Michigan
Big Ten Championships
Michigan Finishes Second at Big Ten Championships
3/1/2025 11:46:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Site: Minneapolis, Minn. (Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center)
Event: Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships (Day 4 of 4)
U-M Team Result: 2nd Place of 9 Teams (1,148 Points)
Next U-M Event: Sunday, March 9 -- at Last Chance Meet, TBA
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- The No. 10-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team wrapped up the Big Ten Championships, finishing second with 1,148 points on Saturday (March 1) at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. Indiana took the team title with 1,579 points.
The Maize and Blue placed eight swimmers into championship finals in the final preliminary session of the meet. Cameron Gammage also punched his ticket to the consolation final in the platform dive.
Gammage tallied a score of 313.35 to finish 10th overall and get U-M off to a strong start.
In the swimming pool, Jon Jøntvedt started the final session of the week with a seventh-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle, posting a time of 14:53.99. In the 200-yard backstroke, Jack Wilkening took fourth with a time of 1:40.34. Inbar Danziger finished seventh with a mark of 1:42.85 while Eitan Ben-Shitrit grabbed eighth with a time of 1:43.76.
Gal Groumi and Bence Szabados represented the Maize and Blue in the 100-yard freestyle. Groumi finished fifth with a mark of 42.01 seconds and Szabados secured eighth overall with a time of 42.63. Ozan Kalafat took eighth in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall at 1:53.10.
Michigan's best individual swim of the night came in the 200-yard butterfly. Colin Geer outraced the field and clocked a time of 1:39.58 to capture the Big Ten title. Michigan has won the event in back-to-back years after Groumi won in 2024. Tyler Ray also reached the podium, taking bronze with a time of 1:40.55.
The team of Geer, Groumi, Szabados and Wilkening wrapped up the meet with a bronze medal in the 400-yard freestyle relay, logging a time of 2:48.91. U-M earned a top-three finish in all five relays during the meet.
Up next, select Michigan swimmers will aim for NCAA Championships qualification at the Last Chance Meet on Sunday, March 9. Location and start time are to be determined.
Final Standings
1. No. 2 Indiana 1,579 2. NO. 10 MICHIGAN 1,148 3. No. 14 Ohio State 1,100 4. No. 16 USC 878 5. No. 24 Minnesota 794.5 6. Wisconsin 735 7. Northwestern 711 8. Purdue 597 9. Penn State 512.5
Big Ten Postseason Awards
Swimmer of the Championships: Owen McDonald, Indiana
Diver of the Championships: Jordan Rzepka, Purdue
First Team
Luke Barr, Indiana
Brian Benzing, Indiana
Finn Brooks, Indiana
Quinn Henniger, Indiana
Tomer Frankel, Indiana
Matthew King, Indiana
Mikkel Lee, Indiana
Joshua Matheny, Indiana
Owen McDonald, Indiana
Zalán Sárkány, Indiana
Dylan Smiley, Indiana
Colin Geer, Michigan
Tyler Ray, Michigan
Bence Szabados, Michigan
Jack Wilkening, Michigan
Tristan Jankovics, Ohio State
Matthew Klinge, Ohio State
Tomas Navikonis, Ohio State
Jordan Rzepka, Purdue
Krzystof Chmielewski, USC
Benjamin Dillard, USC
Luke Maurer, USC
Oliver Sogaard-Andersen, USC
Mortiz Wesemann, USC
Second Team
Miroslav Knedla, Indiana
Carson Tyler, Indiana
Jassen Yep, Indiana
Gal Groumi, Michigan
Ozan Kalafat, Michigan
Eduardo Moraes, Michigan
Jacob Johnson, Minnesota
YuTong Wang, Minnesota
Daniel Baltes, Ohio State
Mason Edmund, Ohio State
Cornelius Jahn, Ohio State
Tristan Jankovics, Ohio State
Mario McDonald, Ohio State
Alex Metzler, Ohio State
Jordi Vilchez, Ohio State
Mortiz Wesemann, USC
Christopher Morris, Wisconsin
Cooper Scharff, Wisconsin
Taiko Torepe-Ormsby, Wisconsin
Ben Wiegand, Wisconsin
All-Freshman Team
Miroslav Knedla, Indiana
Joshua Sollenberger, Indiana
Jon Jøntvedt, Michigan
William Savarese, Michigan
Lorne Wigginton, Michigan
Jacob Johnson, Minnesota
Jozsef Polyak, Minnesota
Joshua Staples, Northwestern
Cornelius Jahn, Ohio State
Matthew Klinge, Ohio State
Jordi Vilchez, Ohio State
Kaden Springfield, Purdue
Zach Welsh, Purdue
Tyler Wills, Purdue
Junhao Chan, USC
Diggory Dillingham, USC
Oliver Sogaard-Andersen, USC
Samuel Lorenz, Wisconsin
Yoav Romano, Wisconsin
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