The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
Issue link: https://comanpub.uberflip.com/i/152358
Fantastic Freshmen Impact Rookies To Watch In Men's Olympic Sports M By Geoff Chiles ichigan adds some incred‑ ibly talented freshman classes for the 2013‑14 campaign. On the men's side, wrestling and soccer have top10 classes, and the other teams bring in athletes with tremendous poten‑ tial. Here is the tale of the tape for these newcomers who will wear the Maize and Blue. Jason Chen, swimming: U-M head coach Mike Bottom described last year's national championship team as "a train going full-speed ahead," with himself as the conductor. There's no telling where this year's "train" may go, but another national championship is a possibility. This year's team will be buoyed by the addition of Amador Valley High School's Jason Chen. A Pleas‑ anton, Calif., native, Chen primarily swims the backstroke and recently was awarded All-America status in the 100-yard butterfly and back‑ stroke. Chen shattered many (of his own) backstroke records at Amador Valley, and graduated with nine AllAmerica laurels in his high school career — good for second-most in school history. CollegeSwimming.com ranks Chen as the fifth-best swimmer in the state of California and the 41st-best overall recruit in the 2013 class. Reed Hyrnewich, golf: The golf pro‑ gram continues to build a foundation for the future. Its blue-chip signing of this year's class is a local product that also played ice hockey. On the golf course, however, Hyrnewich is the state of Michigan's No. 1 player and the No. 40 overall prospect na‑ tionally, according to National Junior Golf Scorecard. Hyrnewich, a Muskegon native, is a three-time member of the Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches' Asso‑ ciation Superteam (2010, 2011 and 2013). Already a lifetime member of the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame, the scholar-athlete carried a 4.3 GPA and was named a 2012‑13 finalist for both the MHSAA and De‑ troit Athletic Club's Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards. Hyrnewich also valued team per‑ formance, leading Mona Shores High School to a third-place finish in the