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By Seren Jones, Swimming World College Intern The Big 10 Conference Championship meet is upon us. Check the psych sheet here! As one of the fastest female conferences in the country, the conference consists of ten talented teams: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Nebra...

University of Michigan's seniors Anders Nielsen and Marni Oldershaw helped lead the Wolverines to wins over Big Ten competition Purdue and Michigan State. Men's Press Release: The University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team opened the 2015-16 season with a pair of victories against Big Ten...

Photo by Griffin Scott Editorial coverage for U.S. Senior Nationals proudly sponsored by Master Spas! IRVINE, California, August 8. Trojan’s Jessica Hardy unleashed a meet record in the sprint breaststroke, the event she calls her favorite.  Hardy crushed the field with a time of 30.12 to beat the 3...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 17. HEAD University of Michigan swimming and diving coach Mike Bottom announced Tuesday (June 17) the addition of swimmer Samantha Yeo (Singapore/Raffles Girls' School) to the U-M women's swimming and diving team who will join the incoming freshman class of 2014-15. Yeo joi...

The third day events began at the Women’s Big Ten Championships on Firday at Purdue. Here is a look at what happened in prelims: 100 butterfly Indiana’s Gia Dalesandro took the top seed in the 100 butterfly, finishing in 51.79. Ohio State’s Zhesi Li was second in 51.98, followed by Wisconsin’s Dana ...

Photo Courtesy: Mike Comer/ProSwimVisuals.com IOWA CITY, Iowa, October 3. UNIVERSITY of Michigan freshmen Hannah Moore and Ian Rainey posted impressive swims in the 1000 freestyle tonight to lead the Wolverine men and women to the lead over Iowa and Nebraska on day one of the teams' two-day dual mee...

Behind a combined six wins from seniors Evan White, PJ Ransford and Tristan Sanders, the No. 7-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team swept No. 16 Ohio State (157-143) and No. 19 Virginia Tech (196-104) in a championship-like environment on Saturday (Jan. 20) inside the McCorkl...

COLUMBUS - The Michigan Wolverines used a steady approach to lead after relay night at the Big Ten Women's Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Wisconsin, based on a huge fly leg from Ivy Martin, put on a show to win the women's 200-yard medley relay to start the evening. Annie Tamblyn (24.71), Anna Mei...

By Dan D’Addona. ANN ARBOR — The Michigan swimming program has big plans for the end of the season. The Wolverines are ranked in the top 10 in the country in both the men’s and women’s polls and looking to keep the momentum going into the Big Ten Championships and NCAA Championships. Michigan capped...

The men’s and women’s Michigan teams dominated at the Orange Bowl Swim Classic in the Florida Keys at Key Largo's Jacobs Aquatic Center. The ninth ranked Wolverine women beat four other teams, racking up 265 points. The sixth ranked Michigan men beat three teams, finishing with 231 points. The teams...

Photo by Peter H. Bick Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, August 3. EMILY Kopas and Todd Owen walked away with junior national titles in the 200-meter breaststroke at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. Women's 200 Breast Swim Fort Lauder...

Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, August 2. PLEASANTON's Maxime Rooney had the swim of the morning as he put a hurting on his personal record with the top seed in the men's 200-meter free.  Plenty of other fast swims also happened durin...

By Dan D'Addona. The University of Michigan women’s swim team won the Georgia Fall Invitational on Sunday. The No. 4 Wolverines concluded the three-day meet with 991.5 points. No. 5 Georgia was second with 833, edging No. 6 Cal (830). No. 16 Virginia took fourth with 633.5, followed by No. 25 UCLA (...

PLANTATION, Florida, March 16. THE final night of action at the Plantation, Fla. stop of the Speedo Champions Series is in the books. It proved to be another exciting night of swimming as 14-year-old Michael Andrew added another National Age Group record to his collection and Club Wolverine’s Emily ...

Photo by Griffin Scott Editorial coverage for U.S. Senior Nationals proudly sponsored by Master Spas! IRVINE, California, August 7. Some shocking outcomes occurred during the second evening of the USA Swimming Senior Nationals, including a big time backstroke start slip by Elizabeth Beisel.  Meanwhi...

Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, August 2. MICHAEL Andrew, the much-talked-about 15-year-old professional swimmer, had a breakthrough tonight with his first junior national title at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals in Irvine. Schedule...

COLUMBUS - Rarely does a relay disqualification hurt more than the one that delivered the Big Ten Women's Championship title to Minnesota Golden Gophers this weekend. Last night, the Indiana Hoosiers put themselves behind the 8 ball in a serious way by drawing a disqualification to what would have b...

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr GREENSBORO - Molly Hannis made a bid to get her second breaststroke win at the USA Swimming nationals, but SwimMAC Carolina's Micah Lawrence withstood the challenge to win her specialty with a 2:06.59. Lawrence doesn't put in a full rest often in the short course, as indic...

Photo Courtesy: Azaria Basile GREENSBORO – All eyes were on the middle of the pool through most of the final of the women’s 100 breaststroke at the USA Swimming, but the attention turned to lane two, where Molly Hannis snuck by the field to win her first national title. The winning time of 58.46 was...

COLUMBUS - Friday night proved to be pretty dramatic at the Big Ten Women's Championships with a relay DQ potentially being the deciding factor of the meet heading into the final day as Minnesota leads Indiana. Meanwhile, IU's Brooklynn Snodgrass, the 200 back NCAA champ, downed a meet record in the...