Miguel Ortiz after a very impressive triple for the Michigan Wolverines on night 2 of the 2013 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
200 Medley Relay, as reported by Braden Keith:
The Michigan men continued one of the most mesmerizing and amazing seasons in college swimming history on Friday night by not only winning the 200 medley relay, but doing so in record fashion with a 1:22.27. The team of Miguel Ortiz, Bruno Ortiz, Sean Fletcher, and Zach Turk combined for the new NCAA Record swim, breaking Auburn’s old mark of 1:27.36 set by Auburn in 2009. (Read more about that record here).
When Michigan was a 1:24 at their “first chance” meet just before Big Tens, many hoped they were done. They were a 1:23 at Big Tens. Many thought they had to be done. But they took this swim down another full second at this meet. There was never really even much of a challenge on this relay. As soon as you saw sophomore Bruno Ortiz split 23.07 on his breaststroke, faster than Kevin Cordes of Arizona did, you knew that this one was in-the-bag.
Turk, just as he did for so many years for Division III power Kenyon, brought the Wolverines home with an 18.45 split to take the victory. That makes Turk both an NCAA Champion and record holder at both the Division I and Division III level.
100 Fly
Michigan’s Miguel Ortiz just missed breaking his own school record for the 4th time of the meet when he went a 45.49 (.01 off of his prelims swim). For the elder Ortiz brother, that’s a trio of 4th-place finishes individually, and he just looks better-and-better each time he gets in the water at this meet.
