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April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 12

…. 2 Michigan hockey team would be back. After a puck jumped over the stick of then-freshman defenseman Luke Hughes, the ensuing year was anything but predictable for the Wolverines. In just 364…

Wolverines (26- 12-3 overall) regressed to issues of old, falling to Quinnipiac (33-4-3), 5-2, after 60 minutes of insufficient defensive effort coupled with bad bounces. “Quinnipiac’s a great team and we…

… Rand Pecknold put it. But early in the final frame, the Bobcats found more puck luck — and with that, the lead. After a Wolverine defensive lapse let up a 2-on-1 opportunity, Quinnipiac forward…

…. “Just a bad bounce,” Naurato lamented. After the Bobcats took the lead, Michigan couldn’t mount a response. While Portillo’s heroics kept the Wolverines in striking distance, the offense couldn…

… the consequences of its offensive stagnation, puck watching and missed assignments made hope for an equalizer a distant possibility as the Wolverines fell onto their backfoot. Offensive lapses…

… of that.” While chance after chance proved insufficient for the Bobcats, Metsa finally delivered the dagger. Floating an unconventional shot, an absent- minded Wolverine defense watched as it…

April 06, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 71) • Page Image 12

… ollowing a second-place finish in its regional second round, the No. 3 Michigan women’s gymnastics team had something to prove. And Saturday night, the Wolverines proved why they were the Raleigh…

… region’s No. 1 seed. A dominant final two rotations propelled the Wolverines (26-2, 9-0 Big Ten) to their 14th NCAA Regional Championship win — and their 26th Nationals appearance — over No. 11…

April 13, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 72) • Page Image 12

… to propel themselves into the championship. Called to send the Wolverines’ stars into the NHL empty- handed in the process. And it was the Pioneers who answered the call. In the…

… Frozen Four, the Wolverines (31-10-1 overall) fell to Denver (30-9-1), 3-2, in a down-to-the-wire overtime bout, ending their Big Ten and NCAA Regional Championship season short of their ultimate…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 16

… uncharacteristic fall on bars, Wilson, and the Wolverines’ hopes, were already on the ground. And that’s just about where they would stay — no matter how hard the team fought. Although Michigan (26…

… since 2018 with a score of 197.750, while No. 14 Denver and No. 6 LSU advanced. The Wolverines and Tigers ended the meet tied, so it all came down to a tiebreaker. All six gymnasts were counted in…

April 20, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 73) • Page Image 12

Wolverines, who have rightfully earned high praise all season. They won the Big Ten Championship and the Regional Championship, building momentum and setting themselves up for success Thursday night. But…

… those past successes could not guarantee a return trip to the National Final. A strong start faded into the Wolverines’ (26-5 overall) lowest score of the season at 196.2875 and a last-place finish…

April 05, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 108) • Page Image 15

… Michigan softball team’s bats get hot with runners in scoring positions, it tends to win. On Friday, the Wolverines tallied 14 hits and 10 runs. But on Satur- day, Nebraska extinguished the momentum by…

… double from graduate center fielder Lexie Blair placed runners on base before a sacrificial flyout and a single brought the runners home. The Wolverines tallied two hits and two runs in the frame…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 15

… momentum swings like a weather delay, Michi- gan coach Tracy Smith being ejected and 43 combined runs, O’Halloran’s rough start proved to be the beginning of the chaos. This left the Wolverines (19- 16…

… ultimately paid off. While the Wolverines were shut out in a 13-0 loss on Friday night, Smith deliberately put the weaker reliev- ers of his thin pitching staff on the mound to keep the best ones fresh. O…

April 21, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 16) • Page Image 19

… of the game, this one over the fence in deep left field to make the score 14-2, as the Wolverines broke open the game and went on to win 21-5. Thanks in large part to a plethora of home runs…

…, Michigan (18-7 Big Ten) swept Minnesota (4-20) this weekend, winning 4-0 on Saturday and 9-5 on Sunday after its rout to open the series on Friday. Following its weekend performance, the Wolverines sit…

…, would amount to nothing. But the season returned, and with it an ascendant Wolverine squad. After its first loss at the Big Five Meet, Michigan scored 198.025 in a dominant performance that broke…

April 14, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 29) • Page Image 16

… time with an extra inning tacked on. The 2-1 credited win over Nebraska marked her 73rd as a Wolverine, surpassing Kelly Kovach for ninth-most in Michigan history. Beaubien’s work on the diamond was…

… the graduation of legendary infielder Sierra Romero in 2016, though, may not show it. The Wolverines have consistently dominated the Big Ten since then. They have held at least a share of…

… postseasons since their 2016 College World Series run, the Wolverines have failed to advance past the regional stage, including the most recent NCAA tournament in 2019 where they lost to James Madison on…

… softball program. With over 1600 wins, Hutchins entered this season as the winningest D1 softball coach in history. Since leading the Wolverines to their first College World Series appearance in…

… 1995, in only their third trip to the NCAA Tournament, Michigan has not missed the playoffs. These last three years mark the longest super-regional drought the Wolverines have ever endured since…

… consistently good for almost a half-decade, the Wolverines are now at an inflection point. They have what it takes, within their current roster, to take the program back to the College World Series. To be…

… right-hander Alex Storako and senior left-hander Meghan Beaubien. Together, along with three innings of support from senior right-hander Sarah Schaefer, they have propelled the Wolverines to a…

…’ve played.” When it comes to a formula that can return the Wolverines to an elite national program, as opposed to a consistent Big Ten powerhouse, pitching is certainly found in the equation. So is…

… this team’s equation that teams from years past have had? The answer runs deeper than just to hit better, it lies in whether or not the Wolverines actually have an attainable path to providing…

… emphasis on power-hitting, a common argument has been Michigan’s inability to keep up with the changes. However, recently, the Wolverines’ bats have shown serious pop. Over the past weekend at Ohio…

April 07, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 27) • Page Image 16

… saluted the judges, stepped out on the floor and performed a strong routine that allowed the No. 4 Wolverines (20-2) to tie their program record team score at the NCAA Regionals over the weekend…

…. The Wolverines showed some nerves on the first day of competition in the Regional Semifinals, but the team ultimately placed first and advanced. Michigan’s biggest errors in its first day of…

… 9.975. The high scoring performances kept Michigan in the lead with second place Golden Bears trailing by 0.375 points. Despite the Wolverine’s beam performance in the previous day…

… floor. The Wolverines kept their momentum on floor, with four gymnasts earning scores of 9.900, and Wilson topping the rotation with a 9.950. Wojcik finished the rotation with a 9.900, even…

… the mix.” Although Wojcik’s stellar routine wasn’t necessary in securing Michigan’s win, it pushed the team to tie its program record and give the Wolverines necessary confidence as they…

…. With his family in the stands, he homered to deep right field. It’s a moment Michigan coach Erik Bakich thinks Lawrence will never forget, but one of few things the rest of the Wolverines will…

April 06, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 71) • Page Image 11

…’s record book for average beam score. Each of these individual levels of excellence compound themselves into a team that can compete at the highest level. The Wolverines are the best floor team in…

… NCAA semifinals. By the end of it, though, the Wolverines forced a nearly half- point swing to comfortably win the regional. Their vault and bar scores — the two weak points of the second round…

… playing in Crisler for almost 50 years, though, and not a single jersey hangs to honor the women that molded the program. Five men. No women. With Naz Hillmon’s career as a Wolverine recently…

… mother, Rachel, is an experi- enced golfer as well who also compet- ed as a Wolverine from 1982 to 1983. Naturally, Schulz went through her childhood with the desire to play golf at Michigan, declaring…

April 10, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 103) • Page Image 8

… were invited to the USA College National Team tryouts. In the fall, they accounted for a combined 56.8 percent of the Wolverines’ kills, 48.4 percent of their blocks and 44.6 percent of their…

… with 463 kills. Jones’ attack power slotted her as the Wolverines’ top offensive weapon and secured her a unanimous selection to the All- Big Ten First Team. Middle blocker Jess Robinson…

April 06, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 99) • Page Image 3

…It is during times like this, when normalcy escapes us and uncertainty consumes us, that what defines us becomes clear. Our identities as Wolverines no longer hinge on the routines we had…

… are able to feel like a Wolverine during a time where being a Wolverine looks entirely different than before. Engineering junior Bashar Hallak, Baalbek, Lebanon native, described his…

… businesses ranging from the Ozone House, a nonprofit that provides shelter and support to homeless youth, to Rays Red Hots, a popular dining spot for Wolverines, aiming, “to support…

… Clara Munkarah spent a few of her final moments as a Wolverine organizing a charity virtual cup pong tournament in which over 25 Wolverines are participating in. The winner of the virtual cup…

April 03, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 98) • Page Image 8

Wolverines on their winter break training trip to Key Largo, Fla. In her Michigan debut at the Orange Bowl Classic, Carter set the meet record for the 100-meter butterfly. A performance like that…

… appeared par for the course considering the high expectations of the Wolverines’ coaching staff. “She swims a lot of different events, so she will be scoring a lot of points in different places…

…. “... but we’re just better because she’s a great contributing athlete and a great Michigan woman.” Carter recognized the profundity of the ‘Michigan woman’ title. She’s been a Wolverine long enough…

April 14, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 29) • Page Image 15

…. Most games are headlined by star pitchers Alex Storako and Meghan Beaubien. And while the Wolverines often squeak out a win with just enough runs to outscore their opponent, the offense isn…

… in the gap, sacrifice bunts nor standard singles, rather a majority of them came via homeruns. The Wolverines launched seven homers over the course of the series in Columbus, which is half of the…

April 21, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 16) • Page Image 20

… started off Michigan’s next rotation on bars with a stuck dismount. The Wolverines’ top scores of the rotation came from Brooks and junior Abby Brenner in her first competitive routine in…

… the event. This lead, though, was deceptively large. The Wolverines had to move to the beam, a nerve racking event to conclude a meet on, while the Soon- ers ended on floor, whose scores were the…

April 14, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 29) • Page Image 14

…-second 3-point attempt, a heave that carried with it the Wolverines’ fate. The shot fell short. Livers bowed his head. Two-and-a-half weeks earlier, on March 12, Livers’s season had already ended. A…

… primed to make the ride a special one, a national championship certainly within the realm of possibility. If Gonzaga and Baylor were entrenched as 1a and 1b, the Wolverines established themselves…

… hobbled into the tunnel and out of sight, a Wolverine one last time. Just a day before March Madness started, the biggest NCAA event of the year, college basketball players tweeted out “#Not…

… I can.” That is a sentiment that Wolverines’ coach Erik Bakich has emphasized, too. “There’s a lot of people that talk and they don’t do jack squat,” Bakich said. “They just like to complain…

April 19, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 110) • Page Image 1

… the form of Counseling and Psychological Services, Wolverine Wellness or other more specific services. TMD: With the Graduate Employees’ Organization currently on strike, how do you balance your…

… close to home. In Student Life, our first reaction was to find ways to communicate to students that we were certainly there for them in terms of support — whether it be through CAPS, Wolverine

April 09, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 102) • Page Image 3

… with each other anonymously, and hopefully make people feel a little better.” Hilkert said he based his idea off of Wolverine Support Network and their peer-to-peer support system. “I…

… thought (Wolverine Support Network) is a really good resource,” Hilkert said. “But the limitation there is that it’s once a week for an hour rather than being a live resource where you can…

April 20, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 73) • Page Image 1

…. “Although this truly breaks my heart, I am DETERMINED to bring more awareness to the situation & fight for change for the betterment of future Black wolverines & Black RAs to come.” Lucy also posted the…

April 06, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 71) • Page Image 3

… Patil can be reached at cbrech@umich.edu and sejpatil@ umich.edu. Commemorating Women’s History Month: 5 impactful Wolverine female leaders From three-time Olympian to the second longest…

… commemorating the life and legacy of five influential Wolverine women who have made, and continue to make, an impact on the campus com- munity. 1. Susan Collins Provost Susan M. Collins, executive vice…

April 06, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 71) • Page Image 6

Wolverines might not get into their first-choice graduate program or land their top internship, but they usually manage to come out relatively successful. I think this phenomenon of excelling without…

…, because many of us seem to do the opposite. When the typical Wolverine doesn’t land the internship they wanted, they don’t seriously reflect on how much effort they put into their résumé or if the…

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