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The College of Michigan has acquired their first dedication for his or her ladies’s class of 2026. Hong Kong’s Gilaine Ma has verbally dedicated to the Wolverines. Ma, a member of Hong Kong’s 2024 World Championships crew, competes for the Diocesan Women’ College in Hong Kong.
I’m past excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my swimming and educational profession within the college of Michigan. I wish to thank my household, DGS, all of the coaches, mates and teammates for supporting me on this journey. And in addition million due to Coach Bryon and coach Matt for giving me this chance . Can’t wait to be Michigan wolverine! Go Blue!💙〽️ – Gilaine Ma
Ma competed on the 2024 World Championships in Doha, the place she was a member of Hong Kong’s ladies’s 4×200 free relay, and competed individually within the 400 free, the place she positioned twenty ninth.
Private Finest Occasions, Lengthy Course Meters (LCM)
- 50 free – 25.81
- 100 free – 55.96
- 200 free – 2:01.46
- 400 free – 4:17.22
- 800 free – 9:06.87
- 100 fly – 1:04.43
Ma is a proficient freestyler who excels from the 50 all over the 400. For context on the place her occasions stack up in opposition to home recruits, amongst American 16-year-olds this previous season Ma would have ranked eighth within the 50 free, seventh within the 100 free, eighth within the 200 free, and seventh within the 400 free. That’s not an ideal comparability, as American swimmers who have been 16 this previous season can symbolize a number of highschool lessons, nonetheless, it does give a common thought of the place Ma’s LCM occasions stack up.
Ma is the primary recruit of Michigan’s ladies’s class of 2026, so we don’t but know what the remainder of the category will seem like, nonetheless, she’ll be capable to instantly make an impression for the Wolverines within the dash and middle-distance free occasions.
Whereas it was below a earlier teaching employees, Michigan has performed nicely with Hong Kong swimmers earlier than. Siobhan Haughey, who was a Wolverine from 2015-2019, is Hong Kong’s most embellished Olympian in any sport. In reality, Haughey’s 2 silver and a couple of bronze medals account for 4 of the 13 complete Olympic medals Hong Kong has received in it’s historical past throughout all sports activities. Nonetheless a program file holder for the Wolverines, Haughey was a 15-time Huge Ten Champion, 14-time All-American, and 11-time All-America Honorable Point out throughout her collegiate profession at Michigan. Haughey is at present the most effective ladies’s freestylers on the earth and holds 25 Hong Kong Nationwide Data.
Additionally in Haughey’s class at Michigan was Jamie Yeung, who represented Hong Kong on the Tokyo 2020 (2021) Olympics earlier than retiring. In her senior season, Yeung completed tenth within the 100 breast on the NCAA Championships, swimming her profession better of 59.04 within the occasion.
Michigan received 3-straight ladies’s Huge Ten title whereas Haughey and Yeung have been on the crew, profitable in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Final season was Michigan’s first below head coach Matt Bowe and his employees. The Wolverines got here in third on the 2024 Girls’s Huge Ten Championships, matching their end from the 2023. Although they matched their end at Huge Tens, Michigan made an enormous step ahead at NCAAs final season, ending twelfth with 147.5 factors, which was 11 locations greater and 115.5 extra factors than 2023.
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