At the Oakland Aquatics Center, the Oakland women’s swim and dive team lost a tough match to the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Eagles on Thursday, Nov. 16.
In a meet featuring multiple lead changes...
On Friday, Oct. 13, the Oakland swim and dive women's team lost to the University of Toledo (UT) Rockets at the Oakland Aquatics Center with a final score of 167-133.
"We have to learn from this," assistant...
The Oakland swim and dive team held their 40th Annual "Oakland Ray" Alumni Meet at the Oakland Aquatic Center on Saturday, Sept. 30.
Notably, this is the third year the alumni meet has been known as...
A typical career lasts about 40 years.
Oakland University Swimming and Diving Head Coach Pete Hovland’s career lasted just about that long — 44 years, to be exact — but it was anything but typical....
In 1979, a 24-year-old Pete Hovland joined the Oakland University men’s swimming and diving team as a mentor. Forty-four years ago, when Hovland first joined the program, Oakland was a small Division...
Three-time Horizon Athlete of the Year and two-time Swimmer of the Meet winner, senior swimmer Susan LaGrand qualified for the NCAA Championships and competed this week and during the weekend in her trials...
The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies Combined Swim Team place second to Duquesne University Dukes at the Atlantic 10 Classics in Geneva, Ohio on Oct. 30-31 .
The four team meet featured Oakland,...
With the commencement of the annual Black and Gold Intrasquad Meet, the Golden Grizzlies Swimming and Diving teams have opened the doors to a new season full of possibilities.
Last season, the men...
Oakland swimming and diving head coach Pete Hovland coached the men's swim and dive team to its 28th consecutive conference title and the women's to its 23rd straight.
Oakland Swimming and Diving took the Lyme Disease Challenge on Monday, fulfilling a “dare” of sorts from Cleveland State University by stating a fact about the disease and biting into actual limes....
