M Magazine - Winter 2011 Edition
While we anxiously await the announcement of the new [Greg Mattison] defensive [Greg Mattison] coordinator [Greg Mattison] and maintain an open tab with TomVH's Twitter feed (you're not doing that? Sure, you're not.) to find out about the latest (de)commitments, take the opportunity to flip through the Winter 2011 edition of M Magazine, the Michigan Athletic Department's official souvenir program.
This edition contains several nice features:
- Wolverines to Watch (Veronica Hicks, Basketball; Adrienne Bicek, Swimming; A.J. Treais, Hockey; Chris Cameron, Gymnastics; Jillian Smith, Track and Field; Dan Madwed, Swimming)
- The Big Chill at the Big House
- Water Polo’s Senior Plan: Winning it All, Together
- Why? (Trish Wilson, Gymnastics)
- The Peace Corps: It All Started Here
- Carved in Stone
- The Two Sides of Denard Robinson
- Ask the Athlete
What I learned:
- Michigan has some truly amazing student athletes in many more sports than just football, men's basketball and hockey (in truth, I already knew that).
- Denard Robinson is awesome (see above).
- Evan Smotrycz has never had a job (other than playing basketball). Srsly.
- The stone carver who fashioned the replacement "M" medallions for Yost Ice Arena is very skillful. Check out the video embedded in the online magazine that details the process. Very cool, indeed.
- Michigan will host the 2011 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships at Canham Natatorium in May. Here's hoping it creates a huge home pool advantage for the team.
- Trish Wilson is a warrior of the first order and a true Wolverine.
January 18th, 2011 at 4:25 PM ^
The Two Sides of Denard Robinson: Fast, and faster?
January 18th, 2011 at 4:27 PM ^
Stationary and blur.
January 18th, 2011 at 4:32 PM ^
near and far?
January 18th, 2011 at 4:42 PM ^
(they're really one side)
January 18th, 2011 at 4:52 PM ^
Awesome and wicked awesome.
January 18th, 2011 at 5:00 PM ^
Mach 1 and Mach 2
January 18th, 2011 at 4:55 PM ^
far and further
January 18th, 2011 at 5:19 PM ^
Victorious and Victoriouser.
January 18th, 2011 at 5:35 PM ^
Leader and Legend
January 18th, 2011 at 4:47 PM ^
Don't think your link to the mag works.
January 18th, 2011 at 5:08 PM ^
...the heads up. Fixed.
January 18th, 2011 at 4:53 PM ^
is definitely a wolverine to watch. I'm pretty sure that not a whole bunch of people get really into womens basketball around here, but damn she's good.
I've been to a couple games so far including the game against Wisconsin this past weekend where she hit five 3's, scored 21 points.
January 18th, 2011 at 4:51 PM ^
New thing I've learned today: today's college students love Sandra Bullock.
January 18th, 2011 at 5:10 PM ^
I hope hosting the water polo tourney helps. It might sound stupid, but it is an advantage. Much like every stadium is different that goes for pools. I remeber playing in tourneys where the pool had a strange taste or really strong chlorine.
January 18th, 2011 at 5:36 PM ^
Lloyd Brady makes a cameo in the M Magazine. The Denard article, page 26.
January 18th, 2011 at 7:29 PM ^
...on Lloyd Brady. IIRC, that's from the UConn game - the first time we became aware of Lloyd's existence.