Girls Swim & Dive

Hannah Williams doesn't mind flying under the radar. In fact, the Portage Northern sophomore has thrived in the underdog role. Williams went from virtually an unknown freshman to shocking nearly everyone including herself with a pair of individual titles at Satur...

The Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood girls swimming & diving team had waited nearly a year for a chance to make amends.  So, what was another two months of waiting? 

It was a moment that was long overdue for the Ann Arbor Pioneer girls swimming & diving team. And this time, they left nothing to chance.

Swimming may be the sport most reliant on a training schedule, with athletes purposefully prepping for a specific championship day. This season’s plan dissolved in November for Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals participants – but in its p...

The Oakland County girls swim & dive meet in October perfectly highlighted the luxury Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood enjoys this season. Depth is always great for any team – but it’s also nice to have two swimmers capable of winning one-third of...

The Fenton High School swimming pool isn’t named after Gracie Olsen. The program’s record board only makes it look that way. Olsen, a junior, owns seven of the eight individual school records at Fenton, and she has her eyes on the eighth -- the 100-yard bac...

It’s not easy to repeat as Upper Peninsula champions, and that was proven again Saturday afternoon as the Marquette girls swimming & diving team navigated a tough battle with Sault Ste. Marie. However, the Redettes prevailed, earning 377 points to the Blue De...

Grand Haven's Kathryn Ackerman will graduate next spring as one of the most accomplished athletes in her school's history and one of the top high school swimmers in Michigan all-time.  She won her fourth and fifth individual MHSAA Finals championships at Saturday&...

Who says you can’t do any gardening in November? It certainly worked for the Birmingham Seaholm girls swimming & diving team.

This one was for the coach.  The East Grand Rapids girls swimming & diving team drove across the state this weekend to Oakland University to attempt to repeat as Lower Peninsula Division 3 champion without a key figure: legendary head coach Butch Briggs.

This weekend’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Girls Swimming & Diving Final came down to a back-and-forth tussle between Farmington Hills Mercy and Ann Arbor Pioneer. In the end, the winner was decided by less than a point.

This weekend’s Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals will welcome a handful of reigning title winners and even a few record holders from past championship meets. As is often true, the team races will feature annual powers among the forecasted contende...

Shawn Maison said he started to see things turn around for Standish-Sterling’s girls swimming & diving team when athletes who had come up through the youth program began to populate his team. Now he’s doing what he can to make sure that keeps happening.

When Paul Mahar was hired to coach at Loy Norrix High School, he had nine returning swimmers on a team of just 14 girls. That was in 2004, and the program was on the verge of becoming a co-op with Kalamazoo Central High School. But Mahar turned the girls swimming &...

This edition of State Champs Sports Network's “Clip of the Week” features Battle Creek Lakeview distance swimmer Grace Hudson, who won two events at the All-City Meet.

  This edition of State Champs Sports Network's “Clip of the Week” features a close swim finish in the 100-yard breaststroke as Battle Creek Lakeview's Alaya Marshall earns the win by 12 hundredths of a second.

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis explains a new rule in swimming that allows for more flexibility when determining when a competitor has finished a race.

DeWitt swim standout Jordyn Shipps won the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.91) and 100 butterfly (58.77) at her team’s DeWitt Invitational on Saturday against a field that included ranked teams Chelsea and Grand Rapids Northview.  Although the season is only a few ...

What a sports year. There certainly have been some amazing athletic feats over the 2018-19 high school season in Michigan, and it’s just two-thirds of the way complete.

It was a dominating performance by the Marquette girls to say the least as they ran away with the Upper Peninsula swimming & diving title with 352 points Saturday. “We’ve been kind of waiting for this,” said junior Mollie Kilpela. “That got ...