San Jose State University Women's Swimming

Hopkins is in his ninth season as the head coach of the San Jose State University women's swimming and diving program. He was named to the post full-time in April, 2006, after serving the 2005-06 season as the interim head coach. Under Hopkins' leadership, the Spartans enjoyed several of its best seasons ever. In 2012-13, Hopkins lead the Spartans to their second conference win in a row and secured his 69th win as San Jose State's head coach and finished the season with a dual meet record of 9-1, improving his career record to 69-25-1. Hopkins was named Swimming Coach of the year for his second year in a row. In 2011-12 team became the first to win a conference championship in school history. Individually, Hopkins was named the Wetsern Athletic Conference women's swimming Coach of the Year and Marisa DeWames was named the Athlete of the Year. DeWames and four other Spartans went on to compete in the 2012 U.S. Olympics team time trials in Omaha. In 2008-09, Hopkins directed the Spartans to a best-ever dual record of 16-1 thanks to an incredible 16-meet win streak following an opening loss at perennial national power Stanford, which included San Jose State's first win over Western Athletic Conference foe Nevada in 23 years. The Spartans also posted a program-best runner-up finish at the annual Nike Cup in November, and matched its highest placement of fourth at the WAC Championship in San Antonio, Texas, in March, when Spartan swimmers broke 17 school standards in four days. A top-notch recruiting class by Hopkins and his staff netted the program's first WAC Freshman of the Year in two-time conference champion Heather Denman, who was previously named the Nike Cup Most Outstanding Female Swimmer. That year, the Spartans totaled 26 school marks in swimming, eight individual NCAA 'B' cuts, the first relay NCAA 'B' qualifier in program history, seven first-team All-WAC and 21 second-team All-WAC performances, 15 WAC medals (2 gold, 10 silver, 3 bronze), seven WAC Swimmers of the Week, six WAC Divers of the Week, two CSCAA Scholar All-America honorable mention selections and 12 Academic All-WAC honorees. Hopkins' 2007-08 team rallied to finish fourth on the final day of the Western Athletic Conference Championship, matching its program-best placement from the two previous years since his arrival. Among the Spartans' 19 medals were 10 golds, with 11 first-team All-WAC honors among a total of 33 all-conference distinctions, all program highs. Senior captain Brie Marhenke starred at the event for the second time, posting her second sweep of the sprint freestyle events while helping two relays to first-place finishes, participating in a trio of school-record swims and posting four NCAA `B' cuts. She and Hopkins made a return trip to the NCAA Championships. Four straight victories allowed the Spartans to conclude the season with an 8-4 dual meet record, including a 3-1 mark against WAC foes and a first-ever win at the University of the Pacific in dramatic fashion by a single point on the meet's final relay. In 2007-08, San Jose State made its first appearance in the CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Power Ranking at No. 22. Hopkins also had two of his former swimmers, Marhenke and Ashley Vrieze, qualify for the 2008 USA Olympic Team Trials in the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke, respectively. Fourteen Spartans picked up Academic All-WAC honors. A total of four school standards fell. The 2006-07 Spartans wound up with three medals, three first-team and seven second-team All-WAC honorees, three school records, one NCAA `B' cut and two USA Swimming National Championships qualifiers while placing fourth at the conference meet. For the season, school records were broken five times, all by Vrieze in the three backstroke distances. Hopkins guided Vrieze to become the first Spartan swimmer in recent history to record points at a USA Swimming national championship event in New York in the spring. San Jose State also sent a diver to the NCAA Diving Zone E Meet in Oklahoma City, Okla. Twelve Spartans garnered Academic All-WAC distinction, while Vrieze was honored with an Associated Students 55 Award. In 2005-06, Hopkins' squad posted a winning record of 6-5-1 during the dual meet season. In addition to a fourth-place finish at the WAC Championship, San Jose State placed fourth at the annual Speedo Cup to mark its best showing there. Hopkins produced a Spartan qualifier for the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2000 in Marhenke. The sprint freestyle specialist was the first Spartan individual WAC champion in a swimming event with a pair of gold medals in the 50 and 100 freestyle, while also anchoring the first-place 200 freestyle relay, the first winning San Jose State relay at a conference championship. The team totaled 15 medals, seven first-team and 22 second-team All-WAC performances, 10 school-record swims, one NCAA `A' cut, three `B' cuts and an all-time high of 14 Academic All-WAC honorees. All 23 student-athletes achieved lifetime-best times. Hopkins came to San Jose State from the De Anza Cupertino Aquatics (DACA) club program, where he had served as the associate director and associate head coach since 2000. His duties included managing day-to-day operations of the corporation, as well as directing the DACA Saratoga High School programs. He was involved in daily coaching of national-level swimmers of high school and college ages. Hopkins has also served as an assistant coach at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. Previously, Hopkins was the head coach and chief operating officer of the Bakersfield Swim Club between 1997-2000. He was an assistant coach of the men's swim team at his alma mater, Cal State Bakersfield, from 1995-97. In the 1995-96 season, Hopkins helped guide the Roadrunners to NCAA Division II national runners-up distinction. He was selected by USA Swimming in 1999 to be a staff coach of the girl's National Select Camp. Hopkins has coached swimmers to dozens of world rankings over the years, as well as coaching four athletes onto the USA Swimming national team, including Gabe Woodward in 1999 and 2000 while with the Bakersfield Swim Club. Woodward went on to medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Hopkins holds American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Level 5 certification, the highest attainable. He has earned ASCA Fellow status (2000), been named Central California Swimming Coach of the Year (1999), served as meet director of the 1999 Speedo Junior National Championships, and was a speaker at the ASCA World Clinic in both 2000 and 2002. In late January of 2008, Hopkins was presented with the 2007 Marie Samora Award by USA Swimming's Zone 1-North, in appreciation of his outstanding service to the athletes, coaches and volunteers of United States Swimming. He recently finished a two-year term as Chair of Zone 1-North, and has served on the board in various capacities for several years. He remains a member of Pacific Swimming's Senior Committee. A 1997 cum laude graduate of Cal State Bakersfield with a bachelor's degree in English, Hopkins was a captain of the swim team and a seven-time All-American. As a club swimmer, Hopkins trained under U.S. Olympic team coach Mike Hastings. He and his wife, Tammy, reside in San Jose, Calif., with their son, Gunner, and two dogs, Marley and Tiger.

Curado was appointed the San Jose State University women's swimming and diving assistant coach in July 2014. Curado joined the coaching staff after two seasons as a freestyle sprinter and butterfly specialist for the Spartans. Her times of 50.85 in the 100 freestyle and 54.39 in the 100 butterfly rank ninth and third, respectively on the University's all-time list heading into the 2014-15 season. The 2014 All-Mountain West performer in the 100 fly finished sixth at the conference championship meet. A 2013 redshirt, she shared the team's 2014 Rookie of the Year award at the team's annual post-season awards banquet. Curado began her college career at Rutgers University. She was the Scarlet Knights' team captain her sophomore and junior seasons. While at Rutgers, Curado finished 11th in the 100 free at the 2011 Big East Conference Championships. The 2014 San Jose State graduate majored in communication studies. A former all-state swimmer for Rock Canyon High in Highlands Ranch, Colo., Curado also swam for the Highlands Ranch Aquatics club team.

Butcher was appointed San Jose State University's diving coach in July 2010. As the Spartans diving coach, Butcher is known for nurturing promising divers to record-setting heights, conference in-season and championship meet awards and NCAA Zone Championship qualifying standards. Three divers, recent graduates Amy Kilby and Jessica Holden and sophomore Cari Reiswig, represented San Jose State at NCAA Zone E Championships since he took over as the Spartans' diving coach. Reiswig finished fourth in the 1-meter and fifth in the 3-meter competitions at the 2015 Mountain West Championships prior to the NCAA Zone Championships. The conference's two-time Diver of the Week is part of one of the strongest diving contingents at San Jose State in years. Two more sophomores, Kylie Fonseca and Marissa O'Quinn, have scores in the 1 and 3-meter events that rank in the top-10 all-time at San Jose State. O'Quinn also qualified for the 2015 NCAA Zone E Championships. Butcher came to San Jose State in July 2010 from the Santa Clara (Calif.) Diving Club based out of the George Haines International Swim Center where he was the head coach and program director. During his tenure, he revamped the program from top to bottom and instituted a new teaching program ranging from the recreational diver to national-caliber athletes. The past president (2009 and 2010) of the Northern California Diving Association founded Dive Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 2005. He was the head coach and program director. Butcher directed the club to a fifth-place finish at the 2006 Spring West National Championships and eventually coached numerous Junior Nationals qualifiers and finalists, and one Senior Nationals finalist. While coaching at Dive Oklahoma, he also was a successful diving coach at Westmoore and Putnam City North High Schools in Oklahoma City producing three All-Americans and three state champions. His career as a diving coach began in 2001 when he was on the ground floor of USA Diving's National Training Center's satellite program. Butcher coached two summers doing belt spotting for the National Training Center under U.S. Olympics team coach John Wingfield. During his tenure as a satellite head coach, Butcher coached multiple athletes to USA Diving Junior National Championship qualifying marks. A former college baseball pitcher, Butcher is a graduate 2000 graduate of Purdue University Calumet.