On November the 11th, Michigan will honor a number of former student athletes and coaches.

Two of those going into the Hall of Honor are softball veteran Samantha Finley and Jim Richardson,

former swimming coach here with the women's program for 27 years at the University of Michigan.

We're going to get a chance to talk to them and hear from them today 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 your host, John Jansen.

Happy to be joined now by one of the new inductees to the Michigan Hall of Honor, and

that is Samantha, thanks for joining me me and your initial reaction to the news that you were going to be in

Michigan Athletics Hall of Honor.

It's an absolute honor.

I mean, to be games among some of the famous Michigan athletes and Michigan women.

I just think it's such a tremendous honor that I get to continue to wear the mason

blue and support Michigan athletic.

When you look back at your career, there's a lot of big moments and there's one gigantic

moment that obviously I want to ask you about.

Probably the most famous moment in women's softball. But when you think back to your time in Ann Arbor as a student athlete, what type of memories, what type of emotions do you have?

All good ones for certain. I think the biggest thing is just Michigan softball and what Carol Hutchins has done for that program is making sure that all of the athletes know that we're being a part of something bigger than ourselves.

And I think that that's the one thing that I always took with me and continue to take with me today is, you know, being a part of something

bigger than yourself in a team sport, it is so valuable in all aspects. And I think that,

that really owned in that year that we won is, you know, we all wanted to win together as a

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