Wolverines End Third at Inaugural College Swimming League Meet

» Lorne Wigginton led the Michigan males with three particular person victories, sweeping the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle.

» Hannah Bellard and Bella Sims every earned a person victory and a runner-up end, whereas Colin Geer and Antoine Sauve added wins for the Wolverines.

» Michigan’s girls’s Super Skins quartet of Sims, Sarah Pasquella, Leila Fack and Lexi Greenhawt superior by all 4 rounds to complete second within the last.

Site: Westmont, Ill. (FMC Natatorium)

Event: College Swimming League Match #1

U-M Team Result: third Place of 4 Teams (420.5 Points)

Next U-M Event: Friday, Sept. 25 — TEAM BE BETTER; Invitational (Canham Natatorium), 3 p.m.

WESTMONT, Ill. — The University of Michigan swimming crew completed third with 420.5 factors on Thursday (Sept. 24) on the inaugural College Swimming League (CSL) occasion at FMC Natatorium. The four-team CSL format combines males’s and ladies’s outcomes into one crew rating and options conventional occasions together with elimination-style Skins and Super Skins races.

Senior Hannah Bellard gained the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:36.54 and added a runner-up end within the 200-yard butterfly (1:53.53).

Michigan’s Big Ten Male Swimmer to Watch Lorne Wigginton led the Michigan males with three victories, taking first within the 500-yard freestyle (4:15.58), 200-yard butterfly (1:43.48) and 200-yard freestyle (1:34.36).

Bella Sims gained the 200-yard particular person medley in 1:54.82 and positioned second within the 100-yard particular person medley (52.69).

U-M added two extra victories as Colin Geer gained the boys’s 100-yard particular person medley (47.08) and Antoine Sauve captured the 100-yard freestyle (42.97).

Lexi Greenhawt took second within the 100-yard backstroke (51.04), whereas Ryan Healy earned runner-up honors within the males’s 200-yard particular person medley (1:45.24).

The Wolverines closed the meet with their girls’s Super Skins quartet of Sims, Sarah Pasquella, Leila Fack and Greenhawt advancing by all 4 rounds and ending second within the last. The CSL Super Skins format begins with eight 200-yard medley relay groups, with groups eradicated over 4 rounds till two stay within the last.

The males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups will each be again in motion on Friday (Sept. 25) inside Canham Natatorium for the TEAM BE BETTER; Invitational that includes Hope and Calvin. The occasion will start at 3 p.m. and stream dwell on B1G+.