Assistant Coach, Swim & Dive

Primary Purpose

The Assistant Coach of Swim & Dive teaches and instructs student-athletes how to perform in their sport, including sport-related fundamentals, skills, team concepts, and safety practices.

Essential Functions

• Develops a fundamental knowledge and maintains compliance of rules and regulations governing intercollegiate athletics while working within the department's rules, regulations, and policies.
• Supports an environment that emphasizes academics as a priority, making every effort to ensure that all student-athletes meet academic requirements, while working to integrate sports into the academic life of the University.
• Supports discipline in the program, promotes fairness, understanding and protectiveness of student-athletes while motivating them.
• Creates an environment of cooperation and continuous improvement, maintaining positive communications supporting the athletic program, the University and University staff.
• Edits student-athletes by emphasizing fundamental skills, conditioning tactics, meet preparation strategies, and building confidence.
• Fosters development of student-athletes' character in and out of the pool by exposing them to various methods of growth, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
• Models and builds desired traits in building the character and culture of the team by establishing and maintaining team principles, holding team accountable, conducting yourself with integrity, identifying and correcting a bad habit.
• Assists with home swim meet operations, including communicating the needs of set up and breakdown of swim meet, facilitating with meet set up and breakdown, running of the meet, ordering, paying, and distributing of team meals.
• Assists with arrangements of travel meets; submitting travel roster, requesting per diem, ordering and paying for all travel meals, arranging pick up of food, setting up and cleaning of team meals, researching best quote for hotel arrangement, booking hotel rooms once approved, assigning rooming list, completing team bed checks, and all other travel needs.
• Participates in marketing and promotional activities with media, alumni and civic group consistent with the objectives of the athletic program on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Participates and assists with recruiting effectively by making phone calls, creating and maintaining email conversations, evaluating and recruiting at swim meets, conversing with parents, giving campus tours, completing and managing all recruiting evaluations, assisting with unofficial and official visits by creating itineraries, booking travel arrangements, assigning hosts, assigning class sit in options, scheduling and any travel-related activities of prospective student-athletes.
• Assists in leading and facilitating practices for all divers, groups and dry land sessions.
• Assists with all compliance forms related to student athletes and perspective student athletes.
• Assists with administrative work, planning of fundraising events and volunteer events assigned by Head Coach. Assists with the completion of CARA practice logs, ordering of team gear and managing assistance with team parent group.

Physical Requirements

• Requires extended periods of sitting, standing and walking.
• Occasional climbing stairs, bending, stooping and reaching.
• Requires lengthy durations of time spent outdoors.
• Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment/Work Week/Travel

• Work is performed in a standard office environment and athletic venues during standard business hours, as well as during non-regular office hours to fulfill business needs.
• Occasional travel required for competition and recruiting.

Hiring Range

$54,080 per year.