{"id":597827,"date":"2024-10-19T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=597827"},"modified":"2024-10-19T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T01:51:50","slug":"michigan-dominant-against-wisconsin-and-notre-dame-women-in-two-day-tri-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michigan-dominant-against-wisconsin-and-notre-dame-women-in-two-day-tri-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Dominant Against Wisconsin and Notre Dame Women in Two-Day Tri-Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Dominant Against Wisconsin and Notre Dame Women in Two-Day Tri-Meet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Michigan swim and dive teams crushed their competition this weekend as they hosted Wisconsin and the Notre Dame women for two days of competition. Michigan’s women won by dominant margins, 238-115 over Wisconsin and 279-68 over Notre Dame, with Wisconsin winning over the Fighting Irish 223-118. On the men’s side, Michigan took down Wisconsin 261-90.<\/p>\n

The Michigan women started the meet by winning the 400 medley relay by more than two seconds.\u00a0Casey Chung<\/strong>,\u00a0Letitia Sim<\/strong>,\u00a0Natalie Kan<\/strong> and\u00a0Stephanie Balduccini<\/strong> clocked 3:34.24.\u00a0Lindsay Flynn<\/strong> got Michigan on the board in the individual events, clocking 22.35 to win the 50 freestyle, followed by Sim winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:12.37 and Kan taking the 100 butterfly top spot in 53.36.<\/p>\n

Balduccini took out the 200 free in 1:46.89, and she led off a team also including\u00a0Brady Kendall<\/strong>,\u00a0Claire Newman<\/strong> and Flynn that won the 200 free relay by two-and-a-half seconds in 1:28.64 to conclude Friday’s action.<\/p>\n

Saturday opened up in similar fashion, with Chung, Sim, Kendall and Flynn clocking 1:37.51 to win the 200 medley relay, followed by\u00a0Rebecca Diaconescu<\/strong> winning the 500 free in 4:49.67. Flynn won again in the 100 free (49.19), and Sim doubled up with a win in the 100 breast (1:00.50).<\/p>\n

In diving, Michigan’s\u00a0Kiarra Millian<\/strong> won on 1-meter (272.20) and 3-meter (331.45), with Balduccini, Newman,\u00a0Leila Fack<\/strong> and Flynn completing the dominant meet with a win in the 400 free relay (3:17.04).<\/p>\n

For\u00a0Wisconsin, Phoebe Bacon<\/strong> took three wins, in the 200 backstroke (1:55.61), 200 IM (1:58.50) and 200 fly (1:57.37). Maddie Waggoner<\/strong> got the first win of the meet for the Badgers with a time of 9:56.62 in the 1000 free, and freshman Maggie Wanezek<\/strong> clocked 53.59 as she finished atop the 100 back. For Notre Dame, Carli Cronk<\/strong> topped the 400 IM in 4:15.53.<\/p>\n