Coaching Changes

Wisconsin Hires Johno Fergusson As Assistant for New Swimming Coaching Staff

Wisconsin has hired Johno Fergusson as their first new assistant swim coach under the program’s new head coach Jack Brown.

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Illinois State Announces Kennedy Gilbertson As New Assistant Swim & Dive Coach

Gilbertson comes to Illinois State after a successful collegiate swimming career at Iowa and, most recently, coached at the collegiate level at Colby College.

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Arizona State Hires Alumni Daniel Matheson, Jack Little As Assistant Coaches

Matheson (left) completed his collegiate career in March, while Little (right) was in the Arizona State program from 2018-2022. 

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Georgia Tech Adds Miles Simon To Coaching Staff As Assistant Coach

Simon spent his undergraduate career at Howard before using his fifth year at Georgia. He swam at 2024 NCAAs on Georgia’s 200 free relay.

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Club Wolverine Parts Ways with Head Coach Jim Whitehead

Whitehead had been the head coach of Club Wolverine in the Ann Arbor area for two years, leading the club to LSC titles in all age groups earlier this season.

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Miami-FL Hires NCAA All-American Liberty Williams As Assistant Coach

Williams swam at Louisville for three years and finished her career at Alabama the last two seasons. She scored in the 1650 in 2022 and 2023 at NCAAs.

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Zachary Moody Named Assistant Coach for UNC Asheville Women’s Swimming and Diving

Moody comes to Asheville after a two-year stint as a graduate assistant at the University of Akron, working primarily with the distance swimmers.

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Augustana College Tabs Ramsey Vens As New Coach

Vens replaces Dan Lloyd, who left Augustana College in May after 11 years to take over the program at Illinois Wesleyan. 

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CSUB Head Swim Coach Chris Hansen Retires After Being Put on Administrative Leave

California State University, Bakersfield has announced that head swimming & diving coach Chris Hansen will not return as the program’s…

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Sweet Briar College Selects Bill Nicholson To Head Swim Program

Nicholson comes to Sweet Briar from Division II Maryville University, where he served as the head swimming and diving coach for the past four years.

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Kentucky Add Matt Martinez, Cauli Bedran from Wisconsin to Swimming Coaching Staff

Cauli Bedran will join the team as associate coach and Matt Martinez will become the team’s recruiting coordinator.

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Kameron Chastain Named Interim at Notre Dame; Irish Repopulate Men’s Swimming Roster

Kameron Chastain has been named to the caretaker role while the Irish search for the full-time replacement for Chris Lindauer, while the Irish 2025-2026 roster begins to take shape.

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Raleigh Swim Association Hires Ethan Cooke as New Head Coach

Ethan Cooke, who has been leading RSA’s Senior Gold group since 2023, has been promoted to head coach after the departure of Brent St. Pierre.

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Kentucky Hires Karissa Kruszewski as New Associate Swimming and Diving Coach

Kruszevski joins the Wildcats after spending the past six seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA, expanding Kentucky’s coaching staff by one.

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Devin Javens Named Assistant Swimming & Diving Coach at Bucknell

Javens, a former team captain and Division III NCAA qualifier at Denison University, was most recently the head coach at Smith College.

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