Spring, whether you look outside and you believe it or not, has sprung.

And Michigan baseball is ready to rock and roll.

I'm going to be joined today by Tracy Smith, the head coach of the baseball team here at Michigan.

We'll get to him in just a moment on conquering heroes.

Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics.

Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.

This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's her host, John Chanson.

Well, join now because the season is about to get underway,

and that is the baseball season by head coach, Tracy Smith,

going into his second year.

Coach, thanks for joining me.

And what did you learn about your group,

especially the guys that are returning coming out of year one last year?

Well, one of the things that really jumped out of me,

you know, having coached in this conference for a long time,

but now I'm at Michigan, it's just the culture

and how well established and what it means to be at Michigan

and a part of just Michigan in general,

but specifically the baseball program.

So what I loved about last year was we came into the mindset of, hey, we're not going to

change a ton of things around here because things are working pretty well.

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