Michelle Braden

Position:
Breaststroke, Individual Medley, Freestyle
Class:
Senior
High School:
Concord
Hometown:
Elkhart, Ind.

2005-06: Redshirt.

2004-05: Collected 21 top three finishes, including nine first-place efforts . . . placed seventh in the 400 IM (4:30.32), eighth in the 200 IM (2:08.39) and 15th in the 200 fly (2:10.57) at the Mid-American Conference Championships . . . member of the 800 free relay team that placed seventh at MAC with the second-best time in school history (7:37.09) . . . recorded a career-best clocking of 10:39.52 in the 1,000 free, which was the team’s fastest of the season . . . ranked second on the team in the 200 breast (2:27.05) and the 400 IM (4:29.98), and third in the 200 fly (2:09.58) and the 200 IM (2:07.63) . . . her time in the 200 fly was a career-best.

2003-04: Placed seventh in the 400 IM (4:31.72) at the MAC Championships . . . earned a 12th place finish at MAC in the 200 IM (2:08.90) . . . her preliminary times in both events (2:07.62 in the 200 IM and 4:28.02 in the 400 IM) were BSU’s second fastest of the year . . . member of the sixth place 800 free relay (7:39.26), which posted a BSU season-fast time . . . logged the team’s third fastest individual performance in the 100 breast (1:10.16) . . . recorded 27 top three finishes, including six first-place swims . . . competed on one first-place relay team.

2002-03: Named the team’s Outstanding Freshman . . . recorded BSU’s top effort in the 200 breast (2:24.81) . . . managed the squad’s third-best time in the 100 breast (1:08.19) . . . was a member of the Cardinals’ third-place 800 free relay team (7:37.42) at the MAC Championships . . . placed seventh in the 400 individual medley (4:33.87) at the league finale . . . collected 12 first-place, 10 second-place and nine third-place efforts for a team-best 31 top-three finishes.

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four letters at Concord for Coach Jane Coudret . . . a three-time member of the Northern Lakes All-Conference team . . . broke school records in the 200 free, 500 free and 200 individual medley . . . also swam on school-record setting 200 and 400 free relay teams . . . four-year state qualifier . . . placed seventh in the state in the 200 IM as a senior . . . also part of an eighth-place 400 free relay team.

PERSONAL: Majoring in elementary education . . . born May 29, 1984, in Elkhart, Ind. . . . daughter of Wayne and Karen Braden . . . mother played basketball for Goshen College . . . has one brother, Chris, who is currently a freshman on the Ball State swimming & diving team.