Northwestern Wildcats swimming and diving
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The Northwestern Wildcats swimming and diving teams represent Northwestern University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.
History
Northwestern's men's swimming program was founded in 1909. The men's program has competed in the Big Ten Conference ever since the conference began sponsoring swimming in 1911. The university's varsity women's swimming and diving program was inaugurated in 1973.
In the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships held from 1924 through 1936, no team points were officially awarded. Northwestern won four unofficial national team championships during these years (1924, 1929, 1930, and 1933), which were proclaimed in the newspapers of the time, second only to Michigan's seven.
Northwestern Swimming and Diving has earned tremendous success over time. Three-time All-American Olivia Rosendahl won the NCAA Women's Platform Diving championship in both 2017 and 2018, and the Wildcats have been represented in each of the last three Summer Olympic Games, most recently by swimmers Valerie Gruest-Slowing and Jordan Wilimovsky in Rio in 2016. In the summer before his senior season, Wilimovsky became the first American to compete in both indoor and outdoor swimming events in the same Olympics. In 2015, Wilimovsky became the world champion in 10 km water race.
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