Fletcher Gilders - Coaching Accolades

Coaching Accolades

Upon retirement from athletics, Fletcher Gilders enjoyed a noteworthy career as a swimming and diving coach at Ohio University and Kenyon College. Coach Gilders guided the OU Bobcats for more than a quarter-century (1959-1984); winning five Mid-American Conference team titles along the way. At Kenyon, during the 1980s and 90s, Gilders and his athletes won 14 consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference championships and eight individual NCAA Division III diving titles; Gilders would also earn NCAA-D3 Coach of the Year honors on three occasions.

Detroit's Fletcher Gilders has earned a comparatively rare distinction; he is an inductee to the Athletic Hall of Fame at Ohio State University, Ohio University, and Kenyon College.