Prior to the start of day eight finals, USA swimming announced the assistant coaches for the 2016 U.S Olympic team.
Mike Bottom, Dave Durden, and Jack Bauerle will be joining head men’s coach Bob Bowman in Rio. Greg Meehan, Bruce Gemmell, and Ray Looze will be joining head women’s coach David Marsh on the coaching staff.
With only one more night of competition remaining and only roster spots in the women’s 50m freestyle and men’s 1500m freestyle on the line, a picture of the U.S Olympic team has formed and the aforementioned coaches each have athletes on the team.
- Connor Jaeger (400m freestyle) *Jaeger is also the top seed heading into tonight’s 1500m freestyle final.
- Ryan Murphy (100, 200 backstroke)
- Josh Prenot (200 breaststroke)
- Nathan Adrian (50 free, 100 free, 4×100 free relay)
- Anthony Ervin (50 free, 4×100 free relay) ***Ervin has been training with SwimMAC Carolina for a short while leading up to trials, but is still partially representing Cal Aquatics
- Tom Shields (100, 200 butterfly)
- Jacob Pebley (200 backstroke)
JACK BAUERLE
- Olivia Smoliga (100 backstroke)
- Jay Litherland (400 IM)
- Hali Flickinger (200 fly)
- Gunnar Bentz (4×200 free relay)
- Lia Neal (4×100 free relay)
- Simone Manuel (100 free, 4×100 free relay) *Manuel will also be racing in tonight’s 50m freestyle final.
- Maya DiRado (200 IM, 400 IM, 200 backstroke)
- Katie Ledecky (200 freestyle, 400 freestyle, 800 freestyle, 4×200 freestyle relay)
- Lilly King (100, 200 breastsroke)
- Cody Miller (100 breaststroke)
- Blake Pieroni (4×100 freestyle relay) *Pieroni’s spot on the team has not yet been confirmed.
I think Bottom was a great pick. I think a lot of you in this discussion are 1 dimensional by looking at the number of athletes a Coach has. But, Mike Bottom’s specialty isn’t workout writing…his specialty is team culture for both men’s and women’s team at Michigan…a national powerhouse for consecutive number of years. Marsh and Bottom are close friends and I believe the choice was based around Bottom’s ability to unite a group of young athletes for a singular objective. Ya’ll need to stop squabbling and do your home work or at least ask an insider. And Reese declined.
Open Water Olympic Coach Vogt should be being included in these lists of US coaching staff
M Duncan Scott – despite in the U.S. the propensity to treat them as the same, open water and pool swimming teams are not the same team.
You can read about coach Vogt’s appointment as the head coach of the U.S. Open Water swimming team in this article: https://swimswam.com/catherine-vogt-named-2016-u-s-olympic-swimming-team-open-water-head-coach/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OZYXfXG2A
Why are there no women swim coaches on this list? That is so F in wrong. I guess it’s for the same reason that there are no women swimming the 1500. The rules don’t allow it. Time for a change.
Can’t believe they didn’t name Eddie Reese
https://swimswam.com/assistant-coaches-named-united-states-olympic-team/#comment-436964
They did ask Eddie and he declined. No idea how or why Bottom is on this staff. Josh White yes, Bottom. No.
My 5cents …
Schooling would have Coach Sergio Lopez there as part of the Singapore Set Up – as will Cordes. So Coach Sergio wil be an outside contributor to Team USA
Don’t you think Eddie had more of a contribution shaping Schooling at Texas?
What’s your point?
Sergio Lopez is Singapore’s national head coach, Eddie Reese is not.
Eddie’s credentials for head or assistant coach for the team are unquestionable. He has four current or past men on this team. If he chose or signaled he was not interested – fine. I can not believe USA would not want the best coaches PERIOD! I hope he attends…
What was your point about Sergio being an “outside contributor” there at the meet? On the deck? Pre-race to Cordes? This is team competition! Are you saying US Olympic Coaches could/would be outside contributors to foreign swimmers AT THE MEET? Vice Versa?
Coley Stickels can flat out coach. He’s been doing it for years and gets little recognition. He should have been on this staff without question.
I agree he’s a great coach, but I don’t think he should’ve been named without question. I mean Eddie Reese should be on that list before coley.
Many of the coaches attend even if they aren’t on the staff.