P-G: Merner 'floating along just fine'

UW-Green Bay Swimming and Diving Head Coach Jim Merner met with skeptics when he was hired as interim coach in 1990. They told him he’d probably never make the program successful. In the 19 years since, the skeptics have seen championships pour into the pool. The women are on the verge of their fifth straight Horizon League championship and sixth overall. The men have won one conference title and placed second five times with Merner at the helm. Green Bay Press-Gazette sports reporter Tom Pelissero featured Merner in a column this weekend. Read more.