In addition to announcing the USA National Team members earlier today, USA Swimming named the accompanying coaches.
The head coach for each National Team member’s club makes the cut, and is allowed to nominate the athlete’s primary coach, should it differ.
USA Swimming defines the “primary coach” as “the coach of the athlete at the time the athlete qualifies for the National Team. The coach must have been coaching the athlete for at least 90 consecutive days within a 24-month period prior to the performance.”
If an athlete has been training with their university coach for under a year and represented their club team at the time of their qualifying race(s), the club team coach was named to the roster. Conversely, if the athlete has been with his or her university team for over a year but represented their club team at race time, the club team will get recognition but the university coach makes the National Team instead of the club coach.
You can read about further criteria here.
Stanford women’s coach Greg Meehan, Olympian and Austin Swim Club coach Brendan Hansen, Cal women’s coach Teri McKeever, UCSD and former SwimMAC Elite coach David Marsh, as well as Cal men’s coach Dave Durden headline the impressive list:
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2017-2018 National Team Coaches
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| Ron Aitken | Whitney Hite | John Morse |
| Arthur Albiero | Braden Holloway | Tim Murphy |
| Peter Andrew | Jay Holmes | Jeff Natalizio |
| Brent Arckey | Mallory Houchin | Eric Nelson |
| Chuck Batchelor | Jon Howell | Mike Parratto |
| Jack Bauerle | Tanica Jamison | Vlad Polyakov |
| Rick Bishop | Terry Jones | Jeff Poppell |
| Caroline Boland | Lars Jorgensen | Erik Posegay |
| Mike Bottom | Stephanie Juncker | Sean Quinn |
| Brian Brown | Steve Jungbluth | Allison Reed |
| Geoff Brown | Steve Keller | Eddie Reese |
| Steve Bultman | Dave Kelsheimer |
Greg Rhodenbaugh
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| Augie Busch | Kevin Kinel | David Salo |
| Adam Byars | Jeff King | Bill Schalz |
| Carol Capitani | John Klinge | Jarod Schroeder |
| Cory Chitwood | Ted Knapp | Mark Schubert |
| Chad Cradock | Jeff Kostoff | Dick Shoulberg |
| Jimmy Dabney | Matt Kredich | Tracy Slusser |
| Mike DeBoor | Michael Laurich | Brian Smith |
| Rick DeMont | Fred Lewis | Coley Stickels |
| Rich DeSelm | Ray Looze | Yuri Suguiyama |
| Todd DeSorbo | Sergio Lopez Miro | Gary Taylor |
| Dave Durden | Bret Lundgaard | Gregg Troy |
| Tyler Fenwick | Scott Macfarland | Kevin Tyrrell |
| Mark Gangloff | David Marsh | Catherine Vogt |
| Bruce Gemmell | Garrett McCaffrey | Ian Walsh |
| Chris Gibeau | Elliott McGill | Mike Westphal |
| Kirk Grand | Teri McKeever | Doug Wharam |
| Isaac Grombacher-Brown | Greg Meehan | Josh White |
| Brendan Hansen | Brent Mitchell | Stefanie Williams |
| Brett Hawke | Pete Morgan |
Mike Bottom does not deserve to be on this list
Wow lot’s of assistants listed. Is there a list of whom they are the primary coach? The rediculous practice of getting assistants on the list rrally needs to end with the new Nat Team Director.
Or maybe the assistants are actually the primary coaches and the head coaches have nothing to do with the athlete.
No Bob Bowman?
Vlad polyakov. Isn’t he the breastroker from kazakstan??? Well old breastroker
Vlad supplies the Potassium, best in all Central Asia.
For the coaches’ medley relay, based on best times, I’d go with McCaffrey (back), Hansen (breast, with Gangloff the prelims), Mike Bottom (fly), and Hawke (free, with Demont prelims).
You probably should pick up Chitwood for back. Sorry Garrett 🙂
You’re right. So B relay is Garrett, Sergio, Gangloff, and Demont.
I’d take Brent Mitchell for breast on B relay…sergio was a better 200 swimmer.
Brett Hawke coaches the Brazilian swimming team ??
Or did he resign ??
When does Sergio take over at Auburn ?
What do these coaches get for being named to the national team?? Perks?? Bonus $???
Jack squat other than a good PR boost
They get to continue to work with their athletes that have made the National team.