Jack Bauerle, Georgia Bulldogs swimming coach, retiring from UGA

Legendary Georgia swimming coach Jack Bauerle is strolling away from the pool deck after 43 seasons.

The varsity is asserting Wednesday afternoon that Bauerle is retiring after seven NCAA championships and 12 SEC titles with the ladies’s crew and an extended listing of Olympians on each the ladies’s and males’s facet.

Bauerle, 70, was named SEC coach of the 12 months 18 instances. He was the SEC’s longest energetic tenured coach. He coached the Bulldog girls since 1979 and the lads since 1983.

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Whereas Bauerle coached each the ladies and men’s swimming and diving packages, the college could have separate head coaches beginning subsequent season, in response to a supply. Each are former Georgia swimmers.

Affiliate head coach Stephanie Williams Moreno is predicted to be named as girls’s head coach. She’s been on workers underneath Bauerle for 10 seasons and is a former Georgia All-American who was inducted into the Circle of Honor in 2017. The 2-time SEC champion within the 200 freestyle is a Pennsylvania native who was beforehand an assistant at Ohio State and Missouri.

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The brand new males’s coach is predicted to be Neil Versfeld, a South African native who has been an affiliate head coach the final three seasons. He gained the NCAA 200-yeard breaststroke for Georgia in 2009 and gained a pair of SEC breaststroke ttitles. He was an assistant at Georgia Tech for 4 seasons and swam for South Africa within the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Beneath Bauerle, the Georgia girls gained the NCAA girls’s nationwide title in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2013, 2014 and 2016.

The Georgia girls completed fifteenth this season and the lads have been eighth.

Bauerle got here from his hometown of Philadelphia to swim at Georgia the place he was a crew captain.

Bauerle was a coach on the U.S. Olympic crew for the fourth time final summer time in Tokyo and served as head coach for the ladies’s crew in 2008.

“If there’s a Mount Rushmore of coaches, I’m just about going to place Jack on there as a result of he’s been that sort of coach through the years,” NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, advised the Banner-Herald final 12 months.