Centre College Women's Swimming

Brownley took over the Centre College swim team in 2001-02 after coaching at Campbellsville University for eight years, where he built an NAIA national powerhouse. In his eight years coaching at Campbellsville he had 4 individual national champions, two Olympic qualifiers, 54 all-Americans, 42 honorable mention all- Americans, and his teams finished as high as 3rd in the country. He has also been conference coach of the year four times and National coach of the year in 1998. To add to his accomplishments he has been named coach of the year four by the SCAC conference and has coached fifteen All-Americans while at Centre. "One of the things that attracted me to Centre was the strong tradition for both academics as well as athletics. I will work hard recruiting the right student athletes that will meet our need both in the classroom and the pool. Under Brownley Centre has received national recognition for both teams being ranked in the top 25 on a yearly basis. Centre has had an athlete at the national championships every year since 2004. The Centre swim team has always had a strong tradition of academic excellence routinely maintaining above a 3.1 team GPA earning College swim coaches association Academic All American honors for the past two years. Coach Brownley is a graduate of the University of Louisville, receiving his BS in Education with an emphasis in Sports Administration. Dean is married and has three children. He and wife Jamie have two sons, Heath and Hogan and one daughter Regan.

Maggard joined the Centre swimming and diving coaching staff in the fall of 2015. A native of Paris, Ky., Maggard is one of the most decorated female swimmers in program history for the Colonels. She was a four-time Honorable Mention All-American during her four years at Centre, twice in 2011, in the 50-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke, and twice more as a part of the 2009 200-yard medley relay and 2012 800-yard freestyle relay squads. Maggard owns school records in both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke, and at the time of her graduation, she was the highest scoring swimmer in Centre history with 1,743 points. Maggard has served as head swim coach for The Club at Spindletop Hall since 2014 and also served a stint as head swim coach at Danville Country Club in 2012. A double major in English and Spanish at Centre, Maggard also taught Spanish at Lexington Catholic High School while also serving as assistant swim coach from 2013-14.