Swimming and Diving
The men's team started in the 1953-54 season and the women's team started in the 1977-78 season. In 1957, the men's swimming and diving team became the first team at ECU to win a national championship. Over the years, 87 ECU swimmers and divers have been All-Americans. The men's teams were Conference Champions in 1986 and 1989 in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). The women's team won conference championships in 1995 through 1997 and 2000 in the CAA; 2001 in the East Coast Athletic Conference; and 2003 in C-USA. The head coach is Rick Kobe. The assistant coaches are Matt Jabs, Kate Gordon, and Ed Pretre; Mark Lenzi serves as the head diving coach.
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“Whenever parents become overly invested in a particular skill or accomplishment, a child’s fear of failure multiplies. This is why some children refuse to get into the pool for a swimming lesson, or turn their back on Daddy’s favorite sport.”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)