Swimming still making waves, qualifying times

The Michigan's men's swimming and diving team has a reputation for being a strong team nationally as far as producing swimmers and divers.

Tom Dolan and Eric Namesnik are two of the most prominent names to arise from the program. Both were heavily favored in the 400 individual medley during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Dolan beat out Namesnik by less than a second to win the gold in one of NBC's nationally featured races.

Even after their graduations, the Michigan swim team still puts out NCAA qualifying and consideration times with a incredible consistency.

Senior Tom Malchow has scored NCAA consideration times in the 200 and 500 freestyle and the 200 butterfly.

Chris Thompson, a sophomore, has qualified for the NCAAs in the 1650 free and earned a consideration time in the 500 free.

In the breaststroke, sophomore Scott Werner nailed down two more consideration times in the 100 and 200.

Freshman Jason Mallory has also achieved consideration for the NCAAs in the 500 free and the 400 IM respectively.

All of these times were scored in the fall half of the season.

The diving team doesn't lack for success either, qualifying two divers, senior Brett Wilmot and junior Josh Trexler, for both the one and three-meter diving competition.

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