Peter Verhoef New Assistant Coach at Queens University, Video Interview

As reported by SwimSwam editor-in-chief Braden Keith:

Peter Verhoef, New Assistant Coach at Queens University

Peter Verhoef has been hired as an assistant at Queens University in Charlotte, as head swim coach Jeff Dugdale has been promoted to Director of Aquatics. The university felt that this position was vital with the completion of the university’s new Levine Center.

The hiring of Verhoef will further increase the tie-ins between SwimMAC Carolina and Queens. One of the University’s first hires was SwimMAC CEO David Marsh as a consultant when they added the program in the fall of 2011.

Verhoef is an assistant with the SwimMAC Team Elite program that had 18 athletes at the 2012 Olympic Trials. He was a great swimmer in his own right as an Olympic Trials finalist in 2004 and 2008 and a World Championship team member in 2005 and 2007.

“It has always been my passion to coach excellent young men and women to be better people through the lessons learned in the pool and I can’t think of a better place to pursue that passion than Queens University of Charlotte,” Verhoef said. “The opportunity to follow my passion of influencing young athletes to become outstanding adults matched with continuing to assist in impacting swimming at the Olympic level makes Charlotte an incredible place for me to be.”

Verhoef joins the staff as one of his star pupils joins the team. Queens University will welcome in the fall Matthew Josa, who finaled in multiple events at last week’s USA Swimming National Championship meet. He joins a men’s roster that finished 9th at the NCAA Championships last year (their women’s team was 10th). Josa is immediate program-changing recruit who could have swum at any Division I program in the country, but opted for this Division II program instead.

HERE IS THE NEW POOL WHERE QUEENS UNIVERSITY WILL BE TRAINING:

New Queens University Pool

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