Texas A&M University Women's Swimming

Bultman has overseen one of the most dramatic rises to power in college swimming history since taking over the reins of the womens swimming and diving program at Texas A&M in 1999. When Bultman was hired at Texas A&M on June 2, 1999, the Aggies had never finished higher than third at the conference championships or in the top 10 at the national meet. Under Bultman, the Aggies have never finished lower than second at a conference meet and own a 10-year streak of top 10 finishes at the NCAA Championships. Texas A&M has matched its highest national finish fourth-place finishes at the NCAA meet the past four seasons. Before his arrival, Texas A&M had never won a conference team title, but now owns Big 12 Conference championship trophies from 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012 and a SEC Championship from 2016. He is also a 13-time conference Coach of the Meet or Year. Under his direction, Texas A&M produced its first NCAA individual titles with a pair of wins from Julia Wilkinson and Alia Atkinson at the 2010 NCAA Championships. Since Wilkinson and Atkinsons breakthrough wins, the Aggies have logged eight more individual crowns -- seven by swimmers Cammile Adams, Breeja Larson, Paige Miller and Sarah Henry and one by diver Jaele Patrick. Not surprisingly, every school record has been broken during the Bultman era. The oldest school standard on the A&M record board is from 2010. The Aggies left the Big 12 Conference after the 2012 season holding or sharing 12 conference marks, and set five SEC meet records in A&Ms first season in 2012-13. Larsons development as one of the U.S.s top entries in the breaststroke has yielded the NCAA, US Open and American record in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke. Bultmans influence isnt confined to the collegiate ranks. He has been named to the U.S. Olympic Team coaching staff twice and to a variety of other Team USA coaching staffs, including the 1985 Pan Pacific Games, the 1989 LEN Cup, the 2001, 2009 and 2015 World University Games and the 2013 World Championships. Bultman was named to the 2012 U.S. Olympic coaching staff after Larson and Adams earned their trips to the London Olympics with the programs first-ever wins at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials (Larson in the 100-meter breaststroke and Adams in the 200-meter butterfly). Larson went on to place sixth in the 100 breast and earn a gold medal with Team USAs 400 medley relay, while Adams placed fifth in 200 fly for the highest Olympic finish ever by a current Aggie swimmer. In total, nine current or former A&M swimmers under Bultman competed in London Adams, Triin Aljand (Estonia), Alia Atkinson (Jamaica), Erica Dittmer (Mexico), Liliana Ibanez (Mexico), Larson, Rita Medrano (Mexico), Kim Pavlin (Croatia) and Julia Wilkinson (Canada).   He was named to the 1988 U.S. Olympic Team coaching staff after three of his swimmers Beth Barr, Andrea Hayes and Daniel Watters -- from the Greater Pensacola (Fla.) Aquatic Club (GPAC) advanced to Seoul, South Korea. The 2016 Olympics featured two current Texas A&M swimmers and three more of Bultmans former pupils Beryl Gastaldello (France) and Sydney Pickrem (Canada) from the 2016 squad, as well as Adams, Atkinson and Ibanez. Bultman served as an assistant coach for Mexico in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  In 2008, Bultman served on the coaching staff for the Estonia Olympic Team. Four of members of his 2008 Texas A&M squad joined him at the Beijing Olympic Games Aljand, Atkinson, Christine Marshall (USA) and Wilkinson. Marshall was the first-ever Aggie to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team and she earned the first-ever Olympic medal (bronze with the 800 free relay) in program history. Prior to Texas A&M, served as an assistant swimming coach at the University of Georgia (1995-99) and LSU (1990-91 and 1969-70) and was a successful club coach in Atlanta, Ga. (Dynamo Swim Clu, 1991-95), Boca Raton, Fla. (Mission Bay Makos, 1989-90), Pensacola, Fla. (GPAC, 1980-89, 1975-79), Nashville, Tenn. (Nashville Aquatic Club, 1979-80), and New Orleans, La. (Lynn Park Pirahnas, 1970-75). In 2011, Bultman was a member of the inaugural GPAC Hall of Fame class. Bultman is a 1970 graduate of LSU where he earned his bachelors degree in Psychology. He earned his certification in Physical Education from Tulane in 1975, and he received his masters in Physical Education from the University of West Florida in 1979. An accomplished swimmer himself, Bultman was a LSU swimming letterman (1969, 1970) and won the Louisiana state title in the 50 freestyle while at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, La.  

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.  

Jamison was elevated to associate head coach in 2016 by head coach Steve Bultman after five seasons as his top assistant.   Jamison, who was originally hired on July 7, 2011, has been instrumental in the development of multiple Olympians while at Texas A&M, including Olympic finalists Cammile Adams, Breeja Larson and Sydney Pickrem, and the team has finished in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships every year during her time with the Aggies. Jamison helped lead the Aggies to the Big 12 Conference team title in 2012 and the SEC team crown in 2016. The last four years, the Aggies have matched their program-best fourth-place finish at nationals. Eighteen of the Aggies 19 current swimming school records have been set since Jamisons arrival, including four relay school standards.   Prior to coming to A&M, Jamison worked closely with the sprinter and middle distance groups for the University of Pittburghs swimming and diving teams and also served as the head senior coach of Team Pittsburgh. In 2010-11, Panther swimmers earned five All-Big East awards and broke four school records.   An 11-time All-American and two-time NCAA Champion at the University of Texas under then-head coach Jill Sterkel, Jamison was the 2000 Big 12 Freshman and Newcomer of the Year, earned the Leadership Award in 2001 and 2002, was a two-time team captain and was selected as the teams MVP in 2003.   Jamison has a long-time association with the National Diversity Select Camp, which began when she was a three-time participant in the mid-1990s and continued when she was invited to serve as a National Team athletic representative in 2007 and head coach 2011.   Born in Monongahela, Pa, Jamison graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelors degree in applied learning and development in 2003.  

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.