Monmouth University Women's Swimming

Monmouth University is proud to announce the appointment of Hayley Masi as its new head swim coach, an accomplished coach with extensive experience in coaching high-level athletes. Masi joins Monmouth from the University of Connecticut, where she served as assistant swim coach since 2021. During her time with the Huskies, she helped drive remarkable progress—crafting season-long and individualized training plans, leading recruitment, and contributing to the program’s recognition as the 2023–24 Big East Coaching Staff of the Year. Under her guidance, the Huskies earned 20 team wins and a .690 winning percentage.    Before her time at UConn, Masi made an impact at Fordham University. As an assistant coach, she helped guide the team to a second-place finish at the 2020 Atlantic 10 Championships and played a critical role in recruiting the program’s first NCAA qualifier in over 15 years. Her leadership journey also includes serving as head swim coach and aquatics director at Maine Maritime Academy. There, Masi led the program to its first-ever team victory and recruited a standout class of 13 incoming athletes—laying a foundation for lasting success. Beyond collegiate swimming, Masi has dedicated herself to developing young athletes and promoting water safety through her work with the Monmouth County Junior Lifeguards and Navy Swim Camps. She brings not only a competitive mindset, but a dedication for mentorship and community engagement. A former standout athlete herself, Masi earned her bachelor’s degree in Public Health with a minor in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018, where she served as senior captain of the UMass Swim and Dive Team. She is also a two-time national champion in lifeguard rescue races   Currently pursuing her master’s degree at the University of West Virginia with expected completion in 2026, Masi holds multiple certifications, including CPR, First Aid, Lifeguard Instruction, and ASCA Levels I & II.  

Following its first season in decades, the reintroduced Monmouth swimming program announced the addition of Steve Levine as an assistant coach in August of 2016. Levine was a member of Monmouth’s swim and water polo programs from 1979-1983.  The 2022-23 season will be Levine's seventh year as an assistant coach under Matt Nunnally. During Monmouth's time in the MAAC, the Hawks have made continued improvement at the league championship meets. In 2022, both teams improved their conference standings and earned their highest ever finishes at the championships. The men's team placed fifth for the second time with 383 points, eight points better than 2020, while the women's team took fifth overall with 442.5 points, nearly 70 points more than two years prior. Monmouth won a program record eight individual gold medals and had a number of individual standouts at the 2022 MAAC Championships Callan Smith was named Most Outstanding Swimmer, while Camryn McHugh and Georgia Watkins shared Co-Most Outstanding Swimmer honors. Watkins also took home the MAAC Rookie of the Meet award after winning the 500 Free, 1650 Free and 200 Fly. McHugh won gold in the 100 Fly, 100 Back and 200 Back and Callan Smith took the 100 Back and 200 Back gold medals. The Hawks also had one relay champion in the women's 200-yard medley relay. In 2020, the men finished fifth in the conference and the women sixth. Monmouth had a record five individual MAAC Champions in 2020. Callan Smith won two events, and Blake Reynolds, Tahlia Botha and Camryn McHugh each secured gold medals for the Hawks. Botha was also named the MAAC Swimming Rookie of the Meet. In 2018-19, the men finished sixth in the conference and the women seventh. Levine helped mentor a pair of MAAC Champions as freshmen Callan Smith and Camryn McHugh each became the first individual MAAC Champions in Monmouth history. Smith the MAAC Swimming Rookie of the Meet won the 500-yard freestyle, while McHugh took gold in the 200-yard backstroke. Prior to his return to Monmouth, Levine brought more than 15 years of age group coaching experience to the program, where he mentored athletes to achieve success in and out of the pool.  Levine resides in nearby Ocean, NJ with his wife Jan and has three grown children, Jessica, Courtney and Josh.