Hoosiers torpedo to top at Speedo Series

This year's Speedo Champions Series Central Zone Section 3 meet, held in the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center, saw IU swimmers finish atop both the men and women's divisions. Sophomore John Kevin Koehler captured the men's point title with 110, while Junior Clarissa Wentworth swam away with the women's title, carrying a total score of 90. \nOther IU men swimmers who competed at the event include juniors Drew Ossakow, Ryan Millard, and Scott Tanner, redshirt freshmen Nick Walkotten and Norman Ference, and incoming freshmen Heath Tameris and Justin Peterfish. Incoming freshmen Abby Cooper and Katie Mitsch, along with senior Lauren Torpey and junior Clarissa Wentworth represented the IU women.\nKoehler won gold medals in the 200 LCM freestyle, the 1,500-meter freestyle, and the 400 freestyle relay, along with helping his team to first place in the 800 freestyle relay. Koehler met the senior national standards in all three of his individual races, as well as setting the meet record in the 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 15:49.95. \nGoing into the meet Koehler said he knew he could compete with the rest of the competition.\n"My training went really well," Koehler said, "I love coming back to Bloomington and I really feel comfortable in this pool."\nWentworth won two gold medals in the 100 butterfly and the 200 freestyle. She made her first national cut with a time of 57.87 seconds in the 100 fly, and her time of 2:05.82 in the 200 freestyle was nearly two seconds faster than any other performance of the morning. \nWentworth said she was very surprised that her first national cut came in the 100 fly. \n"It is not my strongest stroke," Wentworth said, "My coaches joked with me before the meet that I would get my first cut in the fly, they were right." \nWalkotten had a very strong performance after coming off a shoulder injury that kept him out of the pool during his first year in Bloomington. Walkotten won gold medals in the 100 backstroke and the 100 butterfly, as well as winning the consolation heat in the 50 freestyle. His time of 56.55 seconds in the 100 backstroke gave him an Olympic cut and a pool record. He did the same with his time of 54.80 seconds in the 100 butterfly, making the Olympic cut and setting another pool record. \nWalkotten said he knew nothing was guaranteed coming into the meet. \n"I was not expecting anything, but I felt good," Walkotten said, "My training before the meet went really well, and I am very happy with how I performed"