WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS/QUICK FACTS 2004-05TABLE Season HighlightsOF CONTENTS 2-3 HeadCOACHING Coach STAFF Bill Roberts October2005-06 SCHEDULE Coaching Staff 4-5 Alma Mater Springfield 92 15 Geo. Washington/Loyola 12 Noon 2005-06 Season Outlook 6-7 Year at Navy Third 22 Johns Hopkins 11 a.m. 2005-06 Roster 8 Navy Record 18-15 29 at UMBC 12 Noon Meet the Midshipmen 9-21 Career Record 57-51 (Five Seasons) 2004-05 Season In Review 22-23 Phone (410) 293-3012 November Coaching History / Yearly Records/Captains 24 E-Mail [email protected] Year-by-Year Results 25-27 12 at Bucknell / vs. Lafayette 2 p.m. 19 Brown / Dartmouth 12 Noon The Army-Navy Series 28 Assistant Coach Adam Kennedy Conference Meet History 29 Alma Mater Davidson 01 Records 30-31 Year at Navy Second December The United States Naval Academy 32-34 Phone (410) 293-5834 1 Army 7:15 p.m. The EISL / The Patriot League 35 E-Mail [email protected] Lejeune Hall 36 January Diving Coach Joe Suriano 7 Harvard 3:30 p.m. Alma Mater Michigan 70 14 at Cornell / vs.Yale 12 Noon Year at Navy 28th 28 Penn 3 p.m. LocationNAVY QUICK FACTS Annapolis, Md. Phone (410) 293-2970 Superintendent: Vice Adm. Rodney P.Rempt, USN E-Mail [email protected] February Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk 11 at Princeton / vs. Columbia 1 p.m. Nickname Midshipmen, Mids 23-25 *Patriot League Championship School Colors Navy Blue and Gold Home Pool Lejeune Hall (1,000) O162004-05 Lafayette RESULTS W 202-82 March Conferences EISL, Patriot League O18 Rider W 175-120 2-4 %EISL Championship O23 Johns Hopkins W 141-96 10-12 ^NCAA Diving Zone O29 UMBC L 122-121 Championship N10 George Washington W 155-82 23-25 #NCAA Championship SPORTS N13 Bucknell W 234-66 N13 UNC Wilmington W 167-131 Home Meets in Bold at Lejeune Hall N20 at Brown W 134-107 SwimmingINFORMATION SID Justin Kischefsky *Patriot League Championship –– Annapolis, Md. N20 vs. Dartmouth W 162-81 %EISL Championship —— East Meadow, N.Y. Phone (410) 293-8772 D2 at Army W 130-113 Fax (410) 293-8954 ^NCAA Zone Diving Championship –– J8 at Harvard L 187-113 Annapolis, Md. E-mail [email protected] J15 Cornell L 122-121 #NCAA Championship —— Atlanta, Ga. Website www.navysports.com J15 Yale W 136-107 J29 at Penn L 130-113 F5 Princeton L 167-133 F12 at Columbia L 166-134 TEAM F24-26 Patriot League Meet First 822.5 pts. M3-5 EISL Meet Eighth 686 pts. 2004-05INFORMATION Overall Record 10-6 2004-05 Patriot League Meet Finish First (822.5) 2004-05 EISL Meet Finish Eighth (686) Letterwinners Returning/Lost 21/5 Newcomers 13 The 2005-06 On the cover – Navy’s 2005-06 Senior Class Men’s Swimming and Diving Team 1 2005-06 NAVY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING 2005-06 NAVY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING 2004-05 SEASON IN REVIEW Pictured is the 2004-05 team just after completing the 2004 Sunfest Open Water Swim. BRING IT IN. 2005 team cap- tain Jake Keefe leads the team just prior to champi- onship competition. SHARING THE WIN. Joe Smutz acknowledges his teammates just after a victorious relay in EISL competition 2 WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM Eight members of the great class of 2005 were honored for their time and accomplishments during their final home meet. IN GREAT COMPANY. Kevin Teague '07, pictured with EISL High Point Winner & Harvard distance standout John Cole and Olympic champion Rowdy Gaines, was named the 2005 EISL Diver of the Meet in March. NAVY RACE CLUB. Mike Linn, Joe Smutz and Danny Flemming placed among the top eight swimmers in the 100 freestyle at the 2005 Patriot League Championship. 3 2005-06 NAVY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING 2005-06 NAVY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING HEAD* COACH BILL ROBERTS THIRD YEAR SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ‘92 Bill Roberts begins his third season as the head ROBERTS’ HISTORY coach of the Navy mens Hometown Aurora, N.Y. swimming program this fall, Education B.S., Springfield 92; M. Ed., East Carolina 96 as well as his sixth year at the Naval Academy. During his initial season 1992-94COACHING BACKGROUND Head Coach,Wells College (Women) as the programs mentor, 1994-96 Graduate Assistant Coach, East Carolina (M&W) Roberts coached the 1996-97 Assistant Coach,Villanova (M&W) Midshipmen to the 2003-04 1997-2000 Assistant Coach, U.S. Naval Academy (Men) Patriot League title, a sixth- 2000-03 Head Coach, Colgate (M&W) place finish at the Eastern 2003-pres. Head Coach, U.S. Naval Academy (Men) Intercollegiate Swimming League meet and returned work once again at the Naval Academy. This position means the Navy to the NCAA National world to me. Championship for the first The goals of the program are to provide an environment that time since 1996. Along the will allow every team member to reach their potential academically, way, his swimmers won 10 individual and relay titles at the Patriot athletically and personally. We want to be the premier service acade- League meet and captured the 400 freestyle relay event at the EISL my for those interested in swimming and diving in college. championship. Additionally, it is our expectation that we will annually compete for a Last season, Navy again won the Patriot League title and record- conference championship while sending athletes to the NCAA and ed the programs highest regular season winning percentage —— 62.5 Olympic Trial meets. percent —— in five years and its most victories —— 10 —— in seven sea- A 1992 graduate of Springfield College, where he was a four-year sons. The season ended with Joe Smutz and Mike Linn competing in letterwinner and served as team captain for two seasons, Roberts multiple events at the prestigious World Championship Trials in began his coaching career upon graduation as the head coach of the Indianapolis, Ind. womens team at Wells College in his hometown of Aurora, N.Y. After Roberts first arrived at Navy during the summer of 1997 when two seasons at Wells, he served as a graduate assistant coach at East he joined Lee Lawrences coaching staff as an assistant coach. In three Carolina, during seasons together, the Lawrence-Roberts duo guided Navy to a 27-10 which time he record, including an 18-9 mark in the Eastern Intercollegiate earned a masters Swimming League. Roberts coached Navys 200 freestyle relay team degree in athletic that won the 1999 EISL title, and helped develop sprinter Clint administration. In Cornell into a 2000 Olympic Trials appearance and to the 2001 EISL the summer of 1996, 50-yard freestyle title. he joined the After three seasons at Navy, Roberts took over as head coach of Villanova program the mens and womens swimming teams at Colgate. During the for one year before 2002-03 season, the Colgate women placed fourth in the Patriot coming to the Naval League, the programs highest finish since an identical showing during Academy. the 1996-97 campaign. His mens teams placed fifth in the Patriot Roberts, 35, and League during each of his seasons in Hamilton, which was highlighted his wife, Nicole, have during the 2002 season by Matt Vuturo becoming the programs first three sons —— Will, individual swimming champion in six years. age six, Nick, age Dreams do come true, said Roberts upon accepting the posi- four, and Jackson, age tion of head coach at Navy. To coach swimming at the U.S. Naval two. Academy is an opportunity of a lifetime. I feel blessed to have served at such a wonderful school as Colgate, and to now have the chance to YEARLYYear Team DIVISION W-L PLCI HEAD Place COACHING PLC Titles (I/R) RECORD EISL Place EISL Titles (I/R) NCAA Place 2001 Colgate Men 5-6 Fifth (327.5) 0 (0 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2001 Colgate Women 6-5 Fifth (414) 2 (2 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2002 Colgate Men 6-6 Fifth (396) 1 (1 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2002 Colgate Women 7-5 Fifth (372) 0 (0 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2003 Colgate Men 6-8 Fifth (365) 2 (2 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2003 Colgate Women 9-6 Fourth (494) 1 (1 / 0) n/a n/a n/a 2004 Navy Men 8-9 First (810) 10 (5 / 5) Sixth (659.5) 1 (0 / 1) 28th (14) 2005 Navy Men 10-6 First (822.5) 7 (3 / 4) Eighth (686) 0 n / a Overall 57-51 —— 23 (14 / 9) —— 1 (0 / 1) —— 4 WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM JOE SURIANO ENS. ADAM KENNEDY DIVING COACH ASSISTANT COACH 28TH SEASON SECOND SEASON Joe Suriano begins his 28th season as Navys Adam Kennedy begins his second season as a diving coach. Under his tutelage, nine divers on member of the Navy coaching staff and his third Navys mens team and two divers on the year as an assistant to head coach Bill Roberts. women’s team have qualified for 19 NCAA Kennedy guided Navys sprint and breast- Division I Championships. All told, his divers have stroke groups to four NCAA B cut times last earned 14 Division I All-America accolades. season and saw Joe Smutz and Mike Linn compete at the World One of the highlights of his coaching career came in 1991 when Championship Trials in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events. In addi- he was named as the Division II Coach of the Year after Stacia Johnson tion, Kennedys swimmers qualified for a trio of relay events and sev- captured the NCAA title.