Michigan Dominant Against Wisconsin and Notre Dame Women in Two-Day Tri-Meet
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.
The Michigan women started the meet by winning the 400 medley relay by more than two seconds. Casey Chung, Letitia Sim, Natalie Kan and Stephanie Balduccini clocked 3:34.24. Lindsay Flynn 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.
Balduccini took out the 200 free in 1:46.89, and she led off a team also including Brady Kendall, Claire Newman and Flynn that won the 200 free relay by two-and-a-half seconds in 1:28.64 to conclude Friday’s action.
Saturday opened up in similar fashion, with Chung, Sim, Kendall and Flynn clocking 1:37.51 to win the 200 medley relay, followed by Rebecca Diaconescu 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).
In diving, Michigan’s Kiarra Millian won on 1-meter (272.20) and 3-meter (331.45), with Balduccini, Newman, Leila Fack and Flynn completing the dominant meet with a win in the 400 free relay (3:17.04).
For Wisconsin, Phoebe Bacon took three wins, in the 200 backstroke (1:55.61), 200 IM (1:58.50) and 200 fly (1:57.37). Maddie Waggoner 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 clocked 53.59 as she finished atop the 100 back. For Notre Dame, Carli Cronk topped the 400 IM in 4:15.53.
The men’s meet began with a four-second Michigan win in the 400 medley relay, with a time of 3:11.65 courtesy of Jack Wilkening, Jaeddan Gamilla, Gal Cohen Groumi and Bence Szabados. Jon Jontvedt scored first-place points in the 1000 free (9:06.46), followed by Eitan Ben-Shitrit winning the 200 back (1:45.95) and Szabados breaking 20 in the 50 free (19.73).
Addition wins Friday came courtesy of Colin Geer (200 breast, 2:00.01), Tyler Ray (100 fly, 46.88), Eduardo Moraes (200 free, 1:37.04) and Lorne Wigginton (400 IM, 3:49.59), but Wisconsin broke through with a win in the 200 free relay to end the session. Taiko Torepe-Ormsby, Ben Wiegand, Chris Morris and Sam Lorenz clocked a time of 1:20.47.
Michigan got back on top to begin the action Saturday, with Wilkening, Ozan Kalafat, Ray and Szabados winning the 200 medley relay in 1:26.66. Moraes completed the mid-distance double with a time of 4:22.26 in the 500 free, followed by Geer doubling up in the 200 IM (1:46.20) and Cohen Groumi claiming his first individual win in the 100 free (44.04).
Wilkening came in first in the 100 back (47.58), and Ray won his second butterfly event, clocking 1:45.56 over 200 yards. Meanwhile, the only individual win for Wisconsin came from Ben Wiegand in the 100 breast (55.19).
Diving wins went to Michigan’s Cameron Gammage on 1-meter (334.45) and 3-meter (354.10). Szabados, Wilkening, Cohen Groumi and Geer rounded out the meet with a 2:55.95 win in the 400 free relay.