Conqu'ring Heroes 134 - Zara Collisson
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This week's guest is Michigan Rowing star Zara Collisson, who learned Wednesday that she is the Big Ten's Athlete of the Year. Collisson reacts to that incredible honor, discusses the Wolverines' Big Ten Championship performance last week, and previews next weekend’s NCAA Championships in Bethel, Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | The standard around the Michigan rowing program has been incredibly high over the years, |
| 0:05.4 | and that standard has been continued by this season's team. |
| 0:09.6 | Ninth ever Big Ten Championship, fourth in the last five years. |
| 0:13.8 | That locked up last weekend. |
| 0:16.0 | The Wolverines prepping for a trip down to Bethel, Ohio next weekend for the NCAA championships. |
| 0:22.7 | Those will take place from May 31st through June 2nd. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we catch up with one of the stars, Zara Collison, who continued the standard for |
| 0:33.1 | Michigan rowing individually by bringing home pretty regularly the Big Ten athlete of the year on her, |
| 0:39.9 | as she is the fifth Wolverine over the last six seasons to earn that award. |
| 0:45.0 | She learned about it shortly before we chatted. |
| 0:47.6 | That was on Wednesday. |
| 0:49.0 | We bring it to you here on this week's edition of Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm Brian Bush in for John Jansen and Zara Collison, joins us next. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things, Michigan Athletics. |
| 1:05.5 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 1:10.7 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 1:12.8 | Here's your host, Brian Bush. |
| 1:15.6 | It is great to be joined by a key member of the Michigan Rowing Program and a newly |
| 1:21.7 | minted Big Ten athlete of the year, Zara Collison. |
| 1:26.2 | Zara, let's start with the most recent news. You just found |
| 1:30.0 | out moments before we talked that you were going to be the Big Ten athlete of the year for rowing. |
| 1:37.2 | Just take us through the emotions of what has to be an incredible honor for you. |
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