Florida Head Coach Gregg Troy Named a Head Coach for U.S. Pan Pacific Swim Team
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Women's Swimming & Diving
University of Florida head swimming coach Gregg Troy, the 2010 NCAA Women's Swimming Coach of the Year and the 2010 SEC Men's Swim Coach of the Year, was announced a head coach for the men's United States Pan Pacific Swim Team by USA Swimming. Troy will lead the men's athletes at the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships, while Cal women's head coach Teri McKeever, will tutor the USA women's swimmers at the championships in Irvine, Calif., starting Aug. 18.
The 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships will take place August 18-22 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatic Center in Irvine, Calif., and will feature top swimmers from the U.S., Australia, Canada and Japan. The event marks the first time in 15 years that the U.S. will host the elite international competition.
“Teri and Gregg are without question, two of the best swimming coaches in the nation,” said Mark Schubert, USA Swimming's national team head coach and general manager. “As highly-decorated NCAA coaches with a depth of international experience, our pool team could not ask for better leadership at the year's most important international competition.”
Under Troy, 2010 was one for the record books as the Florida women brought in the school's first National Championship in 28 years. Led by five school records and two national championship performances, the 2010 squad pulled out a close victory over second-place finisher Stanford March 20. Florida scored 382 points, edging out the Cardinal (279.5) in the second-closest NCAA competition ever. A total of 12 All-Americans tallied 36 All-America performances on the Purdue campus at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center.
While the women's team swam and dove its most complete Championship meet in recent history, the 2010 men's swimming team rallied for its seventh top-five NCAA finish in Troy's tenure at Florida, scoring the most points in Florida history to finish seventh at the NCAA meet on the Ohio State campus after tallying 364 points with leverage from three national titles and five top-eight relay finishes. Junior newcomer Conor Dwyer (Winnetka, Ill.) was named the men's Division I National Men's Swimmer of the Year and senior Shaune Fraser (George Town, Grand Cayman) recorded one first and two second-place finishes, earning seven All-America honors to rack up an all-time Florida mark of 27 All-America honors, the most for a single men's swimmer or diver in school history. Ten other Gators collaborated with Fraser to collectively put on 38 All-America performances to highlight the 2010 campaign.
Additionally, Troy led both the 2010 Gator squads to second-place finishes at the 2010 SEC Championship meet, Florida's tenth straight top-three finish on both the men's and women's side.
The 2010 U.S. Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships team will be selected from performances at the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships in Irvine, Calif., August 3-7.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are held under the oversight of the Pan Pacific Swimming Association. The Association was established in the mid 1980s and is made up of the four founding swimming federations – Swimming Australia, Swimming Canada, the Japan Amateur Swimming Federations and USA Swimming. These charter nations developed the concept of a biennial swimming competition to provide their national teams with first class international competition between the two major international swimming competitions – the Olympic Games and the FINA World Championships.
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