Nikola Andjelic, currently a junior at Indiana University with one year of eligibility left in his collegiate swimming career, has announced he will transfer to Miami University in the fall. Andjelic served as one of the captains of the Hoosiers’ men’s swimming and diving team for the 2017-2018 season.
“I chose Miami University because they are a team on the rise. Their university motto is, Love and Honor; and I truly saw that throughout the swimmers and throughout the coaching staff, love for one another and honor for their program and what they’re doing to advance the program to new heights. I cannot wait to see what lies for me at Miami! GO REDHAWKS!”
Andjelic is a breaststroker who came to Bloomington from Nanuet, New York. He went best times in the 100 breast, 200 breast, and 200 IM as a freshman, then lowered the breaststroke PBs as a sophomore. His best LCM times in his top events come from the last 12 months: 2017 Arena Pro Swim Indy, 2017 IU Bucceto Open, and 2018 Arena Pro Swim Atlanta.
Andjelic will join the Redhawks with incoming freshmen Brandon Crist, Nick Wamsley, and Ryan Sego. With the graduation of senior Hutch Blackstone, who won the 200 breast and was runner-up in the 100 breast at 2018 MAC Championships, Andjelic will have rising sophomores Noah Barr and Blake Brockman as training partners. Andjelic would have scored at this year’s conference meet in the A final of the 100 breast and the B final of the 200 breast.
Short Course:
- 100 breast: 54.49
- 200 breast: 2:00.11
Long Course:
- 50 breast: 28.52
- 100 breast: 1:04.03
- 200 breast: 2:20.21
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Dean Farris will win 2019 NCAA as his own team and will swim all legs of every relay
Are you limiting him to a single team?
I have read about 100+ posts here, and I do not think anyone mentioned if ALL these transfer student/athletes have to sit out a year. So who does and who doesn’t have to sit out next season. Braden et al?….
No none are staying in thr B1G.
An even more telling part of Looze’s “style” is how he treats high school kids who say no to him. Its not very cordial or respectful to say the least.
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I find it interesting that a month ago Indiana swimming and Ray Looze were the “toast of the town” for the progress the program has made over the last five years. One month later, after a few publicized transfers, Ray Looze and the Indiana program are the worst thing in college swimming. Surely the truth is somewhere in the middle?
A few
Ray is only a very minor reason the program is successful. He brought in a fantastic associate and already had another. Credit to Ray for having great assisants, but that is the extent he gets credit for anything else.
Add another one to the list of coaches that Gorb doesn’t think are very good! This list is getting pretty long
Hate to bring this up when referencing college swimming, but are any of these transfers considering academics? I suppose choice of major and finances play a role too, but transferring after 3 years makes little sense to me. Generally speaking, and I know everyone has dreams, goals and aspirations, we’re generally not seeing swimmers on the cusp of making the National team or potential Olympians moving to a better training environment.
Nikola has some very solid breastroke times (especially long course in his 50 breast). With that being said I believe he is already on the Serbian national team.
It might not be that devastating academically. I know a few guys who transferred for their last year for football and they were able to transfer their credits back to the original institution and receive a degree from there. Not sure if that’s the case here, but if it is, it makes transferring in your last year much less problematic.
Ironically, the only transfer so far who has mentioned academics & his major in their transfer announcement was Zach Apple, who is the only national teamer & potential US olympian to transfer. I’m sure it varies depending on the school and major, but i would think transferring your senior year would be incredibly inconvenient and burdensome academically. It’s highly unlikely that all or even most of your credits will transfer.
Not true others mentioned academics
Agreed. It seems we’re at a point where some big time schools (and some not-so-big time who want/think they are) are forcing these “student”-athletes to *only* take 12 hours per semester, and little to no summer classes. That means it’s impossible to graduate in 4 years, which, as a swimmer who’s not on the Ledecky-type level, should be the #1 priority. So some of these transfers (after 3 years) probably aren’t academically set up to graduate within a normal time frame anyways, thanks in part to their original school’s expectations.
Completely unfair and lacking knowledge…if your a 3rd year & the coach cuts you why would you stay at a University paying out of state tuition. Many have no choice but to transfer because it past application deadlines so to get in they have to swim their last year. NO Excuse cutting Junior athletes!
Again, how do you know he was cut?
Personally, I blame Teri McKeever.
I can totally see why he would transfer. The opportunity to swim for bonewit-cron is not something to be passed up. Now he’ll be able do old recycled Coach Troy workouts from the “The Binders” whenever he wants. Indiana is lame, but Oxford is….
Wow, there sure are a lot of Ray Looze trolls on this site. Nikola is a solid 54, 2:00 breaststroker who has improved significantly at IU and will make a significant contribution at Miami, The guys transferring to ASU are also solid DI swimmers, a 1:56 breaststroker; an improving 1:37/4:23 freestyler, etc. These guys have the chance to swim with a world class coach (Bowman) where they can contribute at conference and travel to dual meets. ASU is currently undergoing an academic push while trying to throw off the party image. They have opened an honors college, expanded the grad schools, and leveled their zoo fraternities (bulldozed a few summers ago). They are also offering academic scholarships to good students.… Read more »