﻿{"id":611911,"date":"2025-05-13T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=611911"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:35:29","slug":"olympic-medalist-ncaa-champion-bella-sims-transfers-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-medalist-ncaa-champion-bella-sims-transfers-to-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Medalist, NCAA Champion Bella Sims Transfers to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Olympic Medalist, NCAA Champion Bella Sims Transfers to Michigan<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>After two years swimming for the University of Florida, Olympian <strong>Bella Sims<\/strong> has committed to transfer to the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverines announced her commitment on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excited to welcome US Olympian and World Champion (Bella Sims) to Ann Arbor!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJmmNytSxJm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Michigan Swimming &amp; Diving (@umichswimdive)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bella Sims was an Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo as part of the 800 free relay. The has won three world championship medals on relays for the U.S. as well.<\/p>\n<p>Sims will have two remaining years of eligibility at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverines have not had a star of this magnitude in the past four years since NCAA champion <strong>Maggie Mac Neil<\/strong> transferred to LSU.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan has been rebuilding with solid pieces since and had a strong NCAA meet, finishing ninth. Add Sims to the mix and the Wolverines will continue to trend upward under coach<strong> Matt Bowe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman at Florida, Sims was the NCAA champion in both the 200 freestyle (1:40.90) and 500 free (4:32.47) in 2024 and took third in the 200 back (1:48.47).<\/p>\n<p>As a sophomore, Bella Sims focused on backstroke and finished second in the 100 back (49.12) and 200 back (1:47.11) at NCAAs in March.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she will join a Michigan team on the rise to return to a top five program in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/category\/college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More College News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Medalist, NCAA Champion Bella Sims Transfers to Michigan After two years swimming for the University of Florida, Olympian Bella Sims has committed to transfer to the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":592272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077,6],"tags":[126572,62493,1321],"class_list":["post-611911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","category-college","tag-bella-sims","tag-big-ten-swimming","tag-university-of-michigan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Bella Sims, Olympian, NCAA Champion Transfers to Michigan<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Olympic Medalist, NCAA Champion Bella Sims Transfers to Michigan. 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