Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame (W) vs. Michigan
- October 18-19, 2024
- Ann Arbor, MI
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Scores
- Girls:
- #10 Michigan, 238 – #13 Wisconsin, 115
- #10 Michigan, 279 – NR Notre Dame, 68
- #13 Wisconsin, 223 – NR Notre Dame, 118
- Males:
- #14 Michigan, 261 – NR Wisconsin, 90
- Girls:
- Full Outcomes
The No. 10/13 Michigan girls’s and males’s groups collected their first twin meet wins of the 2024-25 marketing campaign. The Michigan males took down Wisconsin in a Massive Ten battle, whereas the ladies beat each Wisconsin and Notre Dame.
Michigan’s program’s two biggest strengths final season had been the ladies’s dash freestyle group and the lads’s butterfly. These teams each went to work on the meet, with the ladies’s dash group led by a robust efficiency from Lindsay Flynn. Over the two-day meet, Flynn swam 22.35/49.19 within the 50/100 freestyle. Sophomore Stephanie Balduccini now has a full season of yards expertise beneath her belt and had good performances as effectively, swimming 22.63/49.27/1:46.89 within the 50/100/200 free.
Flynn additionally cut up a 21.78 50 freestyle on the 200 freestyle and 200 medley relays. Balduccini (22.63), Brady Kendall (22.10), Claire Newman (22.13), and Flynn (21.78) mixed for a 1:28.64 to blow away the sector within the occasion and rank because the quickest within the league this season.
Within the 200 medley relay, Flynn teamed with Casey Chung (24.88 again), Letitia Sim (27.56 breast), and Kendall (23.29 fly) for a 1:37.51 to win the occasion. In each relays, Michigan took the highest two spots.
Rebecca Diaconescu received the five hundred freestyle, however Wisconsin’s Maggie Waggoner prevented a Wolverine freestyle sweep by profitable the 1000 freestyle in 9:54.36.
2x Olympian Phoebe Bacon and freshman Maggie Wanezek highlighted the meet for the Wisconsin girls, who misplaced to Michigan however picked up the win in opposition to Notre Dame. The pair went 1-2 within the 200 backstroke, with Bacon profitable in 1:55.61 and Wanezek ending second in 1:56.54.
Bacon received two different particular person occasions over the two-day meet, taking the 200 IM with a 1:58.50 and the 200 fly in 1:57.37. She additionally completed second within the 100 fly (53.64) with a field-best 27.72 on the second 50 however ran out of room to catch Michigan’s Natalie Kan and ended up second, .28 seconds again.
Wanezek received the person 100 backstroke in 53.59 however her greatest time within the occasion got here main off the 400 medley relay, the primary occasion of the meet, the place she opened in 52.88.
Notre Dame newcomer and “Better of the Relaxation” recruit Carli Cronk continued to shine in her first collegiate season. Cronk received the ladies’s 400 IM in 4:15.53, leaping into this system’s all-time prime 10 at #8. Cronk owns a lifetime better of 4:12.35, so she ought to proceed to ascend these rankings. She additionally turned in a season-best 1:48.10 for second within the 200 free and logged a top-four end within the 200 fly (2:00.57).
NCAA scorer Tyler Ray swept the butterfly occasions on the lads’s aspect of the meet. Now a junior, Ray swam 46.88 within the 100 fly, main a 1-2 end for the Wolverines. That’s virtually a second quicker than he was at this meet final season, highlighting the enhancements he’s made prior to now yr (at this level final season, Ray had by no means damaged 46 seconds within the occasion).
He made it a sweep by profitable the 200 fly in 1:45.56, this time main a top-three sweep for Michigan as Colin Geer (1:46.91) and Lorne Wigginton (1:47.91) earned second and third.
Geer received two occasions of his personal, touching first within the 200 IM (1:46.20) and 200 breast (2:00.10), swimming a lifetime greatest within the latter.
Wigginton arrived in Ann Arbor contemporary off an Olympic debut for Group Canada and has been a robust pickup for the Wolverines to date, including pace within the IMs and 200 fly. Wigginton received the 400 IM in 3:49.59 and was simply off his lifetime greatest from a February 2023 yards meet (3:49.15) in simply his third time swimming the occasion. He additionally logged 1:47.89 for third within the 200 IM, practically catching Eitan Ben-Shitrit for 2nd with a 24.99 free cut up.
With Eduardo Moraes profitable the 200/500 freestyle, freshman Jon Jontvedt taking the 1000 free, U.S. Olympic Trials Jack Wilkening profitable the 100 again, and Ben-Shitrit, Bence Szabados, and Gal Cohen Groumi profitable occasions as effectively, the Michigan males received all however two occasions.
Their streak acquired snapped with a disqualification within the 200 free relay, which allowed Wisconsin’s Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (20.59), Ben Wiegand (19.37), Chris Morris (20.19), and Sam Lorenz (20.32) to take the win in 1:20.47.
Wiegand additionally received the lads’s 100 breaststroke. After going out simply .04 seconds behind Ozan Kalafat, Wiegand cut up 29.33 on the second 50 yards to cross Kalafat for the win in 55.19.
Up Subsequent
On Oct. 23, the Notre Dame girls face Indiana in Bloomington. Wisconsin heads dwelling to host an undefeated Minnesota squad on Nov. 1. Michigan takes on Oakland at dwelling on Nov. 8.
