2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational
- November 18-21, 2025
- McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, Columbus, OH
- Start Times:
- 9:30 am ET swimming prelims
- 11:30 am diving prelims
- 5:30 pm ET finals
- Participating Teams: Ohio State, Indiana, Yale, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Louisville, Penn State, UCLA, Kentucky, Purdue
- SCY (25 yards)
- Live Results
- Results on Meet Mobile as “2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational”
- Live Stream (subscription required)
- Live Recaps:
The Indiana Hoosiers are having themselves a meet in Columbus this week (more on that later). That includes freshman Liberty Clark, who had her coming out party on Thursday at the Ohio State Fall Invitational.
First she set an Indiana School Record in the 50 free in 21.54, shaving .02 seconds off Kristina Paegle‘s mark from last year’s NCAA Championship meet.
Clark then really turned heads in the 400 medley relay, where she anchored in 45.87 to lead the Hoosiers to a win in 3:27.20. That split was half-a-second faster than Louisville’s anchor Julia Dennis, one of the top sprinters in the NCAA this season, and makes Clark just the 10th woman to go under 46 seconds on a relay exchange.
The rest of the swimmers on the list are a who’s-who of American and collegiate sprinting over the last decade.
Sub-46 Second Splitters (fastest time per swimmer)
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 44.93
- Maggie MacNeil, LSU – 45.26
- Simone Manuel, Stanford – 45.45
- Taylor Ruck, Stanford – 45.65
- Mallory Comerford, Louisville – 45.74
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- Abbey Weitzeil, Cal – 45.77
- Torri Huske, Stanford – 45.77
- Anna Hopkin, Arkansas – 45.78
- Liberty Clark, Indiana – 45.87
- Missy Franklin, Cal – 45.98
Clark was an elite sprinter coming out of high school, but was just an Honorable Mention in SwimSwam’s class of 2025 recruit rankings.
Her high school bests of 22.30 and 48.48 were very good, but her first semester explosion, in just three meets for the Hoosiers, has been unreal. She went best times in early October at the USC Invite in both the 50 free (22.03) and 100 free (47.39). Now she needs to drop only .21 seconds, which feels like an inevitability after her relay split, to break the Indiana School Record in the 100 free as well.
That record belongs to Olympian Anna Peplowski, who has the 8 best 100 free times in program history.
In Ray Looze’s high-volume training system, the Hoosiers were not historically known for their sprinters. More recently, though, the men’s team has done a lot of good things with sprinters, and the women have really started to catch up significantly even in just the last year.
There’s some magic in the water right now in Bloomington, and things are firing well for the Hoosiers, and they still have the addition of top-ranked recruit Alex Shackell for the spring.
Dropping almost a full second off your 50 free time in a matter of months is crazy
But she had a very good long course summer; maybe it was just a matter of time for those performances to be translated to yards as well
Wtf
She wins the ‘best name’ award for the freshman class, as well.
Link goes to rankings as juniors, not as seniors. She was an honorable mention as a senior. Also I called her as better than she was ranked.
https://swimswam.com/re-rank-top-20-ncaa-swimming-recruits-in-the-girls-high-school-class-of-2025/#comment-1623618
Ray needs to do the thing again where he grabs a sprinter out of the butterfly lane and turns them into a world class breaststroker. If he does, Grana-???-Shackell-Clark might beat Virginia.
Wishful thinking.
Who would’ve thought Indiana would be in search of a breaststroker to complete an otherwise world class medley relay
It’s the University of Virginia with the breaststrokers:
Post graduates
Douglass, K. – 100 BR, 200 BR (LCM & SCM)
Walsh, A. – 200 BR (LCM & SCM)
Meanwhile, one of E. Weber or A. Canny should be serviceable on the breaststroke leg of the women’s 4 x 100 yard medley relay.
Serviceable? Weber went :57 at an October dual meet (and is a US Olympian in the event to boot). Canny has been terrific all season as well.
John “John Long” Long got a good one
Long John