2005-2006 Coaches Profiles MARK SCHUBERT HEAD COACH •14TH YEAR Mark Schubert, who is in his 14th year as head Jensen all won medals at the coach of the USC men’s swimming team and 2003 World Championships 13th in charge of the women’s team, has led a (Schubert was an assistant program at Troy that mirrors his own career as a coach for the U.S. team) in coach. Both are unparalleled. what was a preview of the Each feature a storied resume of NCAA 2004 Games. accolades, a distinguished history of Olympic Jensen and Kalyn Keller success and a blossoming international shared the spotlight with relationship that complements it all. Sandeno at the 2003 Here are the basics. U.S. Summer Nationals, Schubert has won three NCAA team titles and dominating much of the his squads have won 49 NCAA individual titles. event with a combined eight USC’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving titles. teams have won a combined 10 team titles and NCAA titles by Mellouli 146 NCAA (and AIAW) individual titles. (400y IM) and Jensen (1650y In August of 2004, in Athens, Greece, free) highlighted USC’s Schubert had his third stint as a United States men’s efforts at the 2005 Swimming head coach and his seventh NCAA Championships. consecutive assignment as an Olympic coach. Seven Trojans won All- Also in Athens, USC swimmers and divers American honors last year, the top seven nine times, including its first-ever continued their own Olympic success, winning including Flaskay, who barely missed an NCAA national championship in 1997. a combined 13 medals, including four golds. title with a second in the 100y breast. Hartley Also in that span, his women’s squads have Among Troy’s aquatic accomplishments is won an NCAA title on 3-meter springboard to produced 17 NCAA individual titles, one relay accounting for almost half of the USC Athletic highlight USC’s women’s efforts, which included title, 28 Pac-10 individual titles and one relay Department’s Olympic medal count, which totals an All-American performance from Marisa title. His men’s teams have won nine NCAA more than 200. Kozak and an All-American showing in the 800y individual titles, one NCAA relay title, 32 Pac- And more and more, both Schubert and free relay. 10 individual titles and five Pac-10 relay titles. USC are enjoying their success thanks to teams Though USC finished out of the running at Additionally, the men’s and women’s swimming with rosters that read like a United Nations’ roll the NCAA Championships in 2004, Troy still had programs are a combined 137-54 in dual-meet call. In the past four seasons alone, USC has some amazing results. Sandeno won two NCAA competition under Schubert. had swimmers from Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, titles and took second in a third while Kalyn Keller Schubert is also the director of the highly Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Hungary, Tunisia, won her first NCAA title (the two also combined successful Trojan Swim Club, which won the Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica. to win four Pac-10 titles). The men’s team was 1999 U.S. Summer Nationals women’s and All three areas have converged the last three highlighted a pair of second-place finishes by combined team championships and the 2003 years, shining in national and international. Mellouli, who also won three Pac-10 individual U.S. Summer Nationals women’s title. His “Swim Most recently, at the 2005 World titles. with SChubert” swim camp, like his USC and Championships in Montreal, junior Larsen The 2003 season was extremely successful Trojan Swim Club teams, works out of USC’s Jensen won a pair of silver medals (800m and as the both teams remained among the elite in McDonald’s Swim Stadium. 1500m free) while senior Ous Mellouli won the country. Schubert guided the women to third One of the United States’ most recognizable two bronze medals (400m IM and 400m free). place at the NCAA Championships, its highest and successful coaches of all-time, Schubert was Former great Kaitlin Sandeno won a gold (800m finish since winning the team title in 1997. The inducted into the International Swimming Hall of free relay) and a bronze (400m IM) while diver women’s team had five All-American swimmers Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 10, 1997 Blythe Hartley won a gold (1meter). who earned a combined 16 All-American as “Honor Coach.” The same year, he also was USC was well represented in Athens in 2004 honors. The men’s squad took fifth for the named Coach of the Year by five organizations: with 18 athletes from four continents competing. second year in a row and finished in the top six American Swimming Coaches Association, Among the medal winners were Klete Keller, Erik for the seventh year in a row. The team featured United States Olympic Committee, United States Vendt, Hartley (Canada), Jensen and Sandeno eight swimmers who earned a combined 21 All- Swimming, NCAA and Pac-10. Two years later, while others like Ous (Tunisia) and Kalyn Keller American honors. he earned a trio of Coach of the Year awards in were finalists. Mellouli also won a gold at the Since Schubert came on board at Troy in 1999, coming from the USOC, ASCA and USS. 2004 World Championships. 1992, he has directed his men’s squads into the Schubert’s international coaching experience In 2003, Mellouli, Mihaly Flaskay (Hungary), top seven at the NCAA Championships eight is highlighted by his seven consecutive coaching Hartley, Vendt, USC great Lindsay Benko and times and has guided the women’s team into appearances with U.S. Olympic swim teams. In 40 2005-2006 USC Swimming and Diving 2005-2006 Coaches Profiles Mark Schubert‘s Collegiate Record YEAR SCHOOL RECORD PAC-10 NCAA FIN. NCAA TITLES CONF. FINISH HONORS 1989 Texas (W) 6-2 — 2 4 1 1990 Texas (W) 9-1 — 1 5 1 1990 NCAA Coach of the Year 1991 Texas (W) 6-1 — 1 8 1 1992 Texas (W) 7-1 — 2 3 1 1992 Olympic Head Coach 1993 USC (M) 8-3 2-2 13 0 4 1994 USC (M) 8-1 3-1 6 0 3 USC (W) 8-1 4-1 6 4 3 1995 USC (M) 6-2 2-2 10 0 3 USC (W) 8-1 4-1 7 0 4 1996 USC (M) 8-1 3-1 7 0 4 1996 Olympic Assistant Coach USC (W) 9-1 4-1 4 5 3 1996 Pac-10 Coach of the Year 1997 USC (M) 8-0 4-0 6 1 2 USC (W) 9-1 4-1 1 4 2 1997 NCAA, Pac-10, USS, USOC, ASCA Coach of the Year 1998 USC (M) 5-2 2-2 5 0 2 USC (W) 8-1 4-1 5 0 2 1999 USC (M) 6-1 3-1 6 0 2 1999 USS, USOC USC (W) 6-2 3-2 6 1 2 and ASCA Coach of the Year 2000 USC (M) 5-2 2-2 6 1 3 2000 Olympic Head Coach USC (W) 5-3 2-3 7 0 5 2001 USC (M) 3-3 1-3 4 2 2 USC (W) 4-3 2-3 6 0 3 2002 USC (M) 4-5 0-4 5 4 4 USC (W) 5-4 1-4 4 2 2 2003 USC (M) 5-3 2-2 3 2 3 USC (W) 5-3 2-3 3 0 3 2004 USC (M) 1-6 0-4 14 0 4 USC (W) 3-5 1-4 9 3 6 2005 USC (M) 4-3 2-2 9 2 3 USC (W) 1-5-1 0-4-1 10 0 5 Overall 169-67-1 49 USC (Men) 71-32 10 USC (Women) 71-30-1 17 Mark Schubert’s Mark Schubert’s U.S. Olympians Career Highlights 2004 1980 (USA Boycott) Lindsay Benko ..........................................1 GOLD Steve Barnicoat Larsen Jensen ........................................... 1 SILVER Jesse Vassallo HAS WON THREE NCAA TEAM TITLES, TWO AT Rhi Jeffrey ................................................1 GOLD Brian Goodell Kayln Keller Mary Beth Linzmeier TEXAS (1990-91) AND ONE AT USC (1997) Klete Keller ............................1 GOLD, 1 BRONZE • Lenny Krayzelburg.....................................1 GOLD 1976 Kaitlin Sandeno ....... 1 GOLD, 1 SILVER, 1 BRONZE Brian Goodell .........................................2 GOLD IS ATHLETES AT THE TWO SCHOOLS HAVE WON H Erik Vendt ................................................ 1 SILVER Casey Converse 49 NCAA INDIVIDUAL AND RELAY TITLES Gabe Woodward ................................. 1 BRONZE Shirley Babashoff ....................................1 GOLD ............................................................... 4 SILVER • 2000 Maryanne Graham HAS PLACED 38 OF HIS SWIMMERS ON U.S. Klete Keller ............................1 SILVER, 1 BRONZE Nicole Kramer Lenny Krayzelburg.....................................3 GOLD Marsha Morey OLYMPIC TEAMS, INCLUDING TRIPLE MEDALLIST Lindsay Benko ..........................................1 GOLD KAITLIN SANDENO (2004), TRIPLE GOLD MEDAL Erik Vendt ................................................ 1 SILVER WINNERS LENNY KRAYZELBURG (2000) 1996 AND MARY T. MEAGHER (1984) AND DOUBLE Brad Bridgewater .....................................1 GOLD Janet Evans GOLD MEDAL WINNERS TIFFANY COHEN (1984) Kristine Quance .....................................1 GOLD AND BRIAN GOODELL (1976) 1992 • Janet Evans .............................................1 GOLD HAS COACHED U.S. TEAMS IN THEM LAST ............................................................... 1 SILVER Erika Hansen SEVEN OLYMPICS, INCLUDING SERVING AS HEAD Lawrence Frostad COACH OF THE U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM IN 2004, 1988 THE MEN’S TEAM IN 2000 AND THE WOMEN’S Dan Veatch Erika Hansen TEAM IN 1992. HIS 2000 MEN’S TEAM WON Susan Johnson 16 MEDALS, INCCLUDING SEVEN GOLDS. HIS 1984 1992 WOMEN’S TEAM WON 14 MEDALS, Mike O’Brien ..........................................1 GOLD INCLUDING FIVE GOLDS. Rich Saeger ............................................1 GOLD • Tiffany Cohen .........................................2 GOLD Mary T. Meagher .....................................3 GOLD INDUCTED INTO THE INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING Dara Torres .............................................1 GOLD Amy White .............................................