Women's Swimming - NCAA's
Tied for tenth after 200 IM, where we got a 12th place finish. This swimmer, Siobheann Houghey (Happy Saint Patrick's Day!), and the the fifth place finisher in the 500, Rose Bi, are freshmen.
Seventh in 50 free by Ali Deloof gets us to eight place. Blazing fast swim (21.99). Winner busted out an NCAA record 21.21.
Might be good place to check out for recruiting.
There's a lot of good talent over there for swimming.
Siobahn Haughey is from Hong Kong. She was the B1G Swimmer of the Championships and essentially is what ultimately gave Michigan the B1G Championship this year with her great performances.
This blog is a great way to share additional info that you won't get in regular articles.
Yirong Bi, who joined the team in January or February, is also from China, and M likely would not have won the B1G without her contributions. There've been fast swimmers out of China -- particularly women's swimmers -- for 20-ish years now, but they traditionally haven't gone to American universities. It looks like that's starting to change.
It's harder to recruit Chinese divers, because there's a tradition of diving excellence there. There are probably fewer divers than swimmers who would see a transition to an American coach as an upgrade.
We have a good young team. Big Ten championships to follow, but we don't have the star power (yet) to beat the Stanfords and Georgias.
March 18th, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^
#GoBlue X2
Wolverine in Iowa's assessment of this is accurate -- we don't have the star power (yet.) A lot of this has to do with depth. Relay victories are worth twice as much as individual victories, for example, and our relays are not quite fast enough to make the "A" finals.
I do think that this situation will improve as recruits begin to see how well swimmers are developing at M.