Indiana's Ava Whitaker Highlights Early Wave of Swimmers Entering Transfer Portal
03/12/2025 10:47 AM
By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
The transfer portal has opened for women’s swimming and diving and a flood of athletes have already entered as of Wednesday morning. Highlighting the list is Big Ten runner up and NCAA qualifier Ava Whitaker who is in her sophomore season with the Hoosiers.
Eight women from Indiana have entered the portal already including Whitaker. Whitaker is slated to compete for the Hoosiers at NCAAs next week and scored 44 individual points at Big Tens last month, the 13th most of the team. She finished 2nd in the 200 fly, 11th in the 100 fly, and 50th in the 200 IM.
Other names in the portal for Indiana include Claire Stuhlmacher, Lucie Delmas, Justine Delmas, Ana Hazlehurst, Adrianna Lojewski, James Jones, and Daniela Karnaugh. The Delmas twins deferred their enrollment a year but did not compete for the Hoosiers at all this season. Lojewski originally committed to Houston and Northeastern before landing at Indiana.
Hawaii’s Dorottya Dobos also highlights names in the portal. Dobos won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) title in the 200 backstroke swimming a 1:57.33 in finals, although she was faster in prelims with a 1:56.53. She also swam to 3rd in the 200 back in a 54.66.
Indiana is not the only school with numerous women in the portal as South Carolina has nine members in the portal, Virginia Tech has five, and Auburn has eight.
Among the names in the portal for Auburn is Lawson Ficken who swam for the team at SECs. The sophomore notably just missed out on scoring in the 100 fly as she was 25th in prelims in a 52.93. Her personal best from a dual meet of a 52.43 in January against Alabama would have been 17th in prelims.
After their program was cut last week effective immediately, Cal Poly already has seven women in the portal.
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