A whole lot Anticipated to Say Farewell to IM West at seventieth Anniversary MSU Swimming and Diving Alumni Meet

Courtesy: Battle for Spartan Swim and Dive

EAST LANSING – With the approaching demolition of the IM West constructing, the Michigan State University Swimming and Diving Alumni have deliberate one closing farewell to this system’s longtime house.

On Saturday, Sept. 12, the seventieth anniversary of the MSU Swimming and Diving Alumni Meet will splash down on the Charles McCaffree Pool at IM West. More than 400 former swimmers, divers, and their households have RSVP’d to attend. The meet will run from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The first Alumni Meet was held in 1956, three years earlier than McCaffree Pool opened at IM West and have become the ultimate house of the MSU Swimming and Diving program, which was eradicated following the 2020-21 season.

A variety of esteemed alumni plan to attend the ultimate Alumni Meet, together with:

• Gary Dilley (Class of 1967) — Silver medalist on the 1964 Olympic Games (200-meter backstroke); Four-time National Champion (100 and 200 backstroke); Eight-time Big Ten Champion; 12-time All-American; inducted in MSU Hall of Fame in 1995. NOTE: Dilley’s teammates Dennis Hill (1966) and Joe Buys (1966) are additionally planning to attend.
• Jane Manchester (Class of 1976) — Three-time National Champion (1-meter and 3-meter diving, AIAW); Three-time Big Ten Champion; All-American
• Mary (Rozman) Mueting (Class of 1987) — Five-time Big Ten Champion (50 freestyle, 500 freestyle, 200 and 400 freestyle relays); All-American
• Richard Crittenden (Class of 1970) — Two-time Big Ten Champion (50 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay); All-American
• Shawn Elkins (Class of 1978) — Two-time Big Ten Champion (200 butterfly) Bob Lundquist (Class of 1982) — Big Ten Champion (200 breaststroke)
• Steve Leissner (Class of 1992) — Big Ten Champion (200 particular person medley); All-American; George Alderton MSU Male Athlete of the Year (1991)
• Jami (Archambault) Anderson (Class of 1998) — Big Ten Champion (100 backstroke); All-American

It might be a bittersweet goodbye to the pool, named for Hall of Fame coach Charles McCaffree, or Coach Mac. MSU might be tearing down IM West in spring 2027. The closing years have seen the closing of the out of doors pool in 2018, the elimination of our program in October 2020, and now the ultimate days of our house since 1959.

Despite our present standing, the MSU Swimming and Diving alumni group has remained engaged, lively, and dedicated to the combat to reinstate the lads’s and ladies’s groups. The program’s legacy is unmatched, each in ardour and accolades. In its 99-year historical past, the MSU Swimming and Diving program produced numerous achievements, together with:

• 8 National Champions
• 127 Big Ten Champions (47 males’s, 80 girls’s)
• 474 All-Americans (405 males’s, 69 girls’s)
• 20 Olympic swimmers and divers
• Top crew GPA in U.S. (girls’s, 3.87) and No. 6 (males’s) in 2020

We are thrilled to welcome lots of of former swimmers and divers, and their households and pals, to have fun this legendary program and the individuals who drove its success, and reveal to Michigan State’s new athletic division management that they’ve a basis of assist prepared for a one hundredth season of MSU Swim and Dive. Go Green!

For extra info or questions concerning the seventieth Anniversary Alumni Meet, please attain out to Mindy Arbaugh ([email protected]).