Senior swimmer Anna Peplowski secured her first career national title Friday, winning the 200-yard freestyle by .06 seconds at the 2025 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington.
Peplowski’s final time of 1:40.50 was the seventh fastest in history, while also breaking her own Big Ten and Indiana women’s swimming record in the event.
The NCAA Championships are no stranger to Peplowski’s success. The Germantown Hills, Illinois, native won bronze in the 500-yard freestyle Thursday, marking the second consecutive season she has finished that event in the third-place position. In 2024, she also won silver in the 200-yard freestyle.
At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Peplowski earned a silver medal for Team USA in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Although she raced in the preliminary rounds of the event, she did not compete in the medal race.
The victory marks the first individual women’s title for Indiana since 2022, when Tarrin Gilliland won in the platform event. It is also the first individual swimming win for the Hoosiers since Olympic gold medalist Lilly King secured four straight national championships in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke from 2016-19.
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