The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Seven Texas Swim & Dive Coaches Named CSCAA Top 100 Greatest Coach
12.07.2021 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
AUSTIN, Texas – Seven University of Texas swim and dive coaches, past and present, were selected into the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association's (CSCAA) 100 Greatest College Swimming & Diving Coaches of the past 100 years.
Highlighted by the likes of Eddie Reese, current men's head swim coach, Carol Capitani, current women's head Swim coach and Matt Scoggin, current head diving coach, Texas was well represented on this top 100 list.
Longhorns list of Honorees:
Carol Capitani: Following a runner-up performance at the 2021 NCAA National Championships, Capitani has led Texas to NCAA top-10 finishes in seven of her nine seasons with the Longhorns. The seven-time Big 12 Coach of the Year has guided Texas has nine-straight Big 12 team titles.
Kris Kubik: A great associate head coach who stood alongside Eddie Reese for 34 seasons (1979-81, 1986-2016, Kubik helped Texas capture 12 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, including four consecutive titles from 1988-1991, three-straight championships from 2000-02 and back-to-back crowns in 2015 and 2016. A 2011 inductee into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor, the Longhorns also registered nine NCAA runner-up finishes, 26 top-three finishes and 32 NCAA top-five team showings with 54 NCAA individual titles during his two stints with the program.
Richard Quick: Led Texas Women's Swimming to five-straight NCAA team titles from 1984-1988 in his six-year stint on the Forty Acres. He also served as head coach for the U.S. Olympic women's swimming team in 1988, 1996 and 2000 and was the team's assistant coach in 1984, 1992 and 2004.
Eddie Reese: With 15 NCAA team titles under his belt in 43 seasons at Texas, the most decorated and winningest coach in NCAA history resides in Austin, Texas. In addition to the 15 national championships, the 3-time CSCAA National Coach of the Year and eight-time NCAA Coach of the Year has led the Longhorns to 12 runner-up finishes, 33 top-three finishes and 41 consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, as well as 42-straight Big 12 titles.
Mark Schubert: Led Texas to two NCAA Championships during his four-year tenure (1989-1992), helping 12 Longhorns win individual NCAA titles and eight relay titles. His success with the Longhorns earned him 1990 NCAA Coach of the Year honors.
Matt Scoggin: Now in his 27th season with the Longhorns, two-time U.S. Olympic Committee National Diving Coach of the Year and 29 Big 12 Diving Coach of the Year award-winner Matt Scoggin shows no signs of slowing down. Scoggin has coached 21 individual NCAA champions, 39 Big 12 title-winners, 14 Big 12 Women's Diver of the Year and 15 Big 12 Men's Diver of the Year honorees, including two 4-time divers of the year awardees. More recently, he served as the U.S. Olympic Diving Team Assistant Coach for the 2020 Olympic Games, where three divers with Texas background competed – Alison Gibson, Jordan Windle and Hailey Hernandez.
Jill Sterkel: After a historic swimming career at The University of Texas, Sterkel guided the Longhorns to further success as the head coach for 14 seasons. She led the Longhorns to eight-straight Big 12 titles and was awarded Big 12 Swimming Coach of the Year five times on her way to coaching two swimmers (Whitney Hedgepath and Erin Phenix) to Olympic teams.
Founded in 1922, the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), is the nation's first organization of college coaches. The mission of the CSCAA is to advance the sport of swimming and diving with coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development.
The CSCAA100 list of Greatest College Swimming and Diving Coaches is listed below in alphabetical order. For profiles on each selection visit www.cscaa.org/cscaa100
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