Updated through the 2012-13 season

• The women's swimming and diving program became an intercollegiate sport at Hope in 1978.

• Swimming and diving has become one of the college's most successful intercollegiate programs with numerous conference championships individual national championships and Top Ten team finishes.

• The program has been built from the ground up by John Patnott. He is the winningest active coach of any sport in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Three times in his career he has been honored as the Division III national coach of the year. He has coached more than 100 NCAA All-Americans, including national champions on 30 occasions.

• Susan and Sara Looman, who are twin sisters, finished one-two in the 100-yard backstroke at the 1994 NCAA Division III national championships. It was the first time in the history of the national meet that sisters, let alone twin sisters, finished one-two in an event.

• Hope College was host to the NCAA Division III national swimming and diving championships at the Holland Aquatics Center in 2005.

• There were no sibling rivalries when it came to Hope’s swimming program in 2008-09 as the men’s and women’s teams had five sets of brothers and sisters -- Laura (senior) and Steven (freshman) Ansilio, Lisa (freshman) and Phil (junior) Heyboer, Elizabeth (freshman) and Ryan (junior) Nelis, Andrew (freshman) and Matt (junior) Rose, and Christina (junior) and Ryan (senior) Vogelzang.

• Senior Chelsea Wiese was presented the 2012 NCAA Elite 89 award for maintainng the highest cumulative grade point average among all of the competitors in the NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships. The Elite 89 award is presented to the top scholar-athlete at each of the 89 NCAA championships held annually. An accounting major. Wiese maintained a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average. Co-captain of the team, Wiese was the 2012 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) champion in the 200 and 400 yard individual medley events and competed at nationals with teammates in four relay events.