BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University men’s and women’s swimming and diving team announced its 2018-19 schedule on Tuesday, featuring four regular season meets and the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Championships to be held at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center in Bloomington, Ind.
The Hoosiers will start the year with the annual Cream & Crimson meet on Oct. 5, before hosting a quad-meet with Notre Dame, Kentucky and Missouri on Oct. 10.
After a two-day, tri -meet in Austin, Texas against Florida and Texas on Oct. 19-20, select members of the team will compete in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Nov. 10-11 in West Lafayette, Ind. IU head swimming coach Ray Looze will serve as the head coach of the Big Ten men’s squad.
The Hoosiers will also host the IU Invitational (Nov. 15-17) and dual-meets against rivals Michigan (Jan. 17) and Louisville (Feb. 1). Indiana will also face Purdue on Jan. 26 in West Lafayette.
IU will host the Big Ten Women’s Championships at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center from Feb. 20-23. The men’s league championships will be in Iowa City, Iowa from Feb. 27-Mar. 2.
The NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, which determines the divers that will compete at the NCAA Championships, will take place March 14-16 in West Lafayette, Ind. The NCAA Championships will be held in Austin, Texas from March 20-23 (women) and March 27-30 (men).
How many of those swimmers in the picture are still on the team?
Well I did some math:
The classes of 2018, 2019 and 2020 had a total of 28 transfers / drop outs.
So… quite a few
Side note: this is just the Men’s team