Fairmont State University Women's Swimming

Snively was awarded the American Swimming Coaches Association Certificate of Excellence seven times and was named the WVIAC mens Coach of the Year in 2005. He has coached swimmers to 24 All-American performances, 77 school records, eight National Swimmer of the Week honors and conference Swimmer of the Year recognition seven times. Snively received his bachelors degree from Fairmont State in 1999 and his masters degree in 2000 from West Virginia University. He recently earned a Masters in Business Administration from Fairmont State. In the fall of 2012, Snively was recognized by the Fairmont State Alumni Association as an Outstanding Young Alumnus for his distinguished career as a coach and his service to the Fairmont community. In his 16th season at Fairmont State, Patrick Snively is the longest serving head swimming coach at a single institution in the state of West Virginia. The men's program has achieved All-American status on 19 occasions, Academic All-American status three times, conference Swimmer of the Year awards seven times, and have finished in the top 20 in the nation on four occasions under Snively. In 2007, Snively coached Colebank and Feaster Award winner and 12-time All-American Matej Tomas to a runner-up finish in the 200 butterfly at the NCAA championships. In 2010, Emir Atilgan set a new school record in the 1000 freestyle and achieved an NCAA B standard. In 2014, Pasko Komadina competed in four events at the NCAA Championships, earning honorable mention All-America honors in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:38.83. In addition, David Dent was named the 2014 Colebank Award winner and Ryan Radcliff received the Feaster Award for having the highest GPA among senior athletes. Radcliff also earned Scholar All-America honors from CSCAA for having over a 3.5 GPA and achieving a "B" standard time during the season. In the spring of 2015, Komadina was honored with the Colebank award, honoring the top male senior athlete in the Fairmont State athletic department. Last season, senior Luka Dilas was honored by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as a Scholar All-American, achieving a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher and turning in a "B" time standard. The Falcon womens program has earned Academic All-American honors in 15 of the last 16 years from the CSCAA and has achieved the highest GPA of any Division II institution on two occasions. In 2003, Toni Riley was named NCAA Woman of the Year for the state of West Virginia. In 2009, West Virginia native Cassie Lutz set school records in the 200 butterfly and 400 IM and qualified for the NCAA Championships. Fairmont native Kathryn Saurborn is Snively's most recent athlete to earn All-America honors doing so in the 50 free in 2012. Saurborn was the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Swimmer of the Year and qualified for two other events in the NCAA Championships. As a senior in 2013, Saurborn took home All-America honors three times, earning first team honors in the 50 free and 100 butterfly and honorable mention honors in the 100 free for the second-consecutive year. Active in the community, Snively volunteers with the American Cancer Society as a Marion County leadership council member and Relay for Life support staff member. He created Swim for Life as a fundraiser for FAST and Relay for Life. The program has raised nearly $40,000 in eight years for the Relay for Life fund. He also helped to begin Footwork for CJD (Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease) to raise money to research the disease that took his mothers life in 2007. Snively is also an American Red Cross instructor and has gotten his team involved in community clean up projects. Snively is a member of the College Swim Coaches Association of America, the American Swimming Coaches Association, USA Swimming, the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Committee, and the CSCAA Division II Poll Committee. Snively and his wife Amy reside in Fairmont.