W Swimming beats MSU 199-95 in annual thrashing

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

For the first time since 2007-08, the Michigan Women's Swimming & Diving team has finished with a perfect record in B1G competition. 

#15 Michigan did only what they know how to do against MSU--win, and win big.

In the 100+ point win, Michigan took 14 of 16 events, set two new pool records at McCaffrey Pool in East Lansing and have increased Michigan's winning streak against MSU to 27 straight. 

Michigan is now 37-2 against MSU all-time.

The Wolverines conclude the regular season at 9-2 overall and a 7-0 record against B1G teams. There is no regular season championship in the sport of Swimming awarded in the B1G.

The team will now take a week off to prepare for the B1G Championships which will be held in Columbus from February 18-21. 

Mike Bottom, the head coach of the Women's program who is also the head coach for the giant that is the Men's program, has done a pretty amazing job. Hasn't even been coaching the Women for two full seasons and has them as the favorite to win the B1G Championship.

Bottom's work is not done in EL this weekend. His #6 ranked Men's team takes on MSU tomorrow in pursuit of their 4th straight perfect regular season. 

J.Madrox

February 7th, 2015 at 9:16 AM ^

My wife was a college swim coach for a few years and most programs only have 1 coach for the mens and womens team. They usually practice together or on similar schedules and as WD said their meets also follow similar schedules.

I am sure its a lot of work, but I doubt he puts in that much more time than the coaches of the other Olympic sports at Michigan.

Wolverine Devotee

February 6th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^

10 of 14 have Men's Swimming & Diving while 13 of 14 have a Women's program. 

Maryland is the only who does not have a Women's team. They dropped their Men's and Women's programs a few years ago along with five other sports. 

One of the sports they dropped was Water Polo which drastically hurt Michigan's conference, the CWPA. It forced them to reshuffle and put tiny Notre Dame College in Michigan's division.

Yeah, you can imagine what happens next. NDC gets absolutely murdered every time they play the other Western Division schools. The lowest amount of goals Michigan has ever scored against them was 14. 

 

Zoltanrules

February 7th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^

I expect field hockey will follow swimming and gymnastics where we are top 10 nationally. Softball is another sport where we do unusually well in a sport that traditionally is not a midwest talent based sport.

Brandon did have a vision to be great at Sears Cup type sports but unceremoniously booted some good coaches who built programs.

MSU's swim program is terribly lacking in coaching and performance. I believe EMU beats them routinely.

The women's water polo team has a new coach from California ( Northridge?) to coach his team of 90% California women and are near the bottom of the top20, which is impressive. I think Indiana is the only Big10 school they play - with very few matches at Canham.

Men's water polo is club sport thanks to Title9. MSU did very well nationally and has epic battles with UM (one goal dramatic matches). Lots of local kids who pay to train like varsity athletes.

If you are into student athletes who play for the love of the game and school these are great events to attend (and parking is easy).