Brendan Hansen has been appointed as USA Swimming’s Nationwide Junior Workforce Director. As a part of the place, Hansen will develop applications to take swimmers from top-performing age group swimmers to the Olympic Video games.
Hansen beforehand served as Director of Workforce Providers for USA Swimming. He joined the USA Swimming staff in 2019, and has since labored on instructional supplies and assets for coaches and golf equipment. He was an in-venue host for the Olympic Trials 3 times, and has held management positions for a number of totally different worldwide competitions.
Underneath Hansen’s management, People gained the staff award with 44 whole medals on the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships.
“Brendan affords distinctive expertise to this function; he has been an athlete, a coach, and a employees member, so he understands the considerations and motivation of so a lot of our key stakeholders,” USA Swimming Chief Working Officer and interim Chief Government Officer Shana Ferguson stated in a press launch. “We’re thrilled Brendan is transferring to the Nationwide Workforce employees to assist propel our Nationwide Junior Workforce program via the following quad.”
Exterior of his management positions, Hansen is a six-time Olympic medalist and 25-time worldwide medalist. He beforehand held the world document within the 100m and 200m breaststroke, was a 13-time NCAA champion, and a 16-time All-American.
Following the top of his lively swimming profession, Hansen was the founding head coach a USA Swimming Membership program in Austin, Texas, referred to as Austin Swim Membership. Hansen constructed the staff of over 300 swimmers, and 10 swimmers from the membership competed within the 2016 Olympic Trials, qualifying the staff as a USA Swimming Membership Excellence Gold Medal Workforce.
“As soon as I made the Nationwide Junior Workforce in 1997, I had mentors information me to the Nationwide Workforce and constant successes for 13 years throughout three quadrennium,” Hansen stated within the press launch. “I sit up for the chance to be that chief whereas connecting present athletes with my technology of Nationwide Junior Workforce and Nationwide Workforce alumni. It will probably actually be a life-changing second for an athlete and coach to make the Nationwide Junior staff roster, and I’m excited to be a part of the inner staff that drives that have for them.”
Erik Posegay held the place of Nationwide Junior Workforce Director earlier than Hansen. Posegay was employed in March of 2022 after the place sat vacant for almost two years. In September of 2023, Posegay was promoted to Nationwide Coach along with his authentic title with USA Swimming.
In April, Posegay was employed by Bob Bowman to be an affiliate head coach of the boys’s staff, making him one of many highest-paid assistants within the nation at a base wage of $120,000. Posegay and Bowman labored collectively on the North Baltimore Aquatic Membership for 4 years.
There was a comparatively fast turnaround between Posegay leaving the place to Hansen being employed, particularly on condition that the job was vacant for 2 years earlier than Posegay stepped in.
USA Swimming continues to be trying to find a brand new Nationwide Workforce Director, as they not too long ago created a 9-member process drive to start the hiring course of. Nonetheless, the place is more likely to stay empty till the hiring of a brand new CEO. The corporate has been on the seek for a brand new CEO since Tim Hinchey was let go in August after seven years on the job. Shana Ferguson took over as interim CEO later that very same day.
Hansen is initially from Haverford, Pennsylvania. He moved to Austin, Texas, to attend the College of Texas the place he earned a bachelor’s diploma in kinesiology in 2005. In 2015, he was inducted into the College of Texas Athletics Corridor of Honor and the Texas Swimming and Diving Corridor of Fame. 5 years later, he was inducted into the Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Fame. This yr, he turned a member of the Philadelphia Sports activities Corridor of Fame.
