Miranda Grana Becomes First Indiana Hoosier Woman Under 50 Seconds in the 100 Yard Fly

2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational

• November 18-21, 2025
• McCorkle Aquatic Pavillion, Columbus, OH
• 9:30 am ET swimming prelims/11:30am diving prelims/5:30 pm ET finals (Tuesday exception: 5 pm ET relay timed finals)
• Championship Format
• SCY
• Live Stream (subscription required)
• Live Results
• Results on Meet Mobile as “2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational”
• Participating Teams: Ohio State, Indiana, Yale, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Louisville, Penn State, UCLA, Kentucky, Purdue
• Day 1 Finals Recap
• Day 2 Prelims Recap

Indiana junior Miranda Grana broke 50 seconds in the 100 fly on Wednesday evening at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, making her the first swimmer in program history to go under 50 seconds in the event and shaving .03 seconds off her own program record.

Race Video:

Those underwaters are special. 😮‍💨@miranda_grana sets a program record & the No. 1 time in the country! pic.twitter.com/1MfVu9OCN2

— Indiana Swim & Dive (@IndianaSwimDive) November 19, 2025

Grana’s previous best was a 50.01 done at the 2025 NCAA Championships.

While Gretchen Walsh‘s 46.97 at last year’s NCAA Championship meet summarily rewrote the books on what a fast 100 fly looks like, Grana now becomes the 13th woman to break that barrier. Interestingly, as broader conversations shift to how international swimmers are impacting NCAA competition, only two of the 12 women ahead of her are not American-born – Louise Hansson, who is Swedish, and Maggie MacNeil, who is Canadian

1. 1. Gretchen Walsh — 46.97, Virginia — 2025 NCAA DI Women’s Championships, 03/21/2025
   2. Kate Douglass — 48.46, Virginia — 2023 NCAA DI Women’s Championship, 03/17/2023
   3. Maggie MacNeil — 48.51, LSU, Canada — 2023 NCAA DI Women’s Championship, 03/17/2023
   4. Torri Huske — 48.52, Stanford — 2025 ACC Championships, 02/20/2025
   5. Claire Curzan — 49.02, Virginia — 2025 ACC Championships, 02/20/2025
   6. Louise Hansson — 49.26, USC, Sweden — 2019 NCAA DI Women, 03/22/2019
   7. Emma Sticklen — 49.27, University of Texas — 2025 NCAA DI Women’s Championships, 03/21/2025
   8. Erika Brown — 49.38, University of Tennessee, USA — 2020 SEC Champs, 02/20/2020
   9. Kelsi Dahlia — 49.43, Louisville — 2016 NCAA DI Women, 03/18/2016
   10. Alex Shackell — 49.49, Carmel Swim Club — 2023 Winter Juniors East, 12/08/2023
   11. Regan Smith — 49.87, Stanford — 2022 PAC-12 Championships, 02/25/2022
   12. Katie McLaughlin — 49.97, Cal — 2019 NCAA DI Women, 03/22/2019
   13. Miranda Grana — 49.98, Indiana — 2025 Ohio State Invitational, 11/19/2025

The Mexico native spent her freshman season at Texas A&M before transferring to Indiana prior to last season.

When Alex Shackell, who swam 49.49 in the 100 fly as a junior in high school, joins the Hoosiers in January, the team will have two sub-50 swimmers on their roster. Only Stanford and Virginia have ever had multiple sub-50 second swimmers on their roster at once. Indiana is now just the 8th college to produce a sub-50 second 100 fly swim.

Grana’s previous school record of 50.01 was done in the final of last year’s NCAA Championship meet, where she placed 4th. Two of the three swimmers ahead of her in that race (Walsh and Emma Sticklen) graduated, leaving Indiana in position to have two of the four best in the NCAA next season in an event that was not historically a strength for the program.

Prior to Grana arriving in the fall of 2024, Indiana’s last NCAA Championship meet scorer in the race was Christine Jensen, who placed 16th in 2019. Their last A finalist was Gia Dalesandro, who was 8th in 2017.

Grana is building a strong pattern – she arrived at Indiana with a best time of 51.32 from her freshman year at A&M, improved it at the mid-season Ohio State Invitational (51.10), improved it at Big Tens (50.80), and improved it again at NCAAs (50.01).

She left A&M after their head coach Steve Bultman retired.

Grana also broke 1 minute in the long course edition for the first time over the summer, touching in 59.79 at the Mexican World Championship Trials; she did it again at the World Championships with a 59.86 in prelims.

Grana still has the 100 back to swim on Thursday – arguably her best event. She is one of many swimmers who will benefit from the 100 fly and 100 back being split into different days under the new NCAA Championship format.