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Patricia 'Tish' Bucher, Miami (Women's Swimming and Diving)
Patricia ‘Tish’ Bucher is regarded as one of the greatest female athletes to ever compete for Miami University. Bucher is the only MAC female swimmer to ever win the MAC Most Outstanding Swimmer for four consecutive years from 1981-84.
Bucher holds the all-time MAC record for most individual titles in one championship meet with five during the 1982 MAC Championship.
Throughout her career she secured 17 individual MAC Championships and including relays for a total of 21 MAC Championships. Bucher collected 24 titles between the MAC and the Ohio Association of Intercollegiate Sports for Women (OAISW) Championships. She was also a three-time qualifier for either the NCAA or Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Championships.
A native of Potomac, Md., Bucher was recognized as the Miami Athlete of the Decade during the 1992 Mid-American Conference Women’s 10th Anniversary Awards. Bucher was also recognized as the Miami Athlete of the Year in 1984.
Bucher competed at Miami University from 1981-84 and graduated in 1984.
