Indiana alumnus Blake Pieroni and rising senior Anna Peplowski earned silver medals for their contributions to Team USA freestyle relays Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, at the Paris Olympic Games.
Pieroni swam in the preliminary rounds for the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler and Kieran Smith made up the finals team, taking home silver with a time of 7:00.78.
Selected All-Big Ten first team his last three years at Indiana, Pieroni finished his senior year in 2018 with an NCAA Championship in the 400-medley relay. In June at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis, his sixth-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle earned him a spot on the relay team for Paris.
Only two weeks after being named IU Athlete of the Year, Peplowski won a silver medal with Team USA’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Despite posting the second-fastest American time in the preliminary rounds, she was replaced for the medal race.
Pieroni and Peplowski’s medals mark the first two for IU representatives at the Paris Games.
