Episode 24 of Inside Warhawk Athletics Presented by Educators Credit Union includes a conversation with Michaela Matthys, who competed for the UW-Whitewater women’s swimming and diving team from 2014-18. During her career at UW-Whitewater, the Warhawks finished as WIAC runner-up in both 2015 and 2018. She was a three-year NCAA Championship qualifier and an All-American in the 100-yard butterfly and 400-yard medley relay in 2015. As a senior in 2018, Matthys was named UW-Whitewater’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year. For her career, she captured nine conference individual and relay championships, the most in program history. Matthys was a two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American, four-year member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll and 2017-18 UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Scholar-Athlete. She graduated in 2018 with a degree in media arts and game development.
Matthys discussed her current role at NBC Sports Chicago, her career accomplishments and memories, how her UW-Whitewater experience has helped her in the real world, and the swimming and diving programs’ family culture and ability to deal with the tragedies that have struck the program over the last decade.
