The weekend prior to spring break, the Scarlet Hawks swimming and diving team travelled to St. Peters, Missouri to compete in the NAIA National Swimming and Diving championship. Overall, the men's team placed 7^th out of 17 teams, and the women's team took 11^th out of 21. The team came home with 1 National Champion, 7 All American swims (finishing top 3 in an event), and 6 new school records.

The meet started on Wednesday afternoon with men's 3 meter and women's 1 meter diving. Freshman diver, Ian McNair, took 3^rd on the 3 meter board, with a final score of 254.70. Thursday, McNair had an impressive performance, moving up from a 3^rd place standing in the preliminary rounds of diving, to take 1^st on the 1 meter board, nabbing his first National Championship. McNair's final score was 259.20. McNair is the third diver at IIT under head coach Rob Bond, and diving coach Ryan Nelson, to have won a National Championship title.

At the other end of the pool, the swimmers were also hard at work. The women's 200 yard medley relay of sophomores Andrea Zuniga, Julia Duarte, Morgan Curran and Melanie Koto took 13^th with an overall time of 1:55.66 and the men's relay of freshman Matthew Rosenfeld and Eric Grunden, senior Joe Taylor, and sophomore Max Ramminger took 7^th with a final time of 1:33.52. In the 200 yard individual medley, Curran placed 10^th overall, with a final time of 2.11.97, and Grunden took 15^th for the men's team with a 1:59.52. In the men's 50 yard freestyle, Ramminger had to really race, and out touching Concordia's Eric Anderssen for 2nd by .04 seconds, finishing in a time of 20.47, a new team record. The women's 800 yard freestyle relay of freshman Victoria Masney, Zuniga, Curran and Koto took 10^th, with a final time of 7:59.66, and the men's team of Grunden, senior Jay Park, junior Joe Muchna, and freshman Michael Keane swam to a 9^th place finish with a time of 7:08.48.

Friday started day 2 of the swimming, starting off with the 200 yard freestyle relay. The women's relay of Koto, Zuniga, Curran and Masney finished 11^th with a time of 1:42.37, and the men's team, consisting of Ramminger, junior Mark Callan, Grunden and Taylor took 5^th with a time of 1:23.99. Curran took 4^th in the 400 yard individual medley, with a final time of 4:39.71, and Muchna took 15^th for the men's team, finishing with a final time of 4:17.26. In the 100 yard butterfly, Masney took 3^rd, finishing with a school record time of 57.10. Taylor also took 3^rd for the men's team, finishing in a team record time of 48.92, and sophomore Keiji Halloway took 16^th for the team with a final time of 52.32. In the 200 yard freestyle, Koto took 8^th with a time of 1:58.16, and Grunden took 8^th for the men's team in the 100 yard breaststroke, with a time of 59.09, and Ramminger took 15^th in the event with a time of 59.48. Finishing up the day, the women's 400 yard medley relay of Zuniga, Curran, Masney and Koto took 9^th with a time of 4:03.99, and the men's team of Rosenfeld, Grunden, Taylor and Ramminger took 8^th with a time of 3:30.61.

On the third and final day of the meet, Muchna took 20^th the mile for the men's team with a time of 17:10.06. In the 200 yard backstroke, Rosenfeld took 18^th with a time of 1:59.89. Masney took 2^nd in the 100 yard freestyle, setting a new team record with a time of 51.54, and Koto placed 13^th with a time of 54.30. Ramminger took 3^rd in the event, also with a team record breaking time of 45.24. In the 200 yard breaststroke, Curran took 13^th, finishing with a time of 2:28.92, and in the men's 200 yard butterfly, Halloway took 12^th with a time of 1:56.68, and Muchna took 13^th with a time of 1:57.53. The last event of the meet was the 400 yard freestyle relay, in which the women's team of Koto, Zuniga, Curran and Masney were out touched by Lindenwood, taking 11^th by. 04 seconds, and finished with a time of 3:38.05. The men's team of Grunden, freshman John Lyman, Taylor and Ramminger took 7^th with a final time of 3:08.55.