Globally renowned Georgia swim coach Jack Bauerle says ‘It’s time,’ announces retirement

ATHENS — Georgia teaching legend Jack Bauerle mentioned on Wednesday “It’s time” for him to resign his submit because the Bulldogs’ swimming and diving head coach.

UGA athletic director Josh Brooks, now on the verge of what’s going to be a sixth teaching change in lower than two years since he took over, referred to as it a “bittersweet” second.

“Jack has been the inspiration of the unparalleled success of our males’s and girls’s swimming and diving program for half a century,” Brooks mentioned in a launch.

“Whereas we’ll miss him on the pool deck, we all know that Jack will at all times be part of our athletics household, and I stay up for working with him in numerous capacities as an concerned alumnus. We want him the easiest on this subsequent part of his life.”

Reality is, Bauerle has been probably the most influential figures within the UGA athletic division for years, to the extent the previous Staff USA Olympic swim coach was as soon as thought-about a possible candidate for the athletic director chair, himself.

However the 70-year-old Bauerle, who was employed by Georgia soccer teaching legend and former AD Vince Dooley in 1979, says he is able to flip his consideration elsewhere.

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“I’m not but certain of what I’m going to be doing instantly, however I’ll be doing one thing,” Bauerle mentioned within the college launch. “Once I left Philadelphia for Athens in 1970, I fell in love with Georgia, however I may have by no means predicted the great fortune I’d encounter and the fantastic individuals I’d meet.

“I’ll miss being on the deck every single day, however I’m without end happy with every thing we have now achieved on the College of Georgia.”

Bauerle’s 43 years with the Bulldogs made him the SEC’s longest lively tenured coach previous to his retirement.

The College of Georgia ready an intensive launch relating to Bauerle’s nice achievements, chronicling a legendary profession that noticed Georgia win seven NCAA championships and 12 SEC championships with the Woman Bulldogs swimmers.

Bauerle was a two-time SEC Coach of the Yr in males’s swimming, posting 19 High 10 crew finishes whereas teaching 22 NCAA Championship particular person winners.

The Georgia males’s crew completed eighth at the latest NCAA Championships and the ladies’s crew was fifteenth.

Bauerle’s excessive achievements

Georgia Girls (1979-Current)

• 7 NCAA Championships (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2013, 2014, 2016)

• 8 NCAA runner-up finishes (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015)• 29 top-10 nationwide finishes, together with 21 within the high 5

• 12 SEC Championships (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

 • 7-Time NCAA Coach of the Yr (1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016)

• 16-Time SEC Coach of the Yr (1981, 1986, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016)• 78 NCAA Championship winners (53 people, 25 relays)

• 181 All-People, incomes 886 First Staff and 494 Second Staff citations

• 179 SEC champions (129 people and 50 relays)• Profession document of 342-42-2 (winningest lively girls’s and mixed coach)• 3 NCAA Girl of the Yr honorees

• 29 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients

• 103 straight twin/tri-meet wins at Gabrielsen Natatorium (NCAA S&D document) 

Georgia Males (1983-Current)

• 2-Time SEC Coach of the Yr (1992, 1997)

• 22 NCAA Championship particular person winners

• 19 top-10 nationwide finishes• 123 All-People, incomes 262 First Staff and 474 Second Staff citations

• 88 SEC particular person champions

• Profession document of 253-97-2 (winningest lively mixed coach)

• 10 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients 

Nationwide / Worldwide

• U.S. Girls’s Head Coach for the 2008 Olympics

• U.S. Assistant Coach for the 2000 (girls), 2016 (males), and 2020 (males) Olympics

• Private Coach for the 2004 and 2012 Olympics

• U.S. Head Coach for the 2003, 2005 and 2011 World Championships• U.S. Assistant Coach for the 2001, 2007, 2017, and 2019 World Championships

• U.S. Head Coach for the 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2015 Duel In The Pool

• Pan Pacific Video games, World College Video games, U.S. Nationwide Staff Camp, Elite Distance Camp and U.S. Olympic Pageant teaching appointments 

MISCELLANEOUS

• Inducted into the State of Georgia, Metropolis of Athens, State of Georgia Aquatics, and Montgomery County (Pa.) Coaches’ halls of fame

• 2012 recipient of the Invoice Hartman Award (given yearly to a former UGA student-athlete primarily based on 20 years {of professional} excellence)

• 3 NCAA Girl of the Yr Award winners — the primary college with a number of winners• 1998 recipient of the CSCAA Nationwide Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy

• 2008 recipient of the Billy Hudson Distinguished Citizen Award for group service• Chosen for Sphinx Membership, Blue Key Society, the Gridiron Society and Phi Kappa Phi

Jack Bauerle full assertion

It’s time.

It’s time for me, for my household, and for my crew.

First, I need to thank my spouse Leigh Ann, and my sons John, Magill, and Duke for his or her dedication and sacrifice through the years. Leigh Ann has not solely been an enormous supply of help, however my best motivator. The game of swimming runs year-round and could be all-consuming at occasions, however they’ve always been understanding and supportive.

Thanks to our president Jere Morehead, our athletic director Josh Brooks, and our sport facilitator Darrice Griffin for his or her help. President Morehead and Darrice have been important in serving to us navigate these previous few years, and with Josh, one in every of my few regrets is that I solely want we had extra time to work collectively. I additionally need to share my gratitude to Vince Dooley and Liz Murphey for taking an opportunity on me in 1979 and entrusting me with this program. Working for and figuring out Coach Dooley has been probably the most fulfilling experiences of my life, and I cherish our friendship.

Thanks to the student-athletes for every thing they’ve given me through the years. They’ve really motivated me as a lot I’ve motivated them. Throughout my time, we have now had the privilege of teaching 87 Olympians from 20 completely different nations, bringing house 40 medals within the course of. Final 12 months in Tokyo was one other main success for our program. Along with our Olympic success, 62 completely different athletes have received 175 NCAA championships, with a whole bunch of All-America honors. I’ve had so many nice youngsters, and I miss so a lot of them every single day.

However our accomplishments haven’t solely come within the water, however within the classroom as properly. Over 43 seasons, our program has produced three NCAA Girl of the Yr winners and 39 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients, greater than most athletic departments throughout the nation. These statistics are those that I’m proudest of.

Thanks to the coaches I’ve had the pleasure of working with over all these years. I’ll miss the dialog, humor, and banter on the deck at 5:30 a.m. We positively solved a number of issues earlier than the world wakened each morning, and I’m grateful for his or her dedication and help. I particularly need to thank Harvey Humphries for serving at my aspect for 39 years. I’m excited to see the teaching careers of my athletes unfold, each right here at Georgia and all through the swimming world.

Moreover, particular due to the colleagues and mentors who’ve helped me change into a greater coach throughout my profession. I particularly need to thank Bob Bowman, Frank Busch, Eddie Reese, Dick Shoulberg, and Jon Urbanchek for his or her friendship and steering.

Lastly, thanks to the numerous members of our help workers who’ve given their time and skills towards making our program the very best one potential. Particularly, I need to thank the staff of the Ramsey Middle for sustaining a world-class facility for our athletes and our college.

I’m not but certain of what I’m going to be doing instantly, however I’ll be doing one thing. Once I left Philadelphia for Athens in 1970, I fell in love with Georgia, however I may have by no means predicted the great fortune I’d encounter and the fantastic individuals I’d meet. I’ll miss being on the deck every single day, however I’m without end happy with every thing we have now achieved on the College of Georgia.

One on One with Jack Bauerle from 2021