2017-18 SWIMMING & DIVING FACT BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS COACHING STAFF Page Content Head Coach ..................................................Todd DeSorbo 2-6 Coaching Staff DeSorbo’s Office ........................................ 434-982-5756 7 2017-18 Men’s Roster DeSorbo’s Email [email protected] 8 Men’s Records Associate Head Coach .............................. Tyler Fenwick Fenwick’s Office ......................................... 434-982-5756 9-10 Men’s All-Time Top Times Fenwick’s [email protected] 11-13 Men’s ACC History Head Diving Coach ......................................Jason Glorius 14-16 Men’s NCAA History Glorius’ Office ................................................ 434-243-1153 17 Men’s Academic Accolades Glorius’ Email [email protected] 18 Men’s Team History Coach ........................................................... Blaire Bachman 19-24 Men’s Olympians/International History Bachman’s Office ....................................... 434-982-5756 25 Men at the National Level Bachman’s Email .................... [email protected] 26-29 Men’s Letterwinners Assistant Coach ...................................................Wes Foltz 30 2017-18 Women’s Roster Foltz’s Office ................................................ 434-982-5756 31 Women’s Records Foltz’s Email [email protected] Operations Assistant .................................Lizzy Lagasse 32-33 Women’s All-Time Top Times Lagasse’s Office .......................................... 434-924-2228 34-36 Women’s ACC History Lagasse’s Email [email protected] 37-40 Women’s NCAA History 41 Women’s Academic Accolades 42 Women’s Team History 43-46 Women’s Olympians/International History 47-48 Women’s Letterwinnners MEDIA INFORMATION Stephanie Withey Assistant Athletics Media Relations Director (Swimming & Diving Contact) Office: (434) 982-5500 Direct: (434) 982-5977 Email: [email protected] www.virginiasports.com www.facebook.com/uvaswimdive www.twitter.com/uvaswimdive www.instagram.com/uvaswimdive TODD DESORBO HEAD COACH Todd DeSorbo was hired as the head the relay. He posted a split of 47.73 alongside teammates men’s and women’s swimming and Caleb Dressel, Michael Phelps and Nathan Adrian to notch diving coach in August 2017. He joins a time of 3:12.38. the UVA staff after serving on the staff at NC State the past six seasons as the During the 2015-16 season, DeSorbo helped Bilis finish his associate head coach. career as the most decorated All-American in the NCAA era with 19 honors during the 2015-16 season. At the 2016 At NC State, DeSorbo worked primar- NCAA Championship Bilis earned top-three finishes in ily with the Wolfpack sprinters and the 50,100 and 200 freestyle, marking the fourth person was a developmental specialist. He in NCAA history to do so. DeSorbo also guided the men’s oversaw the programs’ recruiting, training and day-to-day 400 free relay of Held, Bilis, Andreas Schiellerup and Dahl 2017-18 FACT BOOK FACT 2017-18 operations. to the program and conference’s first NCAA title in a relay event. During his tenure at NC State, DeSorbo coached Ameri- can Olympic gold medalist Ryan Held (2016 Rio 4x100 He additionally helped the men’s squad win four of five free relay), USA Swimming national champion Justin Ress relay events at the conference championship and the and NCAA Champions in the 4x100 free relay (2016) and team’s second-straight conference title, as well as earn 4x200 free relay (2017).The NC State men won the last All-America honors in all five swims at the national meet. three ACC titles and the Wolfpack women captured the Prior to working at NC State, DeSorbo spent five seasons 2017 ACC title. Both NC State programs produced their as the assistant coach at UNC Wilmington. At UNCW, highest finishes at the NCAA Championships this past DeSorbo assisted with all facets of the Seahawk program, season. The Wolfpack men placed fourth overall while the including recruiting, student-athlete development and women’s team finished seventh. practice. During DeSorbo’s tenure in Wilmington, the Seahawk men won five of 10 straight CAA titles and the In 2017, his athletes earned seven individual ACC titles women finished in the top-three of the conference every and garnered 14 All-ACC honors, helping to lead both year. programs to sweep their respective ACC Championships meets. Additionally, DeSorbo coached 13 athletes to the Student-athletes directly under his tutelage set 35 school 2017 NCAA Championships where they collected over records, earned 100 all-conference honors, won 32 indi- 30 All-America honors on the way to the teams highest vidual and relay conference championships, and collected NCAA finishes in program history. 80 top-three conference finishes. On the men’s side, he led sprint standout Held to three Prior to joining the UNCW staff full-time, DeSorbo served top-eight individual performances at NCAAs, highlighted as the head swim coach for the Cape Fear Aquatic Club by a runner-up title in the 50 freestyle in a time of 18.60. from 2005-07, and was a graduate assistant at UNCW Andreas Vaziaos also tabbed three top-eight finishes, his from 1999-2000. highest being fifth in the 200 butterfly with a conference record and school record of 1:40.80. DeSorbo began his collegiate swimming career at Ken- tucky before transferring to UNCW in 1998-99. As a DeSorbo helped the women’s team clinch its first confer- senior at UNCW, DeSorbo was named CAA Champion- ence title since 1980. Under his leadership, Ky-lee Perry ships Swimmer of the Meet in 1999 after winning titles in had an outstanding rookie season in which she was the 200 backstroke, and both the 200 and 400 individual crowned champion in the 50 freestyle in school record medley. He set school records in both the 200 and 400 pace of 21.88 and qualified for NCAAs in the 50 and 100 individual medley, and made the All-ECAC team in 1999 freestyle. Perry was named ACC Female Freshman of the by winning the 400 individual at the Eastern Champion- Year. ships. In the summer of 2016, DeSorbo coached three athletes DeSorbo holds two accounting degrees from UNCW, to the Rio Olympic Games, as Held qualified for the earning a bachelor’s degree in 1999 and a master’s degree U.S.A.’s 4x100m freestyle relay, Soeren Dahl qualified for in 2000. A native of Salisbury, N.C., DeSorbo is married to Denmark’s a 4x200m freestyle relay and Simonas Bilis Lauren Suggs. They have one son, Jack, and one daugh- qualified the 50m and 100m freestyle. Held made his- ter, Cate. tory as he helped the United States win a gold medal in 2 2 I VIRGINIA SWIMMING AND DIVING TYLER FENWICK ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH Tyler paring the athletes for the world Championships in 2009. Fenwick joined the UVA coaching staff in His additionally worked to maintain Olympic standards of a August 2017 as the men’s and women’s 2008 Olympic silver medalist and American record holder. associate head coach. Fenwick started his coaching career at Germantown Acad- Fenwick joins the Cavalier programs with emy Aquatic Club in Fort Washington, Pa. He coached the eight years of coaching experience with 2005 Women’s national high school champions. Under three unique gold medal clubs and seven Fenwick’s guidance, the team notched 30 high school all- years coaching a top-25 NCAA division I Americans. He additionally sent swimmers to the Pan Pa- program. cific, Pan American, World Championships and Olympics. 2017-18 FACT BOOK FACT 2017-18 Fenwick joins the program after serving as the associate Additionally, Fenwick was the U.S. head coach for the 2015 head coach for Tennessee for five seasons (2012-2017). and 2017 World University Games and the 2017 UANA Pan Fenwick helped coach four Olympians, in addition to American Championships. Fenwick served on the U.S. na- developing training programs for Pan American Games, tional team coaches list in 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 World Championships and World University Games medal- and 2017-18. ist. Since 2012, Fenwick has had his student-athletes tally over 200 All-America swims, while breaking 36 Tennessee As an athlete, Fenwick was named Kit Award for Outstand- School records. ing performance at the 1999 EAstern Inerscholastic Swim- ming Champinoships. He was a three-year letterwinner for During Fenwick’s tenure, the Volunteer women’s program William & Mary. Fenwick additionally was team captain of maintained a GPA of 3.4 or higher. the Germantown Academy water polo team. Prior to Tennessee, Fenwick coached the men’s national Fenwick holds a bachelor’s degree in English from William team at the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Mission Viejo, Calif., and Mary and a master of science degree in sports man- as a senior coach. Fenwick coached the program from agement from Tennessee. 2009-12, earning a men’s team championships at the 2012 U.S. Open Water Nationals. He saw two athletes earn 2012 FINA World Junior Championships honors, in addition to one U.S. national champion and one U.S. junior national champion. Fenwick had at least one athlete compete in each event at the U.S. Junior Nationals. From 2007-09, Fenwick worked as an assistant coach at the University of Tennessee Aquatics. Fenwick oversaw the training of Christine Magnusson and Davis Tarwater, pre- 3 3 I VIRGINIA SWIMMING AND DIVING JASON GLORIUS HEAD DIVING COACH Jason Glorius, who has guided four Glorius helped elevate the Big Red’s diving program to different Cavalier divers to the NCAA new levels over his four years in Granville, Ohio, aiding Championships, completed his third Denison’s men to the first two national championship season as the Cavaliers’ head diving teams in program history (2011, 2012). coach in 2015-16. In 2013, Glorius mentored Ben Lewis to the NCAA Division 2015-16 was another record year for the III Championship on the 1-meter boards and Gabe Dixon Cavalier diving corps, which saw three to a second-place finish on the 3-meter.