Three-time particular person NCAA Champion Brendan Burns has introduced his retirement from aggressive swimming. Burns spent his collegiate profession with Indiana.
Burns completed up his profession after swimming at US Olympic Trials final week. He completed thirtieth within the 200 free, forty third within the 200 again, and 54th within the 100 fly.
Burns returned for his fifth yr this previous season with the Hoosiers and helped this system to a different Huge Ten staff title in addition to a 4th place staff end on the 2024 NCAA Championships. Burns was the staff’s highest scoring swimmer at Huge Tens with 91 particular person factors together with Huge Ten titles within the 100 again and 200 again. He additionally was the staff’s highest scoring swimmer at NCAAs, scoring 43 factors, together with an NCAA title within the 100 again.
He’s most famously identified for swimming the “dirty-double, ” that means he swam the 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly on the identical day at meets akin to Huge Tens and NCAAs. Burns completed seventh within the 200 again and eighth within the 200 fly at 2024 NCAAs.
His 2024 100 backstroke NCAA title was not his first time on the high of the rostrum on the NCAA stage. Burns defended his title within the 100 backstroke after profitable the occasion as a senior in 2023. He additionally completed 2nd within the 200 fly at NCAAs in the identical season.
In 2022, his junior season, Burns gained the NCAA title within the 200 fly and completed 2nd within the 100 backstroke. As a junior, Burns additionally swept his particular person occasions at Huge Tens, profitable the 100 again, 200 again, and 200 fly whereas doing the “soiled double.”
Burns has been a constant contributor to Indiana all through all of his seasons with the Hoosiers. As a sophomore, he gained Huge Ten titles within the 200 again and 200 fly whereas ending 2nd within the 100 fly. He went on to make the NCAA ‘A’ finals within the 100 again and 200 fly.
As a freshman throughout spring 2020, Burns gained the Huge Ten title within the 200 fly and was the #7 seed for 2020 NCAAs that had been finally canceled.
Upon his retirement, Burns will likely be working at a reputation, picture, and likeness (NIL) agency.