{"id":523240,"date":"2023-02-28T06:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=523240"},"modified":"2023-02-28T06:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:08:43","slug":"revitalized-van-mathias-plays-big-role-in-indianas-big-ten-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/revitalized-van-mathias-plays-big-role-in-indianas-big-ten-title\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revitalized\u2019 Van Mathias Plays Big Role in Indiana\u2019s Big Ten Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Revitalized\u2019 Van Mathias Plays Big Role in Indiana\u2019s Big Ten Title<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a snort of laughter from Van Mathias<\/strong> before the question even finished.<\/p>\n

For four years<\/a>, the Indiana grad student had hammered away, with plenty of success, at the same three events at the Big Ten Championships. Those events \u2013 the 100 butterfly, 200 fly and 200 individual medley \u2013 yielded him nine A finals and six NCAA swims.<\/p>\n

But for his fifth season, Mathias not only changed it up, but swung the pendulum about as far away from the 200 fly as could be. The reward for his adaptability was a first and treasured individual gold medal, in the 50 freestyle, something that the 2018 version of Mathias that arrived in Bloomington would\u2019ve regarded as unthinkable.<\/p>\n