MIAC

In the movie Rudy, Samwise Gamgee goes from hard working underdog, to playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team… er Sean Astin, er something like that. Point is Rudy was an underdog… like Rocky, The guy in the King’s Speech, and the D3 swimming version, Drew Hedlund. I know most in the D3 … Read more The Rudy of D3 Swimming

Every year, Mac of the Miac gives his controversial coaching grades for all the MIAC coaches. While D3Swimming.com does not agree with these opinions, we do support his right to say them. You can find the post here. Second semester is over, and it’s time for grades. Criteria is: 1) Recruiting class 2) Taper 3) … Read more Featured Forum Post

Head Coaches – Dave Hauck: 37 years, 22 MIAC titles, Bob Hauck 22 years, 9 MIAC men’s titles Last year’s score/place:  615.5/3rd St. Olaf entered the 2010-2011 season coming off of a bit of a lull the prior year. They had graduated one of their best teams since the early 90s, and got hit with some … Read more MIAC Preview – St. Olaf

St. John’s University Head Coach Bill Saxton – 13 years as head  coach Last years score/place – 542.5/4th Bill Saxton enters his 13th season as the head coach of the St. John’s Men’s swim team. Coming off a 4th place finish at last years meet, SJU has had a strong recruiting class to help them … Read more MIAC Preview – St. Johns

Carleton enters the 2011 meet with one of their best teams since 2008. Strong recruiting the last two seasons has built up the top level relay speed and added depth for Carleton to compete at MIACs.  This year Carleton will most likely be in the mix to compete with GAC and SJU for the 3-4-5 … Read more MIAC Preview – Carleton

Coach: Tom Hodgson – 32 years as coach, 1 conference title Last Year’s Score/Place: 709/1st St. Thomas emerged last year with their first men’s conference title since before the school was co-ed. The rise to the top may look surprising to some as they finished 4th in 2008 and 3rd in 2009. But UST doesn’t … Read more MIAC Preview – St. Thomas

Coach: Eric Lindquist – 12 years as coach Last Year’s Score/Place: 224/6th St. Mary’s is a school that has teetered on the edge of making it into the mid-tier mix at conference for the last few years. Their 6th place finish last season showed signs of possibly being 2-3 recruits away from that next level. … Read more MIAC Preview – SMU

Coach: Jon Carlson – 21 years as coach, 7 Conference titles Last Year’s Score/Place: 701/2nd Gustavus enters the 2011 MIAC conference meet coming off a strong 2nd place finish in last year’s MIAC championships. The team fell just 8 points shy of recording Head Coach Jon Carlson’s 8th conference title in the past 11 years. … Read more MIAC Preview – Gustavus Adolphus

From Chapel Partner in his topic under the MIAC forum, Conference Relays: I know I wrote a bunch of crap at the beginning of the year on this, but I’m too lazy to go back and look what I wrote. So if I contradict myself, I don’t really care. Here is what I’m coming up … Read more Featured Forum Post

Site The MIAC Championship page has been put up. There will be live video, though whether or not they charge for it is not noted. Also, t-shirts are for sale.