People in the pool, doing laps. Often they are very fast laps, but still laps. Conveying excitement from a swim meet in a single photograph is an admittedly hard thing to do. But look at those pants.

Auburn finished 8th in the nation this season, and more things were expected for the future. Not bad for a program that had been in the cellar three years previous. They won six dual meets and, for the first time, won the Southern Intercollegiate Championship.

The women (more on female athletics in a moment) won all three of their meets, but had no national qualifiers.

Today, and for the past decade, Auburn has dominated the swimming and diving landscape, earning 12 national championships since 1997.

Swimming and diving has, over the years, boasted more than 150 NCAA champions, 18 FINA gold medals, dozens of Pan-Am medals and 30 Olympians with eight medalists among them.

From Wikipedia on humble origins: "Auburn's swimming and diving program got off to a modest start in 1932. Swimming in the basement of the Alumni Gym (which no longer exists on campus) the Tigers swam in a small pool which only had room for three lanes. Swimmers were timed and results were telegraphed to other schools for comparisons. The first real competitions were held in 1936, with ten swimmers competing."

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