Michigan Women Claim 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Title, Sweep Big Ten Season for Sixth Time

Michigan Women Claim 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Title, Sweep Big Ten Season for Sixth Time

Site: Bloomington, Ind. (Billy Hayes Track & Field Complex)

Event: 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships (Day 3 of 3)  

U-M Result: First of 13 teams (139 points) 

Next U-M Event: Wednesday, May 24 — at NCAA East Preliminaries – Day 1 (Jacksonville Florida), Time TBA

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Five individuals took home Big Ten titles and the Wolverines scored points in 16 events on Sunday (May 14) as the University of Michigan women’s track and field team won the 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Championship trophy behind 139 points at the Billy Hayes Track and Field Complex on the campus of Indiana. 

The top finish is the second women’s Big Ten title under Kevin Sullivan as program director and the first outdoor title since 2016. It also marks the sixth time in program history that the Wolverines have claimed both the indoor and outdoor titles in a single season, as Michigan also took home the title at the 2023 indoor championships in late February.

With athletes entered in nineteen of the Big Ten Championships’ twenty-one events, the Wolverines ended Sunday (May 14) with points in sixteen events, all contributing to the team’s first-place finish of 139 points. Heading into the final day of competition, the Wolverines were projected to finish second, behind Ohio State, but instead finished the three-day competition a whopping 16 points ahead of OSU.

Ziyah Holman cemented her Michigan legacy with three school records, a Big Ten meet record and 22.6 points towards Michigan’s 139 total. Individually, Holman raced in the 200 and 400 meters, setting school records in both races. She ran a school-record time of 23.08 to claim a second-place finish in the 200-meters, which secured eight points for the Wolverines. In the 400-meters, Holman ran head-to-head with three of Ohio State’s heavy hitters — Alyssa Marsh, Bryannia Murphey and Jaydan Wood. Holman rose to the challenge, however, and her final kick on the home stretch was enough to beat Marsh by almost a full second. Holman’s 50.90 time in the event, which came in her second race of the day’s action, was a career-best, a Big Ten meet…