Colorado College Women's Swimming

Walker joined the Colorado College staff after stints with the University of St. Thomas, Macalaster College and Carleton College, as well as with the Northfield Diving Club, where she coached three NCAA All Americans. As a collegiate athlete, she received all-conference recognition in both diving and softball.   Colorado College Alumni Diver, Joseph Shaner, states the team aspect with the Colorado College Swimming and Diving Program is amazing, athletes come back year after year to be part of this great team.   I think Colorado College offers the perfect combination of diving training for the liberal arts student. It is a serious program, with practice that will challenge you and improve your diving, but at the same time it is clearly understood that you are at the college to go to school. Colorado College Alumni Alyssa Gehman.   Walker is a native of Shakopee, Minnesota, where she excelled in diving, softball, basketball and gymnastics. She was inducted, as a member of the inaugural class, into the Shakopee High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.   Walker graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in sociology. She has a distinguished career working for the State of Colorado in the field of criminal justice.  

Pacheco comes to Colorado Springs after serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for three seasons at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. We are thrilled to have Franco join our coaching staff, head coach Anne Goodman James said. He brings outstanding experience in collegiate coaching and proven success in recruiting to selective liberal arts colleges.  He has an outstanding plan for recruiting and we are excited about what he brings to our team.   Pacheco was recently selected as one of six assistant coaches in all divisions to earn the 2015 Jean Freeman Scholarship from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). The scholarship is given annually to three male and three female assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university, and whose leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude, and personal graciousness epitomizes those characteristics reflected by Freeman.   "I am so excited to join the Colorado College family, Pacheco said. There is so much potential here and I am grateful for this spectacular opportunity."     Prior to joining the Colby staff in 2012, Pacheco was an assistant coach for the men and women's swimming programs at Villanova University. During his tenure at Villanova, he specialized in the distance freestyle events while contributing to the team's dry land workouts. Pacheco also headed the Wildcats scouting and statistics efforts and handled the reporting of all results to the BIG EAST Conference. Pacheco coached at the Canadian Olympic Trials and also coached two United States Olympic Trials Qualifiers. Before coaching at Villanova, Pacheco was enlisted in the United States Army and was primarily stationed at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. He received an honorable discharge in August, 2011. As an undergraduate swimmer at The College of Saint Rose (N.Y.), Pacheco was a four-year member of the swim team and a two-year captain for the Golden Knights. During his career Pacheco earned all-conference honors from both the Northeast-10 and the Metropolitan Conference. A 2006 graduate of Saint Rose with a bachelor's degree in public communications and an emphasis in journalism, Pacheco went on to earn a master's degree in education from Saint Joseph's College (Maine) and an M.B.A. from Thomas College.