at the championships. First, the Indiana commit obliterated his 1:49.08 lifetime best in the 200 IM, clocking a 1:46.64. He finished third a year ago, but earned the top step of the podium decisively this year, winning by a second.
Later, Kovacs won the 100 backstroke in another lifetime best, swimming 47.63. He was second at the halfway mark but put in a field-best 24.60 closing split to get his hand on the wall for the win. Center Grove junior Henry Lyness won silver with a 47.71.
There was another close race in the 50 freestyle. There, Bloomington North senior James Stewart hit the wall a hundredth ahead of Jake Tarara, 20.08 to 20.09. Tarara, a Princeton commit, got his event win later in the 100 freestyle. He hit his prelim time exactly, swimming 43.93 to win gold after taking silver home last season.
Valparaiso senior Jonah Lee won the final individual event, the 100 breaststroke, in 54.13. The time is just off the Purdue commit’s lifetime best, which he set at 53.87 at the Winter Junior Championships — East.
Final Standings (Top 10)
- Carmel — 412.5
- Fishers — 216
- Bloomington South — 184
- Center Grove — 170
- Penn — 156.5
- Homestead — 160
- Valparaiso — 125.5
- Franklin Community — 102
- Carroll (Fort Wayne) — 82
- Zionsville/Hamilton Southeastern — 81
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Noah moeller
From enthusiasts and purists to novices and noobs: this is a fun meet to watch.
Congrats to Carmel! And congrats to all!
Agreed, great meet. Carmel has great depth
They should. They recruit across the country.
Sour grapes and not true. When you have great facilities, resources and coaching, like Carmel, and even Fishers, people are going to come from all over to swim for a programs like that.