Texas A&M University Men's Swimming

Holmes will be entering his 30 th season as a coach with the Texas A&M swimming and diving program, and his 12th season at the helm of the mens team in 2015-16. During his time as head coach the Aggies have experienced unprecedented success with nine top 25 team finishes and numerous Olympians, conference champions and All-Americans. Holmes has also had a huge impact on the Texas A&M program by spearheading a highly-successful fundraising campaign with a goal of endowing the swimming and diving programs. In the 2014-15 school year alone, Holmes efforts have generated nearly a quarter-million dollars in ear-marked donations for the swimming and diving teams. Holmes was voted the Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2004-05 in his first season as head coach after guiding the Aggies to a runner-up team finish at the Big 12 Championships and No. 15 finish at the NCAA Championships. In 2012, Holmes was voted the Big 12 Coach of the Meet after another runner-up Big 12 finish. Holmes, who began his long association with Texas A&M as a student-athlete in 1980, was named the sixth head swimming coach at Texas A&M on July 14, 2004. Coach Holmes hard work, experience and dedication to the A&M program earned him the opportunity to lead the program that hes spent most of the previous 20-plus years as a part of. In his 30 years as a coach at Texas A&M, Holmes has been the person most attentive to the details associated with being a coach of one of the nations top swimming programs. He points out that all of the effort is worthwhile when he sees the athletes realize that their hard work does indeed pay off. His hard work has paid great dividends in the pool over the years as well. All of A&Ms school records have been set during Holmes head-coaching tenure at A&M, with many of them coming over the past five years. Holmes work as an assistant coach was rewarded with a berth on the coaching staff of the 2001 USA Open Water team. He coached former A&M standout Patrick Dideum to a 13th-place finish at the Open Water World Championships in Fukouka, Japan, that summer. Holmes first came to A&M in the fall of 1980 after graduating from Corsicana High School. He was recruited by then-first-year head coach Mel Nash to be a breaststroke/butterfly specialist. Little did Nash know that he would end up getting much more than just a swimmer. Holmes swam four years for the Aggies, eventually earning a bachelor of science degree in business administration in 1984. After completing his eligibility, Holmes served as a student assistant coach in the fall of 1984 while completing with coursework. Holmes and his brother opened a sign company back home in Corsicana in the spring of 1985, but his heart remained at the pool. In the fall of 1986, he accepted Nashs offer to become the assistant coach for the mens and womens swimming teams at A&M. Holmes served as the assistant for both squads until 1995. That year, the year that A&M unveiled the Student Rec Center Natatorium, former Athletic Director Wally Groff made the decision to hire a coaching staff specifically for the womens program, which would allow Nash and Holmes to concentrate on the mens squad.   The Holmes File Born: Aug. 18, 1962 in Houston, Texas Wife: Annette Grizzle Holmes Children: Meredith Joy and Cooper Samuel   Education College: Texas A&M University, 1984; B.S. in Business Administration   Coaching career 1987-1995: Assistant Mens and Womens Swimming Coach, Texas A&M 1995-2004: Assistant Mens Swimming Coach, Texas A&M 2004-Present: Head Mens Swimming Coach, Texas A&M   Coaching Honors 2001: Assistant Coach, U.S. National Open Water Team 2004-05: Big 12 Mens Coach of the Year 2010: Big 12 Mens Coach of the Meet  

Lerew is in his seventh year of directing Texas A&Ms diving program.   Since his arrival to the program on November of 2009, A&M has produced its first NCAA Champion (Jaele Patrick in the 3m dive in 2012) and multiple conference individual champions and All-Americans. He also earned conference Dive Coach of the Meet or Year six times.   The U.S. Olympic head diving coach at the 2000 Olympics, Lerew previously coached Team Orlando (Fla.) to eight Junior National team championships, and coached 10 individual senior national title winners in 11 years with the team.   A two-time U.S. Junior Coach of the Year, Lerew served as head coach for multiple U.S. National Teams, at the World Championships, the World Cup and various Grand Prix events at both the junior and senior level.   Lerew also served as a head diving coach at Moss Farm Diving in Moultrie, Ga., from 1989-98, the diving coach and aquatics director at the Schroeder YMCA in Milwaukee, Wisc. (1981-89), and was the head womens diving coach at Colorado State (1979-81).   A 1975 graduate of Colorado State with a degree in physical education, Lerew was an aerial acrobatic skier on the Professional Freestyle Skiing Tour before becoming a diving coach.   Lerew is married to the former Wendy Reich, who was the co-head coach of Team Orlando Diving and currently is a diving assistant for both Aggie squads. Wendy Lerew was an All-America diver at Florida State and a two-time Canadian Olympian in platform diving. The Lerews have four daughters, Chelsie, Brittany, Niki Reich and Shelby.  

Calanog is in his second year as an assistant coach at Texas A&M.   Hired on June 5, 2015, Calanogs infectious positivity and attention to detail paid immediate dividends as the Aggies returned to the top 25 at the NCAA Championships in his first season with the program. In his initial season in Aggieland, Texas A&M finished No. 25 at the national meet, had two school records broken and compiled a 7-1 dual meet record, which was the teams best in more than a decade.   Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Calanog served as a senior assistant coach at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla., from 2007-15. During his time with the club team, his swimmers set multiple national age group records and qualified for the Olympic Games and FINA World Championships, as well as the Junior World Championships, U.S. Nationals and Junior Nationals.   Calanog was named a USA National Team coach in 2016 and served as a USA National Junior Team coach the previous three seasons. He was also tabbed as the head coach of the USA Swimming Diversity Camp West team in 2014.   Calanog has a long history of coaching with the Philippines National Team. He was the Philippines head coach for the 2010 Pan Pacific Games (Irvine, Calif.) and the 2009 FINA World Championships (Rome, Italy). He was also an assistant coach for the Philippines National Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, as well as the 2007 and 2009 South East Asian Games.   Calanog added to his swimming repertoire by serving as television analyst for the Florida Swim Networks recap show at the Florida High School Athletic Associations state swimming championships in 2014. He was a reporter for the Florida Swim Network at the 2015 NCAA Mens Swimming and Diving Championships.   Calanog served as volunteer assistant coach for then-head coach Sergio Lopez and the West Virginia Mountaineers from 2006 to 2007. He helped the Mountaineer mens team to the 2007 Big East team title and the womens team to its highest conference finish in school history. He also was an assistant coach for the West Virginia Aquatics club team.   Calanog, who is married to the former Tracey Mascola, earned his bachelors degree in multidisciplinary studies with a concentration in business administration, communications and economics from West Virginia in 2007.      

Dawson has served as the director of swimming & diving operations for both the mens and womens programs at Texas A&M since 2007. Dawson works as closely with the Aggie swimmers and divers as any employee in the athletic department. He assists in the recruiting process, in addition to many other far-ranging duties asked of him by both the mens and womens staffs. He is responsible for all away meet travel and logistics and serves as Meet Director for all home events.     He was instrumental in the preparation and operation of the 2009 NCAA Mens and Womens Swimming & Diving Championships in College Station, as well as the 2010 Big 12 Championships, 2010 AT&T USA Diving Championships and the 2013 Southeastern Conference Championships.   Dawson served as a High Performance Consultant for the USA Swimming National Team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Team Trials, the 2009, 2013 and 2014 USA World Championship Trials and the 2013 World University Games in Shenzhen, China. He served as Team Manager for Team USA at the 2014 Short Course World Championships in Doha, Qatar, the 2015 Duel in the Pool in Indianapolis and the 2016 USA Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Neb. Dawson spent the spring of 2007 serving as a national team intern for USA Swimming in Colorado Springs. While Dawson spent time researching lactate clearance for the Sport Science staff and analyzing race databases and editing video for the national team athletes and coaches as well as taking part in several national team camps. He has also served as a programs intern for Special Olympics in Indiana. Dawson was a four-year letterman for the Texas A&Ms mens swimming and diving team, competing from 2003-06, and served as team captain during his senior season. An academic All-Big 12 selection, he qualified for the NCAA Championships during his junior season. Dawson, who is married to the former Casey Walling, graduated from Texas A&M in 2007 with a bachelors degree in sports management and a minor in business. Dawson is originally from Indianapolis and graduated from North Central High School. The Dawsons have two children, Parker and Kinley.