Sam Wensman – Girls’s Swimming & Diving Coach

Sam Wensman wrapped up his sixth season as assistant coach for the University of Michigan males’s and girls’s swimming and diving packages. Prior to 2016-17, Wensman spent three years (2014-16) because the volunteer assistant coach and two years (2012-13) as a program assistant. He additionally coached skilled swimmers with Club Wolverine Elite main into the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, particularly serving to Junya Koga to a place on the Japanese Olympic Team in 2016. Wensman can also be the director of recruiting for each the lads’s and girls’s swim workforce.  

During the 2021-22 season, Wensman coached Big Ten Champions Gal Groumi and Jared Daigle within the 200 IM and 400 IM respectively. Wensman additionally labored intently with breastroker Will Chan. Chan completed fourth within the 100 breast and eighth within the 50 free. At the NCAA Championships, he helped coach freshman Gal Groumi (would not have to be bolded) to a tenth-place end within the 100 fly the place he tied the varsity report. Groumi Also completed eleventh within the 200 IM which broke the varsity report. On the ladies’s aspect, Wensman helped coach Victoria Kwan and Olivia Carter to a seventh and eighth place end within the 200 IM on the Big Ten Championships. In the 400 IM Kathryn Ackerman and Victoria Kwan completed fourth and fifth and Claire Donan completed 14th. In the 100 breast he helped coach Letitia Sim to a third-place end and within the 200 breast to a sixth-place end. 

Wensman has labored intently with the breaststroke and medley group, serving to many members attain super heights. In 2020, Tommy Cope gained the Big Ten title and set a college report within the 200-yard breaststroke, Jeremy Babinet ascended to 3rd at school historical past within the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes, and Charlie Swanson to second all time within the 200 breaststroke. At the tip of the 2020-21 season, 9 of the highest 10 greatest instances in Michigan males’s swimming historical past within the 200 breaststroke, and eight of the highest ten instances within the 100 breaststroke had been coached by Wensman.  

Wensman additionally has worldwide teaching expertise. In 2016 he coached Junya Koga at Japanese Olympic Trials to a roster spot on Japan’s Olympic workforce within the 4×100 freestyle relay.  In July 2017, he coached Felix Auböck on the FINA World Championships in Budapest, guiding the Austrian to finals berths within the 400- and 800-meter freestyles. 

Wensman, a local of Durham, N.H., was a four-year letterwinner for the Wolverines, swimming from 2008-11 and specializing within the breaststroke. During his tenure, Wensman helped Michigan win three Big Ten titles (2008-09, 2011) and end among the many high 10 on the NCAA Championships all 4 years.

Wensman graduated from Michigan in 2011 with a level in sport administration.