Michigan
Orange Bowl Classic
Wolverines Wrap Training Trip at Orange Bowl Classic
1/3/2019 1:20:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
» After a one-year hiatus, the Wolverines returned to the Florida Keys for their annual winter training trip and capped it with a victory at the Orange Bowl Classic.
» The Wolverines won and set new meet records in all 12 events.
» Siobhán Haughey, Catie DeLoof and Maggie MacNeil won two events each.
Site: Key Largo, Fla. (Jacobs Aquatic Center)
Event: Orange Bowl Classic
U-M Team Standing: 1st Place of 3 Teams (333 points)
Next U-M Event: Thursday, Jan. 17 -- at Indiana (Bloomington, Ind.), 2 p.m.
• Complete Results
KEY LARGO, Fla. -- The University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team opened the 2019 season with a win in the Orange Bowl Classic, held Thursday morning (Jan. 3) at the Jacobs Aquatic Center. The Wolverines scored 333 points, finishing ahead of Minnesota State (135) and Monmouth (38).
Back in the Florida Keys after a one-year hiatus, the Orange Bowl Classic serves as the finale to the team's annual winter training trip, culminating more than a week's worth of pool workouts, strength and conditioning, and team-building activities.
Michigan won and set meet records in all 12 events, going 1-2-3-4 in all but one individual event. Three swimmers each won two events: freshman Maggie MacNeil in the 50-meter butterfly (26.87) and 50-meter backstroke (27.36); senior Catie DeLoof in the 50-meter freestyle (25.68) and 100-meter backstroke (1:01.45) and senior Siobhán Haughey in the 100-meter freestyle (54.39) and 200-meter IM (2:14.26).
Other winners included senior Yirong Bi in the 400-meter freestyle (4:14.85), senior/junior Miranda Tucker in the 50-meter breaststroke (31.34), sophomore Emma Cleason in the 100-meter butterfly (1:01.79) and senior Jamie Yeung in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:09.13).
The Wolverines also swept both relays, taking the 200-meter medley relay in 1:52.28 (DeLoof, Yeung, MacNeil and sophomore Daria Pyshnenko) and the 200-meter freestyle relay in 1:44.00 (DeLoof, MacNeil, Haughey and Tucker).
The Wolverines will be back in action in two weeks, when they face rival Indiana on Thursday, Jan. 17, in Bloomington. The meet will begin at 2 p.m.
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