Purdue University Women's Swimming

Klinge has helped elevate the national profile of the Purdue women's swimming and diving program in his eight years as head coach. He was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading the Boilermakers to historic highs in 2009-10, his second season at Purdue. Diver Casey Matthews' 2013 national championship and 2014 Big Ten title have highlighted the recent seasons for the Boilermakers. She won the Purdue women's first-ever national title and first Big Ten crown since 2009. The Boilermakers have had at least nine NCAA qualifiers each of the last three seasons. Purdue has finished in the top 25 at the national championship meet in six of Klinge's first eight seasons, earning a place in the athletics department's prestigious 25/85 club in the process. It recognizes teams that finish among the top 25 in NCAA competition with an 85 percent (or greater) graduation success rate. The Boilermakers are 46-26 in dual meet action under Klinge, including a 43-19 mark since the start 2009-10. In 2015-16, Allie Davis, Emily Fogle and Nika Karlina Petric all closed out their careers as four-time NCAA Championships qualifiers. Mary Beth Dunnichay, Kaersten Meitz and Fogle teamed up for five All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. Fogle became Purdue's first swimmer to earn full-fledged All-America honors in an event since 2010. The breaststroke record holder was later named Purdue's Female Athlete of the Year, the first swimmer to win the award since 1994. Of the five swimmers in program history to qualify for the NCAA Championships four times, four of them have raced during Klinge's tenure. The Purdue women were recognized by 10 student-athletes (eight swimmers and two divers) at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Davis and Meitz both posted a top-30 finish in an event. The Boilermakers have continued to excel academically as well. Purdue's 3.59 team grade-point average for the 2015 spring semester ranked sixth nationally among NCAA Division I programs. Within Purdue athletics, Klinge's program won the President's Cup twice for having the best team GPA in both the fall and spring semesters of the 2014-15 school year. Individually, Carly Marshall became the first Purdue student of any kind to be a finalist for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to the University of Cambridge in England. Marshall was later selected as Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, joining Lauren Gustafson (2013) as recent members of the program to receive the honor. Michelle Cabassol and MacKenzie Tweardy accounted for 33 team points to help the Boilermakers finish 25th of the 53 scoring teams at the 2014 national championship meet. Purdue has finished among the Top 25 at the NCAA Championships in five of Klinge's first seven years. The Boilermakers were represented by a program-high 10 student-athletes -- seven swimmers and three divers -- at the national championship meet. Allie Smith was selected as the Big Ten's female recipient of the prestigious Wayne Duke Postgraduate Scholarship Award in 2011. She was the second Boilermaker to be selected for the honor, which is awarded to only one male and one female student-athlete from around the Big Ten each year. As a team, the Boilermakers ranked seventh nationally with a 3.51 team GPA during the 2010 fall semester. In 2015, Purdue's 800 free relay team of Rhiannon Sheets, Abby Jagdfeld, Petric and Davis established a new program record at Big Tens and later earned Honorable Mention All-America acclaim at NCAAs with a 12th place finish. Together they became the Boilers' first All-America relay team since 2011. Sheets closed out her career as a four-time NCAA Championships qualifier and a Purdue record holder in the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly. After missing most of the last two seasons due to injury and personal adversity, Fogle returned to the active roster in the fall of 2014 and went on to qualify for NCAAs for the third time. The Purdue record holder in three events was recognized with the N4A Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award in June 2015. Carly Mercer (100 free) and Alex Todd (100 fly) established new program records in 2013-14. Mercer also became the first Boilermaker to win Big Ten Swimmer of the Week three times in the same season. Matthews' national championship in 3-meter diving as one of eight Boilermakers to qualifying for the NCAA Championships highlighted Purdue's 2012-13 season. The diving duo of Cabassol and Matthews accounted for 44 team points at the national championship meet in Indianapolis, helping the Boilers place 19th among the 43 scoring teams. It was Purdue's third-best showing in program history. Matthews was the only women's swimming and diving athlete from the Big Ten to win an NCAA title at the 2013 national championship meet. She was later named the Purdue Female Athlete of the Year. Along with being among the six swimmers to qualify for the NCAA Championships, Gustafson closed out her career with a bevy of academic honors. As one of the most recognized Purdue student-athletes during the 2012-13 school year, she was the recipient of NCAA and Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarships. Graduating with a 3.99 GPA earned Gustafson First Team Academic All-America recognition, the program's first such First Team honoree. In the pool, she broke the program record in the 50 free at the 2013 Big Ten Championships and finished as the runner-up in the 100 free. Gustafson finished her career part of Purdue record-setting teams in all five relay events. In addition to success in the pool, Klinge is adamant that his team live up to stringent academic standards. The Boilermakers have annually been recognized as a Scholar All-American Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Numerous Boilers have also earned individual recognition from the CSCAA. Purdue has had hundreds of Academic All-Big Ten honorees and dozens of Big Ten Distinguished Scholars during Klinge's tenure. The all-time performance lists have undergone massive reconstruction during Klinge's tenure. All 19 individual swimming events as well as all five relays have new record holders since Klinge started prior to the 2008-09 season. The Top 10 lists for every event are populated with names of many recent Boilermakers. Three individual NCAA Championships qualifiers and 16 new school records highlighted the 2011-12 season for Purdue. Lauren Roth and Fogle both made their second appearances at the NCAA Championships, where they were joined by Sheets as a freshman. One day after scoring in the 100 breaststroke, Fogle won the consolation final of the 200 breaststroke at the national championship meet to garner her second Honorable Mention All-America award of the weekend. The Boilermakers' 16 new records established in 2011-12 featured seven individual team benchmarks, seven individual freshman bests and two relay records. Purdue has now set new school records in every swimming event during Klinge's tenure. Nine swimmers also represented the program at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha. Fogle, Roth and Sheets accounted for 10 of the 14 new individual marks. Sheets broke school benchmarks in the 100 and 200 butterfly, times that doubled as new freshman records. Her season-best swims in the 100 and 200 freestyle were also first-year marks. Fogle was part of a record-setting event on all four days of the 2012 Big Ten Championships. She set new records in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and 200 IM. The sophomore posted NCAA automatic qualifying times in both breaststroke events, officially punching her ticket to the NCAA Championships. Nine NCAA Championships qualifiers and five new relay records established at the Big Ten Championships highlighted the 2010-11 season. Lisa Butler, Kara Cook, Caitlin Hamilton, Ariel Martin, Erin Mertz, Lauren Nichols, Allie Smith, Fogle and Gustafson represented the Boilers at the national championship meet in Austin, Texas. Mertz scored from all three boards at NCAAs, highlighted by a career-best third-place showing in the 3-meter competition that earned the senior All-American honors. Joining Mertz as Honorable Mention All-Americans were Cook (platform diving) and Hamilton (1,650 free) as well as the 400 and 800 relay teams. Butler, Martin and Gustafson swam on both scoring relays along with Smith (400) and Fogle (800). Purdue set new records in all five relay events at the Big Ten Championships. Butler, Martin and Gustafson were each part of four of the five new relay records. Roth (three), Fogle (two) and Smith (two) also contributed to multiple record-setting relays. Capped by a program-record nine different All-Americans, which nearly doubled the previous best of five, at the NCAA Championships held in their home pool, the 2009-10 season went down as the one that began the Boilermakers' rise up the national standings. As a freshman, Hamilton took down Purdue records in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle events multiple times each throughout her first collegiate season. She finished second in the 1,650 at the Big Ten Championships in a time of 16:02.61 that obliterated the previous record of 16:26.31 that had stood since 1998. She then went on to finish eighth at the NCAA Championships in 16:02.01 to earn All-America status and record the highest national finish in Purdue history. Both 1,000 splits set a new program standard, as well, and the 500 record was broken twice at the Big Ten Championships. The Boilermakers also had All-American swims from Smith in the 100 backstroke and the 400 and 800 freestyle relays and the 200 medley relay. The 16th-place finish stands as the best in program history, and the nine different All-Americans, as well as the five different scoring events, also rank as program highs. At the Big Ten Championships, the Boilermakers broke 17 program records and five freshman records while recording 94 season-best times during the four-day meet. Purdue also earned five second-place finishes, taking runner-up honors in nearly one-quarter of the 21 contested events. Martin led the charge as she took down the 50 and 200 freestyle records twice, the 100 freestyle record once and swam on record-breaking 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays as well as the 200 medley relay. Freshmen Seraphina Van and Emily McIlrath became the fastest first-year Boilermakers. Van bettered freshman records in the 100 butterfly and 200 breaststroke, while McIlrath took down the 100 breaststroke standard. Klinge's background includes time spent serving his country with the United States Marine Corps in addition to coaching stops at the collegiate, club and high school coaching levels. This unique resume builder helped boost his appeal among the athletics department administrators. Klinge is the seventh head coach in program history and the first male since Fred Kahms was at the helm from 1981 through 1985. He has a vision for success at Purdue, which is, "To establish and ensure an environment where motivated and talented student-athletes strive for excellence in swimming and diving and in the classroom, and work together to consistently challenge for Big Ten and NCAA championships." Klinge, a native of Richmond, Ind., graduated from Purdue in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He returned to his home state after spending five years as an assistant to men's head coach Bill Wadley at Ohio State. Wadley promoted Klinge to associate head coach in May of 2008, shortly after the Buckeyes posted their second straight top-20 showing at the NCAA Championships. The Scarlet and Gray were 12th in 2007 and 16th in 2008. Klinge's last Buckeye squad finished 13th in the national dual-meet rankings and broke a total of 10 school records before sending 11 student-athletes to the NCAA Championships. Senior sprinter Matt Voelker placed 15th in the 50 freestyle to capture honorable-mention All-America honors and was part of three Ohio State relay teams (800 freestyle, 200 medley and 400 medley) that finished in the top 16 to earn honorable-mention All-America accolades. While at Purdue, Klinge qualified for the 1992 United States Olympic Trials and went on to place 15th in the 200 backstroke. The former team captain also earned U.S. Swimming All-America honors in 1991 for placing fifth in the 200 backstroke and was awarded All-Big Ten honors in 1990 and 1994. Klinge left Purdue as its second-fastest swimmer in the 100 and 200 backstroke events and 200 and 400 IM. He also held the Lambert Pool record in the 200 backstroke (1:49.68) and 200 IM (1:51.47) when he concluded his collegiate career. More than 14 years later, Klinge's lifetime-best 1:46.36 in the 200 backstroke still holds up among the five-fastest times in Boilermaker history even though Purdue moved into a much faster and improved facility at the start of this decade. Klinge made an immediate transition into coaching following his senior year, serving as an undergraduate assistant coach to Purdue men's head coach Dan Ross for the 1994-95 season. Klinge joined the Buckeyes after serving as the head coach at both Bozeman High School and Bozeman Barracuda Swim Club in Bozeman, Mont. During his tenure at Bozeman, Klinge led the Hawks to five state championships and coached multiple National Age Group Top 16, Junior National, United States Open and high school All-American swimmers. Klinge is a commissioned officer for the United States Marine Corps. He has received two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals for various outstanding performances. Klinge is married to the former Chris Anderson, who also swam for Purdue. They have three children -- sons, Jack and Matthew, as well as a daughter, Madison.

Soldati was named men's Big Ten Coach of the Year again and men's national Coach of the Year for the fourth time since 2009. Along with being a four-time men's NCAA Diving Coach of the Year, he is a seven-time winner of Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year. He has won the conference award five times with the men and twice with the women. In 2012, Soldati helped coach David Boudia to two medals at the Olympic Games in London. Boudia would win two more medals four years later at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Boudia won gold on 10-meter in 2012, Team USA's first Olympic gold medal in the men's event since Greg Louganis in 1988. Boudia and Nick McCrory teamed up to win Team USA's first Olympic medal (bronze) ever in men's synchronized 10-meter diving. The gold-medal performance earned Boudia USA Diving Athlete of the Year honors, while Soldati was named USA Diving's National Coach of the Year. Soldati guided Boudia to his third Olympic Games in 2016 and they were joined by fellow Boilermaker Steele Johnson this time. The duo claimed Team USA's Olympic bid in synchronized 10-meter and also finished one-two on 10-meter individually to sweep the available Olympic berths. Boudia and Johnson went on to win silver together in Rio, the USA's top individual showing in the event since it was added to the Olympic program in 2000. Boudia also took home bronze individually on 10-meter, becoming the first American man to medal in the event in consecutive Olympics since Louganis (1984-88). Soldati was named the assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team at the 2016 Games. With seven Boilermakers competing, Purdue was represented in the finals of every event in which it had an entry at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. In 2016, Purdue's first divers were also inducted to intercollegiate athletics hall of fame. Carrie (McCambridge) Karkoska and Boudia both excelled under Soldati's tutelage and were honored as Purdue hall of famers in the fall of 2016. At the 2015 NCAA Championships, Soldati guided Johnson (as a freshman) to national titles on 1-meter and platform. Johnson became the first diver since Boudia in 2009 to win NCAA titles on a springboard and the platform in the same year. Boudia and Johnson train together at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center and will represented USA Diving at the FINA World Championships in Russia in the summer of 2015 after winning the 10-meter synchro title at the inaugural USA Diving Synchronized Nationals Championships. In both 2011 and 2015, three Purdue divers qualified for the championship final of platform diving at the NCAA Championships. Jamie Bissett capped his college career with All-America honors on platform in 2015, coupling that award with First Team Academic All-America accolades. The 3-meter champion at Diving Canada's 2015 Winter Nationals became Purdue's first male athlete since quarterback Drew Brees (in 2000) to be a First Team All-American athletically and academically in the same year. When Johnson was named the Purdue Male Athlete of the Year at end of the 2014-15 school year, he became the fifth diver to be honored since 2005. A diver has been among Purdue's Athletes of the Year five times in a seven-year span from 2009 to 2015. Honorable Mention All-America accolades for freshmen Joe Cifelli and Max Showalter highlighted the 2015-16 collegiate season. Together they helped Purdue score at NCAAs for the 21st straight year and joined a list of seven Purdue divers to qualify for the NCAA Championships as freshmen. The Boilermakers were represented by at least one diver at the Men's NCAA Championships for the 12th time in the last 13 years, all but 2012. Purdue has claimed at least one All-America honor in a diving event every year it has had a representative since 2005. Soldati was recognized as one of the finalists for the United States Olympic Committee's 2011 and 2012 National Coach of the Year awards. CaptainU.com named Soldati its National Diving Coach of the Year in 2014. Seven of the nine Boilermakers competing at the 2014 Zone C Championships earned bids to the national championship meets. There were approximately 90 divers competing at the Zone C Championships. Ten percent (nine) were Boilermakers, yet Purdue managed to claim 41 percent (7 of 17) of the NCAA Championships berths available in Zone C. Four men's divers qualified for the first time since sending five to the national championship meet in 2010. Three women's divers qualified for the first time since 2009. At the 2014 NCAA Championships, five Purdue divers earned All-America honors and scored team points. Michelle Cabassol closed out her career with 3-meter All-America acclaim after finishing fourth in the championship final for the second year in a row. Layne Rogers (3-meter), MacKenzie Tweardy (platform), Jamie Bissett (3-meter Honorable Mention) and Nate Cox (platform Honorable Mention) also advanced out of the prelims. Casey Matthews was the 2014 women's Big Ten champion from the 1-meter springboard. She also helped Soldati's divers win nine medals at the USA Diving Winter Nationals in December 2013. Four Purdue divers qualified for the 2013 NCAA Championships, highlighted by Matthews' winning the national title in women's 3-meter diving. She is now a five-time All-American. Bissett, Cabassol and Rogers also took home All-America honors in their first appearances at the NCAA Championships. Boudia was selected the NCAA Diver of the Year by the Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America for the third year in a row in 2011. He finished his career with six NCAA national titles, one shy of the Troy Dumais' all-time record, after winning a pair at each of his three appearances at the national championship meet. In the summer of 2011, Boudia became the first American male since 1986 to medal in the 10-meter platform at the FINA World Championships, winning silver in China. He was also selected as the Jesse Owens Male Big Ten Athlete of the Year, becoming the first diver to win the award and just the second Purdue male student-athlete. A program-record three divers scoring in the platform competition at the NCAA Championships and two more national titles for Boudia highlighted the 2010-11 season. In July 2011, Soldati traveled to China with Boudia to serve as an assistant coach for USA Diving at the World Championships. Among the women in 2011, Erin Mertz scored from all three boards at NCAAs, highlighted by a career-best third-place showing in the 3-meter competition that earned the senior All-American honors. She and fellow senior Kara Cook both garnered Honorable Mention All-American recognition in the platform. At the Big Ten Championships, Boudia swept the three diving events for the second time in his career. He became the first athlete to accomplish that feat twice since platform diving was added to the meet in 1988. Boudia was named Big Ten Diver of the Championships and Diver of the Year for the third consecutive year. He finished his college career with eight Big Ten diving titles. Boudia won 30 of the 31 events he entered during the 2010-11 school year. He was named Big Ten Diver of the Week a conference-record nine times, increasing his career mark of weekly honors to 20. Among Boudia's 30 victories were national titles at the USA Diving Winter Nationals the first week of February. He teamed with Duke's Nick McCrory to win the synchronized platform and also captured the 10-meter platform title in the final competition of the week. Boudia continued his dominance on the boards in 2010, bringing back two Big Ten titles and two more NCAA crowns. His 1-meter victory at the NCAA Championships made him the first diver ever to win at least one national title from each of the three boards. Boudia then defended his 3-meter title with a meet-record score of 494.90. His four career national championship trophies rank ninth on the all-time list, trailing only record-holder Troy Dumais' total of seven and a seven-way tie for second with five. Junior David Colturi added another Big Ten title to the record books as he finished first in the 1-meter. Colturi scored 442.00 points to break the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion record and claim his first conference title. In addition to the titles won, Purdue's depth was clearly evident at both championship meets. At the men's NCAA Championships, four divers earn All-America acclaim, while at the women's national championship meet two more certificates were made out to Purdue divers. At the men's Big Ten Championships, all six divers scored from all three boards to add 219 points to Purdue's team total. On the women's side, the Boilermakers grabbed 105 points, including a 2-3-4 finish in the platform, with only three divers scoring. Only Indiana, which brought seven divers, scored more points in the diving events. Both record books have been completely rewritten under Soldati. All 30 positions on the men's all-time Top 10 list for the three boards are occupied by divers that were coached by Soldati. Soldati believes that success in the collegiate ranks is only the first step for his student-athletes. Not only does Soldati want his divers aspiring to become conference champions and All-Americans, he wants them to see the bigger picture -- the Olympics. And Soldati has the experience to get them there. The Purdue diving program was recognized as a Center of Excellence by USA Diving for 2010. Boudia and Matthews were named to the Olympic Performance Squad, which identified the 20 best American divers to give them all possible advantages leading into the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Matthews earned inclusion to her first international team in February with a fourth-place finish off the platform at the USA Diving Winter National Championships. Boudia, who contested the platform and synchronized platform disciplines at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, added to his international resume during the break from NCAA competition. He teamed with Nick McCrory to take gold in the synchronized platform at the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix before joining Haley Ishimatsu to win the team event at the FINA Diving World Cup, a meet at which Soldati was Team USA's head coach, in Changzhou, China. The latter gold was the first for the U.S. in World Cup competition on Chinese soil since 1985. Boudia then became the first American to top 600 points in a six-dive platform list when he scored 605.40 while winning the event at the AT&T National Diving Championships. Included in that score was a 111.00 total on a 109C that broke the American record for a single dive. The scores bettered records he had set in February at the USA Diving Winter National Championships. At the same championships, Kara Cook finished second in the women's platform with her score of 330.45. Prior to his arrival at Purdue, Soldati worked with Olympic gold-medal coach Kenny Armstrong at the USA Diving National Training Center outside Houston. During his tenure, Soldati worked side-by-side with several Olympians, including Laura Wilkinson, Troy and Justin Dumais, Justin Wilcox, and Kimiko Soldati. As head coach for the Woodlands Diving national team, Soldati guided three divers (J.J. Kinzbach, Harrison Jones and Jessica Livingston) to the finals of the 2004 Olympic Trials and five divers (Kinzbach, Jones, Drew Livingston, Jessica Livingston and Whitney Wielgus) to Senior Nationals. Kinzbach also qualified for the U.S. National Team. Soldati finished the summer taking Kinzbach and Jones to the Junior World Championships. Following his graduation from Indiana University in 1997, Soldati founded Indiana Diving and Youth Development while serving as the Hoosiers' assistant coach and diving events director. Both programs succeeded at the highest levels with his involvement. From June 1997 to January 2000, Soldati's club program advanced six athletes to the U.S. Senior National Diving Championships, plus four finalists and eight athletes to the U.S. Junior National Championships and earned one national championship. At the same time, he was helping his Hoosiers win three consecutive national diving titles from 1998 to 2000. Soldati is married to Kimiko Hirai Soldati, who was a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Diving Team. The couple has six children -- sons, Blake and Isaac, as well as daughters Maiya and Emiko. They welcomed twins Noah (boy) and Rylie (girl) to the family in January 2014.

Beine completed her fifth season as an assistant for Purdue women's swimming and diving in 2015-16. Beine joined the Boilermakers in June 2011. "Erica brings a great deal of knowledge, experience, and excitement to our program," Purdue head coach John Klinge says. "We are very fortunate to have her as part of Purdue Swimming and Diving." Purdue has finished among the top 25 at the NCAA Championships in three of Beine's first five seasons. At least nine Boilermakers have qualified for the national championship meet each of the last three years. That included seven swimmers in 2014 and 2015. Allie Davis, Emily Fogle, Nika Karlina Petric and Rhiannon Sheets were all four-time NCAAs qualifiers. Davis, Petric and Sheets were a big reason why Purdue's 800 free relay team qualified four years in a row. But Sheets was also a four-time individual qualifier and Fogle capped her career in 2016 as an All-American in the 100 and 200 breaststroke. She qualified for the championship final of the 100 breast to become the Boilermakers' first swimmer to earn full-fledged All-America honors since 2010. Fogle was later named the Purdue Female Athlete of the Year, the first swimmer to claim the prestigious honor since 1994. Seven new program records were established during the 2015-16 season and the Purdue women were represented by eight swimmers at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials that summer. Purdue's 800 free relay team of Sheets, Abby Jagdfeld, Petric and Davis established a new program record at the 2015 Big Ten Championships and later earned Honorable Mention All-America acclaim at NCAAs with a 12th place finish. Together they became the Boilers' first All-America relay team since 2011. Sheets headlined a large senior class that helped Purdue compile a 3.59 team GPA during the 2015 spring semester, ranking sixth nationally. Additionally, Kaersten Meitz, Davis and Petric gave the Boilers an accomplished distance crew that excelled at Big Tens, qualified for NCAAs and had strong showings at prestigious long course meets in the summer of 2015. Davis had three individual top-10 finishes at USA Swimming's Phillips 66 Nationals. Petric represented Slovenia at the World University Games in South Korea. During the college season, Meitz broke the Purdue record in the 500 free and already ranks second in the 1000 and 1650. The weekend of Nov. 21-23, 2015, Purdue won the five-team Ohio State Invitational after 26 Boilermakers scored in at least one individual event. It marked the first time Purdue won a multi-day invitational meet on the road since November 2004 at North Carolina. Carly Mercer established a new program record in the 100 free, became the first Boilermaker to win Big Ten Swimmer of the Week honors three times in one season and qualified for the NCAA Championships as an individual. Alex Todd and Kylie Vogel both broke the program record in the 100 fly at the 2014 Big Ten Championships. Meagan Lim (100 fly) and Hannah Manger (100 back) established new freshman benchmarks during their inaugural college seasons. Swimmers Lauren Gustafson, Lauren Nichols, Davis, Mercer, Petric and Sheets were among the eight Boilermakers to qualify for the 2013 NCAA Championships under Beine's guidance. Gustafson (50 and 100 free) and Sheets (100 & 200 fly, 200 IM) raced in individual events and joined forces with their teammates in the three freestyle relay events. Gustafson, Nichols and Sheets went back to the national championship meet for the second time in their Purdue careers. Davis and Petric qualified for the NCAA Championships as freshmen. The Boilermakers won the seven-team 2013 Purdue Invitational the weekend before Thanksgiving. A number of fast times emerged from the weekend, highlighted by Emily Fogle breaking her own program record in the 100 breaststroke. The 2012-13 recruiting class that Beine helped sign up was ranked 11th nationally by CollegeSwimming.com. Three individual NCAA Championships qualifiers and 16 new school records highlighted the 2011-12 season for Purdue. Nine swimmers also represented the Boilers at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Lauren Roth and Fogle both made their second appearances at the NCAA Championships, where they were joined by Sheets as a freshman. One day after scoring in the 100 breaststroke, Fogle won the consolation final of the 200 breaststroke at the national championship meet to garner her second Honorable Mention All-America award of the weekend. Beine was an assistant coach for both the men's and women's teams at Maryland during the 2010-11 season after spending two years as the head coach of both the men and women at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was named the 2010 Horizon League Coach of the Year after leading the UWM men to their first conference title in a decade. The women's team was also the runner-up at the 2010 Horizon League Championships. Beine made the transition from assistant to head coach at Milwaukee, serving two years as an assistant prior to becoming the leader of the two programs. She also worked one year as a graduate assistant at Ball State while earning a master's degree in sports administration. During Beine's tenure as the head coach at Milwaukee, the Panthers rewrote their record books. Sixty-five total records were eclipsed 77 different times in her two years. She helped coach 13 individual league champions. At Maryland, she coached Atlantic Coast Conference champions in the 50 free and 100 fly on the women's side. The Terrapins had four swimmers qualify for the NCAA Championships, earning All-America and Honorable Mention All-America honors en route to finishing 22nd with 42 team points. The 200 free relay team placed eighth nationally. A five-time All-American and four-time NCAA qualifier during her college career at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Beine spent one year as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater after closing out her career. She was an eight-time All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honoree, swimming on four conference champion relay teams. She helped lead the Pointers to the 2001 WIAC title. Beine earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and coaching from UWSP. She is a native of Oshkosh, Wis., and is married to Dave Beine. The couple has two young sons, Simon and Mitchell.

Renie completed her 14th year as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Purdue program in 2010-11. In the summer of 2011, she made the transition to supervisor of swimming and diving operations for both the men's and women's teams. The 2016-17 season marks her sixth year in a that role. As the main recruiter for the Purdue women's program, Renie was responsible for all aspects of both on- and off-campus recruiting. Since joining the Purdue staff, Renie has used her expertise, personal example and excellent recruiting skills to help take Purdue from the lower half of the Big Ten Conference to placing among the top-six teams eight out of the past nine years, including a program-best-tying fourth-place finish in 2010 that earned head coach John Klinge the conference's Coach of the Year award. Nine NCAA Championships qualifiers and five new relay records established at the Big Ten Championships highlighted the 2010-11 season. The nine NCAA qualifiers -- seven swimmers and two divers -- matched a program record established in 2010. Lisa Butler, Kara Cook, Emily Fogle, Lauren Gustafson, Caitlin Hamilton, Ariel Martin, Erin Mertz, Lauren Nichols and Allie Smith represented the Boilers at the national championship meet in Austin, Texas. Joining divers Erin Mertz and Kara Cook as Honorable Mention All-Americans were Hamilton (1,650 free) as well as the 400 and 800 relay teams. Butler, Martin and Gustafson swam on both scoring relays along with Smith (400) and Fogle (800). Purdue scored 36 points at the NCAA Championships to place 25th nationally. Purdue set new records in all five relay events at the Big Ten Championships. Individually, new program records were established in seven events at the Big Ten Championships. Martin (100 & 200 free), Cook (platform diving), Fogle (200 breast), Hamilton (500 free), Mertz (3-meter diving) and Smith (100 back) all set a new benchmark in Purdue history. Fogle's time in the 100 breast was also a freshman record. Freshman Caitlin Hamilton took down Purdue records in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle events multiple times each throughout her first collegiate season. She finished second in the 1,650 at the Big Ten Championships in a time of 16:02.61 that obliterated the previous record of 16:26.31 that had stood since 1998. She then went on to finish eighth at the NCAA Championships in 16:02.01 to earn All-America status and record the highest national finish in Purdue history. Both 1,000 splits set a new program standard, as well, and the 500 record was broken twice at the Big Ten Championships. The Boilermakers also had All-American swims from Allie Smith in the 100 backstroke and the 400 and 800 freestyle relays and the 200 medley relay. The 16th-place finish stands as the best in program history, and the nine different All-Americans, as well as the five different scoring events, also rank as program highs. Renie's recruits have proven to be among the best in Purdue history. The all-time performance lists for all 19 events have been completely rewritten in the past 13 seasons. Only 13 of the 95 names that collectively make up the top-five fastest swimmers in each event were placed there before Renie joined the coaching staff, including her standing in fifth in the 200 butterfly, and she has been on staff and personally coached each and every school record holder. Since her arrival to Purdue's coaching staff in 1997, Renie has coached two Big Ten champions and guided 18 different student-athletes to either All-America or honorable-mention All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. Renie's most consistent performers at the national meet were Lisa Dolansky, Patricia Finnerty and Lindsay Lange, each of whom qualified for three straight meets from 2001-03. Together on both medley relays and the 200 freestyle relay, these three competitors combined for 15 honorable-mention All-America citations. Kim Paradeise shared in their relay success in 2002 and 2003, earning four honorable-mention All-America certificates on her own. Gyongyver Lakos was part of the 400 medley relay team that also placed among the top 16 at the national championship meet in 2001. Lakos and Theekshana Ratnasekera also went on to represent their countries at the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney, Australia. Lakos competed for her home country of Hungary, and Ratnasekera was part of Sri Lanka's delegation to the Games. Renie, formerly Darlene Warta, was an outstanding swimmer and student-athlete at Purdue from 1986-90. A two-time team captain, Renie became Purdue's first female individual to be selected as an All-American after she placed fifth in the 200-yard butterfly at the 1989 NCAA Championships. In 1990, Renie earned All-America honors again in the 200 butterfly and honorable-mention recognition as a member of the 400 medley relay team. Renie also captured two Big Ten titles by winning the conference's 200 butterfly race in 1988 and 1990. She left Purdue as the school-record holder in the 200 butterfly. Her personal-best clocking of 1:59.27 still ranks her as the third-fastest in Purdue history in that event. Along with teammate Jill Groff, who still stands as the fourth-fastest 1,650 freestyle swimmer in program history, Renie ranks as the longest-tenured Boilermaker on any of the all-time top-five lists. She was a Senior Nationals consolation champion, a Junior Nationals qualifier, a four-time NCAA qualifier and the first woman in Purdue history to score individually at the NCAA Championships. She was named Purdue's Outstanding Senior Athlete by Mortar Board and the John Purdue Club's Chicago Athlete of the Year her senior year. By the time she finished her illustrious career, she held school records in the 100 and 200 butterfly, 800 freestyle and 400 medley relays. A native of Chicago, Renie and her husband, Jeff, live in Lafayette. Jeff, also a Purdue swimming alumnus, was a member of the 1986-87 Boilermaker squad under current head coach Dan Ross. The couple has one daughter, Jessica, and two sons, Jake and Joshua.

Bertsch begins his fifth year as part of the video staff at Purdue. Before taking over as the diving technical and administrative coordinator in June 2015, he spent three seasons as the video coordinator for the Purdue women's basketball program. He graduated from Purdue in May 2012 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. Bertsch's duties include general administrative responsibilities, running the scoring program during diving competitions and assisting in anyway needed to help the diving teams run smoothly. Bertsch's responsibilities with women's basketball included capturing and breaking down game and practice video for scouting purposes and for player and team development, coordinating film exchange with opponents, updating and managing the women's basketball video server, creating motivational and highlight videos and assisting with the graphic design of mailings and presentations. Bertsch filled several roles in his time with the Boilermakers, serving as a women's basketball manager and assisting with video while a manager. Prior to that, Bertsch spent a year as a member of the Ready, Intense Practice (RIP) Squad, a group of Purdue male students who serve as practice players for the women's basketball team. The Matthews, Ind., native played varsity basketball and served as an athletic trainer at Eastbrook High School in Marion, Ind. More recently, he coached elementary school boys' basketball for the Frontier School Corporation. He is married to former Purdue basketball player Brittany Rayburn.