Michigan's swimmers and coaches celebrated their national championship with a postvictory leap into the pool.
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Bottom's inkling of potential greatness turned out to be incredibly accurate.
The Wolverines claimed the 12th
official team national championship
in program history and the first since
1995. Before the NCAA began awarding national titles in 1937, Michigan
also claimed seven unofficial titles.
"It feels great, because that is
where we have seen ourselves being these last 20 years — as a team,
a program, that deserves to be at the
top," junior distance specialist Con-
nor Jaeger said. "For it to happen, it's
a sigh of relief. We got there again;
we did it. We have been doing things
right, and we were right to believe in
ourselves this whole time."
By any measure, U-M's men's
swimming and diving team is the
most successful program in the history of athletics at the school.
The Wolverines have more national
titles than any other sport at Michigan. They have also seen 163 individual national titles, which Jaeger
added to this season, winning the