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By Michael J. Stott.
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Several years ago,the PGA embarked upon its \u201cThese Guys are Good\u201d campaign promulgating the talent of its membership. The NCAA has a similar award called the Elite 90. It is conferred upon \u201cthe individual reaching the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level while achieving the highest academic standard among peers. The winner is the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA\u2019s 90 championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last night, for the second straight year, the honor for men\u2019s swimming and diving was presented to senior Michigan distance swimmer PJ Ransford<\/strong>. The Pittsford, New York, senior team captain is a five-time All-American with a 4.0 GPA currently pursuing a Masters Degree in mechanical engineering. First awarded in 2009-10 Ransford joins Brent Sterling of Tennessee and Tynan Stewart of Georgia as the only two-time winners.<\/p>\n

A member of the U.S. national team and possessor of lifetime short course bests of 4:14.27 in the 500 free, 14.32.35 in the 1650 (his best event) and 3:46.20 in the 400 IM Ransford wasn\u2019t always as accomplished. \u201cComing into college I was really aggressive. I\u2019d go out and just try to hang on,\u201d he says. \u201cI learned from training that it\u2019s best for me if I don\u2019t do that and take a little off the front end, get into the race and keep getting faster and faster.\u201d The fruits of that training paid off at 2017 World Championship Trials where he finished a heartbreaking third in the 1500, dropping eight seconds to clock a 15.01.82.<\/p>\n

Architect of the new and improved Ransford has been Josh White, Michigan\u2019s associate head coach and main distance guru. \u201cPJ is an incredible student and a great person. He\u2019s come in every year, worked hard, made improvements and always found ways to get better,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always been a pretty good short-course trainer, but we also do a lot of long-course training at Michigan. Freshman year we worked on building out the 25. He\u2019s got an incredible kick and is now using that as a weapon.\u201d A prime example was at World Trials where Ransford\u2019s final 100 in the 1500 (57.37) was faster than his final 100 in the 400 (57.50). \u201cPJ loves to win,\u201d White said, \u201cand he\u2019s driven and willing to take risks, an admirable characteristic that most champions seem to possess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ransford\u2019s honor is, \u201csymbolic of the hard work the team does as a whole to be great in the classroom. The team really values people who are academically successful. It makes such a big difference in the culture to have it reinforced by members of the team. When people are successful academically it is easy to pass it off as they are really smart and talented.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I love about PJ,\u201d says White, \u201cis he doesn\u2019t feel shy about saying, \u2018It is really hard to be able to balance school and have a 4.0 in mechanical engineering.\u2019 Either one of those things is hard on its own. Pushing both together speaks well about how hard he works to balance those things. Talent and intelligence can only get you so far.”<\/p>\n

A Tri-Captain<\/h3>\n

Those around him will tell you he\u2019s come a long way as a team leader. \u201cBeing a team captain has been awesome, a lot of fun and a lot of work,\u201d says Ransford. \u201cI love every person on the team. I know they support me. I lead by example mostly. I am not good at yelling at people. I just try and keep everyone moving in the right direction. If someone is having a bad day in practice I put my arms around them and try and get them to smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made great strides in team culture and team performance,\u201d he says. Part of that has come as a result of getting a team chock full of underclassmen on the same page. Ten of Michigan\u2019s 14 individual NCAA qualifiers are freshmen and sophomore shooting for a top eight finish after placings of 12th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> at NCAAs the last two years. The effort seems to be working. Of particular pride is the second place showing at this year\u2019s Big Ten\u2019s where the Wolverines scored 1617.5, just 40.5 points behind Indiana — and 235.5 more than last year.<\/p>\n

Ransford is modest about the Elite 90 award. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to what support Michigan has given us. Coming into school I had so much support,\u201d he says citing, among other things, an athletic-only building and an outstanding academic support staff. As a freshman I was able to benefit from all of that and succeed. One thing that helps is that the team has a lot of engineers (about 30 percent), especially mechanical engineers. I got to take a lot of classes with teammates. It was nice to start a class and have someone you knew and cared about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon Ransford, seeded 23rd<\/sup> of 41 entrants, is matter of fact in his approach to his final college 1650. \u201cI just have to swim my own race, build through and have a great finish. In the past couple of years, I have done that, but it probably didn\u2019t look like it.\u201d Such approaches included going for the lead, crushing the middle 500 and starting a finishing kick only to be overtaken in 2017 by the fastest field in event history (he finished sixth in his best time ever 14.32.35). \u201cLast year, I tried to pick it up too early and paid for it the last 300, so hopefully this year I won\u2019t make that same mistake and stay strong the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n

White said, \u201cWe just want a good race. His most recent shave and taper long course was his best in terms of the overall race. That\u2019s what we are hoping for. He\u2019s trained incredibly well this year with more consistency and faster training than ever before. He just needs to go out and put together what he\u2019s trained for.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

\u201cI graduate in December. I\u2019m still not sure about swimming. I\u2019m keeping my options open,\u201d says Ransford.<\/p>\n

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