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Through the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, 178 Michigan student-athletes and coaches had participated in the Olympics. The university has had medal winners in every Summer Olympics except 1896, and gold medalists in all but four Olympiads. A total of 22 countries, including the U.S., have been represented by Michigan athletes. [493]
The following is a list of University of Michigan alumni. There are more than 640,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan in 180 countries across the globe. [1] Notable alumni include computer scientist and entrepreneur Larry Page, actor James Earl Jones, and President of the United States Gerald Ford
Michigan's relationship with IMG College dates back to March 2001 when the school signed a five-year deal with Host Communications, Inc., a sports marketing firm based in Lexington, Kentucky; the deal was predicated to generate $7.5 million in advertising revenue from Michigan football and men's basketball radio broadcasts through 2005–06 (this partnership with Host would ultimately remain ...
The Michigan Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame to honor Michigan sports athletes, coaches and contributors. It was organized in 1954 by Michigan Lieutenant Governor Philip Hart, Michigan State University athletic director, Biggie Munn, president of the Greater Michigan Foundation, Donald Weeks, general manager of the Detroit Lions, W. Nicholas Kerbawy and George Alderton of the Lansing ...
Sheila Taormina, four-time Olympian in three sports (swimming, triathlon, modern pentathlon), gold medalist in 1996 Atlanta Olympics swim relay (born in Livonia) Lindsay Tarpley, soccer player, member of gold-medal Athens 2004 Summer Olympics team (was attending Western Michigan) (born in Madison, Wisconsin, raised in Kalamazoo)
Lane is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, was named Michigan Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 1969 and 1980, inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, and is a past president and lifetime member of the Detroit Sports Media Association, [3] which presented him with the Ty Tyson Award for Excellence in Sports ...
Helped Michigan win the first Frozen Four in 1948; inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1994 Green, Rickey: Basketball: 1994: Greene, John: Wrestling: Wrestler: 1989: Later played for the Detroit Lions, 1944–1950 Griffin, Sara: Softball: Pitcher: 2011 [6] 1995: 1998: First Michigan softball to be selected as a first-team All ...
Jim Brandstatter (born 1949 or 1950) [1] is an American former sportscaster. He served as a radio announcer for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1979 to 2021, and for the Detroit Lions from 1987 to 2017. [2]