Season Evaluation: 2025-26 Michigan Men’s Swimming and Diving

Record: 8-4, 2-2 Big Ten Conferece

Big Ten Championships: 2nd Place (1,208 factors)

NCAA Championships: eighth Place (220 factors)

The University of Michigan males’s swimming and diving crew noticed large progress within the third yr of the Matt Bowe period. The Wolverines completed second on the Big Ten Championships for the second consecutive season and posted their finest NCAA end in almost a decade.

Team Highlights

• The Wolverines opened the season on a tear, defeating their first 5 opponents, together with two Big Ten foes, to go to the midseason meet with an ideal 5-0 document.

• The Maize and Blue took half within the first-ever CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge in Knoxville, Tenn. U-M took on Virginia and host Tennessee as a part of the four-team match and got here away with two wins over UVA to say third place.

• Following the common season, Michigan trekked to Madison, Wis., for the Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. The Wolverines noticed a number of gold medals captured and quite a few information fall on the way in which to their second runner-up end in as a few years.

• Seven swimmers earned a spot on the NCAA Championships for particular person occasions in Atlanta, Ga. Behind robust swims throughout all 4 days, the Maize and Blue completed eighth total, marking the most effective crew end because the 2017-18 season. Eight Wolverines earned All-America honors.

Individual Highlights

• Senior Tyler Ray shone in his closing yr with this system, setting three new faculty information (50-yard freestyle, 100- and 200-yard butterfly) and capturing two particular person Big Ten titles to earn Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships, the second Wolverine in three seasons to perform the feat. At the NCAA Championships, Ray earned a bronze medal within the 200 fly and landed on the All-America crew.

• Freshman Luka Mladenovic made an impression from the primary meet of the season. He set new program marks within the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke and took Big Ten titles in each occasions, the primary Wolverine to comb the breaststroke occasions since Scott Spann in 2008. Mladenovic received bronze within the 200 breast on the NCAA Championships to earn All-America distinction.

• Sophomore Lorne Wigginton took a giant step ahead in 2025-26, highlighted by a brand new faculty document within the 400-yard particular person medley, toppling a mark that had stood for 17 years. Wigginton was versatile in his second yr with this system, putting within the prime eight on the Big Ten Championships in three completely different occasions, together with silver within the 400 IM.

• Jack Wilkening rounded out the person document breakers with a brand new faculty mark within the 100-yard backstroke and decreasing his personal faculty document. He was additionally a helpful a part of 4 relay groups that set new faculty information and positioned within the prime eight on the NCAA Championships.

Honors and Awards

Ole
Eidam

Colin
Geer

Luka
Mladenovic

Tyler
Ray

Emmitt
Reesor

Antoine
Suave

Lorne
Wigginton

Jack
Wilkening

NCAA

All-America (First Team): Eitan Ben-Shitrit, Ole Eidam, Colin Geer, Luka Mladenovic, Tyler Ray, Antoine Sauve, Lorne Wigginton, Jack Wilkening

College Sports Communicators

Academic All-District Team: Eitan Ben-Shitrit, Ole Eidam, Colin Geer, Tyler Ray

Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships: Tyler Ray

All-Big Ten (First Team): Ole Eidam, Luka Mladenovic, Tyler Ray, Emmitt Reesor, Antoine Sauve, Jack Wilkening

All-Big Ten (Second Team): Colin Geer, Lorne Wigginton

All-Big Ten (Freshman Team): Luka Mladenovic, Emmitt Reesor, Antoine Sauve

Sportsmanship Award: Ryan Hume

Academic All-Big Ten

Eitan Ben-Shitrit, Sr., Computer Science

Inbar Danziger, So., Statistics

Ole Eidam, So., LSA Undeclared

Jaden Ficklen, Jr., Film, Television and Media

Jaeddan Gamilla, Jr., Computer Engineering

Colin Geer, Jr., Economics

Henry Gray, So., Business Administration

Logan Hepner, Jr., Applied Exercise Science

Rian Herrmann, So., Business Administration

Ozan Kalafat, Sr., Business Administration

Matt Kroll, Sr., Aerospace Engineering

Jack Luken, Sr., Movement Science

Tyler Ray, Sr., Business Administration

William Savarese, So., Business Administration

Tyler Tannenberger, So., Business Administration

Matthew Walsh Hussey, So., LSA Undeclared

Lorne Wigginton, So., LSA Undeclared

Jack Wilkening, Sr., Biomedical Engineering

Logan Zucker, Sr., Business Administration