Each the boys’s and ladies’s swimming & diving groups at Stanford are searching for new coaches so as to add to their staffs subsequent season.
For the ladies’s program, the Cardinal are searching for to interchange assistant coach Kim Brackin, who joined the employees in January for his or her run to the NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials.
In keeping with Stanford head ladies’s coach Greg Meehan, Brackin dedicated to six months once they introduced her in. Her final day with this system would be the final day of the US Olympic Trials, at which level she is going to head again residence to Florida.
The Stanford ladies completed fifth finally yr’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships despite dropping numerous massive identify swimmers to switch (Claire Curzan), going professional (Regan Smith), or Olympic redshirts (Torri Huske). Of their absence, lesser-known swimmers like Lucy Bell, Caroline Bricker, and Aurora Roghair dropped vital time and nudged their methods into the nationwide dialog.
Brackin was an assistant coach and co-head coach at Auburn within the early 2000s once they had been the NCAA’s dominant program on the boys’s and ladies’s facet and would later turn out to be the pinnacle coach on the College of Texas. After leaving Austin, she began a enterprise coaching youth and Masters swimmers out of a swim spa.
That place has a listed pay vary of $66,560 to $70,000 per yr.
The lads’s group, in the meantime, might be changing assistant coach Neil Caskey, head coach Dan Schemmel says. Caskey is trying towards careers exterior of teaching after his spouse accepted a job in Texas, the place they’re each from.
“Very bittersweet as we’ve been collectively for a very long time but additionally very excited for him,” Schemmel stated.
Caskey, who swam on the College of Texas, has been Schemmel’s assistant for all 5 years at Stanford. The 2 additionally overlapped for a interval on the College of Wisconsin within the 2015-2016 season earlier than Schemmel left to turn out to be the pinnacle coach on the College of Hawaii.
Caskey has a bachelor’s diploma in promoting from Texas and an MS in Instructional Management and Athletic Administration from Wisconsin.
The Stanford males completed eighth finally yr’s NCAA Championship meet, matching their 2023 end and putting one spot behind their 2022 end.
Whereas Caskey’s title was “assistant coach,” the job posting lists “Affiliate Head Coach” because the title of the job. The anticipated pay vary for the place is $90,000 to $100,000 per yr based on the job posting.
Stanford will transfer to the ACC convention subsequent season, the place they’ll face nationwide powers like defending NCAA ladies’s champions Virginia, NC State, and Louisville.
