Richard Walter Quick was a Hall of Fame head coach for the women's swim teams at the University of Texas from 1982 through 1988 and at Stanford University, from 1988 through 2005. In an unprecedented achievement, Quick's Women's teams at Texas and Stanford won a combined 12 NCAA National championships, with his Men and Women's team at Auburn winning his final championship in 2009. His teams won a combined 22 Conference championships. He was a coach for the United States Olympic swimming team for six Olympics—1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004.
Jeremy Porter Linn is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record-holder and current swim coach. Linn set an American record in the 100-meter breaststroke while winning the silver medal in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in a time of 1:00.77. With a burst of speed in the final stretch, he finished just .12 seconds behind the gold medal winner from Belgium who had previously set the World Record.
Robert Lynn Clotworthy was an American diver and swimmer for Ohio State, and a 1956 Olympic gold and 1952 bronze medalist in the 3-meter springboard. He later had a successful career as a coach from around 1955-76, with his longest stint at Princeton from 1958-1970 where he led the team to the 1962 Eastern Seaboard Championships, and produced Princeton's first Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Jed Graef.
David Holmes "Dave" Edgar is an American former swimmer, 1972 Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. In a period of seven years, he lost only one 50-yard race, due to a faulty starting block. Excelling in the efficiency of his flip turn technique under the mentorship of Coach Ray Bussard at the University of Tennessee, many consider Edgar one of the greatest short course 50 and 100-yard sprinters of the 1970s.
Matthew Haynes Vogel is a swim coach of over forty years, an American former competition swimmer for the University of Tennessee, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist in the butterfly and medley relay, and a former world record-holder in the 4x100-meter medley relay event.
Mark Daniel Bradshaw is an American retired diver who competed for Ohio State University. He represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth place in the Men's 3m Springboard event.
Patrick S. Jeffrey is a retired diver from the United States who competed for Ohio State University and participated in Platform diving for the U.S. team in the 1988 and 1996 Olympics. Excelling as a coach, he would later coach diving at Florida State from 1999 to 2014, at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at Stanford University after 2014.
Karen Marie LaFace is a retired American female diver for Ohio State University and a 1992 U.S. Olympic competitor in 3m springboard diving. She later worked as a physician and coached diving in Ithaca, New York.
Kelly Anne McCormick is a retired Hall of Fame female diver from the United States. She dove for Ohio State University and twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, winning a silver (1984) and a bronze medal (1988) in the Women's 3m Springboard event.
Richard Fitch Cleveland was a Hawaiian-born American competition Hall of Fame swimmer, three-time Pan American Games champion, and former world record-holder in the 100 meters and 100 yard events. He attended Ohio State University, and was one of the early competitive swimmers to benefit from the use of weight training in the off season. He later worked as a real estate broker
James Alan Gaughran was an American water polo player, and competitive swimmer for Stanford University, who became a Hall of Fame Head Swimming and Water Polo Coach for Stanford from 1960–79. A former Olympian, Gaughran competed in Water Polo for the U.S. in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
David John Pichler was an American diver for Ohio State University and an Olympic diving competitor representing the United States in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where Pichler was elected team captain.
Ray Bussard was a Hall of Fame collegiate and Olympic swimming coach from the United States, best known for coaching the University of Tennessee Swimming team from 1968-1989. A specialist in developing sprinters, his overall career winning percentage in dual meets was .926, an unprecedented achievement. Earlier, he had been a gifted collegiate athlete at Bridgewater College and had coached field sports in Tennessee and Virginia High Schools.
The Tennessee Volunteers men's Swimming and Diving program represents the University of Tennessee located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers are currently coached by Matt Kredich. The Vols host their swim meets in the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center which was newly built in 2008. The Vols compete in the SEC where they have won 10 SEC team titles, 173 individual titles and 45 relay crowns. Over the past 75 years of competition the Vols have produced numerous All-Americans, 24 Olympians, scored in 53 consecutive NCAA Championship meets, won 45 individual NCAA titles and won 1 NCAA National Title.
Ron O'Brien was an American diving coach and author. He was the head Ohio State University coach from 1963 to 1978. He coached Olympic champion Greg Louganis and future Ohio State Diving Coach Vince Panzano.
Donald de Wayne "Don" Harper was an American diver who competed for Ohio State University and won a silver medal in springboard diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Gregory "Greg" Jagenburg is an American former competition swimmer and a World Aquatics Champion in butterfly who swam for Long Beach State and the University of Arizona under Hall of Fame Coach Dick Jochums. In August 1975, Jagenburg swam a 2:00.73 in the 200-meter butterfly, just .03 seconds behind Mark Spitz's standing world record in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
Glen Allen Whitten was an American diver and 1956 Olympic 3-meter springboard competitor who was an All American and NCAA champion for Ohio State University, and later worked as a dentist and inventor.
John Trembley is an American former All-American competition swimmer for the University of Tennessee, and swim coach. After a highly successful swimming career with Tennessee under coach Ray Bussard, Trembley coached the University of Tennessee Volunteers for 23 years from 1989-2012, leading the team to two SEC Championships.
Mike Peppe was a Hall of Fame swim coach for Ohio State University from 1931 to 1962, where he led the team to 11 NCAA, 12 Big Ten, and 10 AAU Championships. With an exceptional winning percentage at Ohio State in dual meets of .82, and an unmatched record of 11 NCAA national swimming and diving championships, the American Swimming Coaches Association named Peppe to its list of the 100 greatest coaches of the past century.
