Conqu'ring Heroes 76 - Joan Postma & Ellen Tomek
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Last weekend, Michigan Athletics celebrated the 2022 Hall of Honor class, which is the first in school history that consists entirely of female student-athletes and coaches of women's teams at Michigan. It is in honor and recognition of the 50th anniversary of Title IX legislation. On this week's episode, we hear from Joan (Spillane) Postma, U-M's first female Olympic gold medalist (1:30), and Ellen Tomek, one of two female Wolverines to participate in three Olympic Games (20:00). Please note: these interviews were recorded before last weekend's ceremony.
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| 0:00.0 | Two more inductees into the Hall of Honor. |
| 0:03.9 | I had a chance to talk to Joan Postma and Ellen Tomek, both making history as Wolverines in the Olympics. |
| 0:11.7 | Talk to them before the Hall of Honor ceremony, but they're coming next on Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:26.0 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:33.2 | Here's your host, John Jansen. |
| 0:35.9 | Now joined by another of this year's class of Hall of Honor inductees, and that is Joan Postma, |
| 0:43.3 | an Olympic gold medalist. |
| 0:45.3 | Joan, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:47.3 | And what was your reaction when you heard from Michigan Athletics that you're going to be honored |
| 0:53.2 | as being put into the Hall of Honor. |
| 0:56.9 | I was startled because it seems like that was another lifetime ago that I was at college at |
| 1:03.7 | University of Michigan. And, you know, I don't think about that every day, but when they call |
| 1:09.4 | about thought, oh, this is bizarre. |
| 1:12.5 | So in 1960, you were in Rome, before you even came to Ann Arbor, competing in the Olympics at the age of 17. |
| 1:23.7 | When you think back to that time and that moment, what was it like? |
| 1:29.6 | It was a phenomenal experience. |
| 1:32.0 | Fortunately, I had been going to national swim meets for, oh, probably a year, year |
| 1:37.4 | and a half, so I knew some of the girls, but I also knew some of them because I had been |
| 1:43.7 | on the Pan American team in 1959. |
| 1:47.1 | It was a joyful time for me to get together with those girls. |
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