The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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66 THE WOLVERINE APRIL 2018 OLYMPIC SPORTS UPDATE Notable: Michigan finished in sixth place in the Big Ten Champi- onships Feb. 23-24. At the NCAA Indoor Championships March 9-10, Michigan tied for 45th in the country. Senior Joe Ellis was named a first- team All-American after finishing fifth in the weight throw final. WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD Best Performance — Feb. 23-24 at the Big Ten Championships in Geneva, Ohio: Senior Claire Kief- fer-Wright won the high jump title by tiebreaker, adding an indoor conference title to the outdoor high jump crown she won last spring. Senior Haley Meier became the ninth different Michigan woman to claim the Big Ten mile title and was joined at the podium by se- niors Claire Borchers (fourth place) and Hannah Meier (seventh place). Fifth-year senior Gina Sereno took third place in the 5,000 meters. The quartet of senior Meghan Marias, freshman Chloe Foster, sophomore Julia Hall and sophomore Jade Har- rison closed out the weekend with a school-record 3:37.88 in the 4x400- meter relay. MVP — Senior Claire Kieffer- Wright: She was the 2018 Big Ten Indoor champion in the high jump, and led the team at both the Big Ten and NCAA Championships. Honors: Fifth-year senior Erin Finn has been named a semifinalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Award, which honors the nation's top ama- teur athlete. Notable: Michigan did not have a team score at the NCAA Champi- onships, but Sereno earned second- team All-America honors by placing 15th in the 3,000 meters. Meier (mile), Kieffer-Wright (high jump) and se- nior Aaron Howell (pentathlon) were all also second-team All-Americans. WRESTLING (11-3 OVERALL, 7-2 BIG TEN) Best Performance — Jan. 27 at then-No. 4 Iowa: Michigan won the final four matches to erase a 10-point deficit and take home a 19-17 vic- tory. Fifth-year senior Adam Coon defeated then-No. 3 Sam Stoll in a 3-2 decision to clinch the meet. MVP — Fifth-year senior Adam Coon: The heavyweight finished the season 29-2 Both of his losses were to Ohio State's Kyle Snyder, the Olym- pic gold medalist and reigning world champion at 97 kilograms (just less than 214 pounds). In the dual meet with Ohio State, Coon gave Snyder, a senior and then two-time NCAA heavyweight champion, his only loss since his freshman season, and then lost to him 4-2 in two overtimes in WATER POLO: 22-7 OVERALL, 0-0 CWPA Senior attacker Carolina Anderson scored two goals and re- corded two assists in a 14-7 win at No. 13 Hartwick March 11, becoming the first athlete in school history to rack up 400 career points … Her heroics earned her CWPA Player of the Week recognition March 14 … Sophomore goalkeeper Heidi Ritner took home CWPA Defensive Player of the Week honors after tallying a 3-0 record in three straight contests March 10-11 … The March 14 CWPA poll pegged U-M at No. 9 in the country … Michigan recorded its 15th consecutive vic- tory with a 12-8 decision at No. 21 San Jose State March 17. BASEBALL: 7-11 OVERALL, 0-0 BIG TEN Michigan picked up its first sweep of the season March 16-18, when it took down Bowling Green in three straight contests. MEN'S GOLF Senior Kyle Mueller was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week Feb. 28 after winning the Southwestern Jones Invitational Feb. 27 … Freshman Charlie Pilon made eight birdies on his way to a career-best 3-under-par 69 in the first round of the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate March 3 … Michigan tied with Purdue for second place, while Mueller and Pilon were two of three golfers to share the event's individual title. WOMEN'S GOLF Freshman Ashley Kim recorded her first career top-20 finish at the Meadow Club Women's Collegiate March 6 in Fairfax, California, finishing in a tie for 18th (147 on a 36-hole total) … Sophomore Hannah Ghelfi tallied a career-best, 1-over-par 73 at the event. MEN'S GYMNASTICS: 7-3 OVERALL, 2-1 BIG TEN Although Michigan fell 405.200-394.900 at No. 3 Illinois Feb. 24, junior Emyre Cole managed to take home an event title on floor exercise (14.55 score) … The Wolverines had a successful trip to the International Collegiate Challenge March 3 in Palo Alto, Calif., taking down the Japanese Na- tional Team, No. 3 Illinois, No. 12 California and the Canadian National Team with a team score of 410.350 … U-M had season-high scores on floor exercise (71.45), pommel horse Sophomore goalkeeper Heidi Ritner was named the CWPA Defensive Player of the Week after leading U-M to victories over Brown, then- No. 17 Princeton and then-No. 13 Hartwick March 10-11. PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Updates On Olympic Sports In Progress