Ann Colloton is a former competitive
swimmer
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. She was a five-time
Big Ten Conference champion, an eight-time
All-American, and the NCAA
breaststroke
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...
champion in 1989. She was the first athlete in
University of Michigan history to be twice named female athlete of the year and was also named Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s. She was inducted into the
University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in February 2008.
Competitive swimmer
A native of
Iowa City, Iowa,
Colloton attended
Iowa City West High School, and was a seven-time Iowa state swimming champion who went on to star at the
University of Michigan from 1987-1990.
[ With Colloton on the team, the Michigan women's swim team won 35 of 36 dual meets and claimed four consecutive Big Ten Conference championships from 1987-1990.][ Her 200-yard ]breaststroke
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...
dominance resulted in three Big Ten individual titles (1988–90) and an NCAA championship in 1989.[ Her NCAA championship came in March 1989 at the ]Indiana University Natatorium
Indiana University Natatorium is a swimming complex on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It also serves as the home of the IUPUI School of Health & Human Sciences (including phy ...
where she swam the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:12.96 to beat Jill Johnson of Stanford
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by .15 seconds.
Awards and honors
Colloton was named the University of Michigan's female athlete of the year in 1989 and 1990, becoming the first athlete (male or female) in school history to receive the athlete of the year award more than once.[ In 1992, Colloton was also named Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s as part of the Big Ten's celebration of women's sports.][ Colloton was also a three-time Academic All- Big Ten Conference honoree and the recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient in 1990. She was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in February 2008 along with ]Heisman Trophy
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winner Desmond Howard.[
]
Later years
Colloton lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Rev. Matthew Laney, and two children, Camden and Halladay. Halladay swims for th
University of Vermont
See also
* University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor
Notes
External links
Howard Among Six To Be Inducted Into U-M Hall of Honor
Bruce Madej, Michigan: Champions of the West, p. 199
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American female swimmers
Sportspeople from Iowa City, Iowa
Sportspeople from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Michigan Wolverines women's swimmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Iowa City West High School alumni