Coaching Changes

Gideon Louw Joins Pitt As An Associate Head Coach After Six Seasons At Auburn

Olympian Gideon Louw is the third addition to the Pitt coaching staff this season. He joins the program after six seasons at Auburn.

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Bruno Fratus Announced As Head Coach For Coral Springs Swim Club

Brazilian Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus will coach at the club he formerly trained at alongside his wife, Michelle Lenhardt.

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Mizzou Adds Two-Time Olympian Brandon Loschiavo To Diving Staff As Assistant Coach

The 27-year-old joins the Tigers after his second straight appearance at the Olympics in Paris, placing 17th in the men’s platform event.

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Catie DeLoof Will Start With a $50,000 Salary at the University of Alabama

Catie DeLoof will match starting salaries with Sydney Pickrem at West Virginia, who has a similar coaching and competitive resume.

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Arizona State Opens the Bag for New Head Swim Coach Herbie Behm

Herbie Behm’s base salary in his first head coaching gig will be roughly 25% higher than that of the coach he replaced, Bob Bowman.

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Alabama Swimming Hires Olympic Bronze Medalist Catie DeLoof as a New Assistant Coach

Catie DeLoof will join the coaching staff at the University of Alabama next season, where she’ll work under a former competitor Margo Geer.

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A Summary Of Current Open Division I Head Coaching Positions (August Update)

Georgia Tech, Hawaii, and Incarnate Word still have open head coaching positions as of August 20th. See the full list of head coaching changes here.

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Lindsey Niergarth Promoted From Assistant to Head Coach At Xavier

Niergarth joined the program in fall 2021 and has spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach. The school started classes today.

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Legendary University of Miami Diving Coach Randy Ableman Announces Retirement After 35 Years

University of Miami diving coach Randy Ableman has announced his retirement, following a legendary 35 year-long career that produced multiple NCAA Champions.

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New West Virginia Assistant Sydney Pickrem Has a Base $50,000 Per Year Salary

Sydney Pickrem officially began as an assistant coach at West Virginia on August 5th with a one-year contract as part of the Mountaineers’ new-look staff.

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Eastern Illinois Hires Scott Teeters As Its 4th Head Swim Coach in 4 Seasons

Scott Teeters, the architect of the NAIA power program at Olivet Nazarene, is the new head swimming coach at Eastern Illinois University.

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Wild Speculation: Okay Actually, There Are a Lot of Good Candidates for the Georgia Tech Job

In spite of the job opening just four days before Georgia Tech starts its fall semester, there are a surprising number of good candidates to take over the swimming program, including former assistant Michael Norment (above).

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After Paris Olympics, Zac Stubblety-Cook Searching for New Coaching ‘Partnership’

“I think as you mature as an athlete, you get more into a partnership with a coach rather than a dictatorship,” Aussie breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook said.

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Georgia Tech Head Coach Courtney Shealy Hart Resigns To Pursue A New Professional Opportunity

Georgia Tech begins undergraduate classes on Monday and will be in search of a new head coach for the first time in 15 years.

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Mark Schubert Moving to Hawaii to Start New Pro Swimming Group

Mark Schubert is starting a Hawaii-based pro group, “Podium Swim Club,” at Oahu’s American Renaissance Academy next month. 

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