Brian Schrader Joins Ohio State Swimming Staff

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Director of swimming and diving Invoice Dorenkott introduced Friday the hiring of Brian Schrader to the Ohio State teaching employees. Schrader joins the Buckeyes as an assistant coach, bringing with him greater than 30 years of teaching expertise to the Ohio State deck.

“Brian’s breadth and depth of teaching expertise from membership, NCAA, worldwide {and professional} ranges to the ISL is unsurpassed within the collegiate panorama,” Dorenkott mentioned. “We’re lucky to name Brian a Buckeye. Our younger women and men would be the beneficiaries of Brian’s expertise and keenness for delivering an unimaginable student-athlete expertise.”

Schrader has coached at nearly each stage of the game, together with his final NCAA teaching cease being at Iowa the place he served because the director of sports activities efficiency and males’s recruiting coordinator. Most just lately, he was the pinnacle coach of Florida Aquatics Swimming & Coaching (FAST) following a season because the lead assistant of the 2020 Worldwide Swimming League Champion Cali Condors.

“I couldn’t be extra excited to be teaching at Ohio State,” Schrader mentioned. “There are such a lot of issues to be enthusiastic about, together with the good program management, excessive efficiency with USA Nationwide Groups and worldwide excellence, an important educational establishment, successful championships, the Massive Ten Convention, the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion and the assist system that’s Ohio State Athletics. I’m excited to work with an impressive employees and elite athletes.”

In two seasons at Iowa, Schrader coached six NCAA qualifiers in seven occasions and 4 CSCAA All-People. The 2019-20 season was a record-breaking 12 months for the Hawkeyes, setting 12 program data with 11 student-athletes incomes Massive Ten weekly awards. Schrader guided Hannah Burvill to a bronze medal end on the 2020 Massive Ten Championships and the ladies’s workforce to a tenth place end and a program-best 430 factors below the brand new scoring format. He additionally coached the lads’s program to its highest Massive Ten Championship end since 2012 with a sixth-place outcome. Total, this system broke 18 faculty data whereas he was at Iowa.

Previous to his cease in Iowa Metropolis, Schrader spent 13 years as the pinnacle coach on the College of Denver the place he developed the workforce into the nation’s pre-eminent Mid-Main program The 14-time convention coach of the 12 months led the Pioneers to 17 convention championships (9 males’s and eight girls’s). Throughout his tenure, Denver student-athletes gained 21 Convention Championship Swimmer of the Yr honors and this system had 12 Swimmer of the Yr honors within the Summit League, 9 Newcomer of the Yr honors and 7 Convention Championship Diver of the Yr awards. From 2016-19, Denver gained all however one swimming occasion on the Summit League Championships.

Schrader’s Denver program certified student-athletes for the NCAA Championship meet in 10 of his 13 seasons with 24 incomes All-America honors. Along with success on the NCAA stage, student-athletes coached by Schrader competed on the Olympics, World Championships, Pan American Video games and World College Video games.

His stint at Denver got here after 5 seasons as an assistant coach on the College of Georgia (2001-06) and a season as an assistant for Florida and Iowa.

His completed teaching profession started as a graduate assistant at Texas in 1991 and 1992 the place he helped the Longhorns to the 1991 nationwide title. From 1995-99, Schrader was USA Swimming’s Nationwide Group Coordinator. He served as a Group USA employees member on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, 1998 World Championships in Australia, 2001 World Championships in Japan and the 2013 Pan-American Video games within the Dominican Republic.

“Our program has had the great fortune of figuring out, creating and creating alternatives to develop high-level coaches since combining this system 5 years in the past,” Dorenkott mentioned. “I’m very pleased with our file of advancing coach’s profession ambitions by way of Ohio State swimming and diving.”

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