University of Hawaii at Manoa Women's Swimming

Kohrs, Jr. is in his first season with the University of Hawaii swimming program, serving the Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine as a swimming graduate assistant during the 2015-16 season.   Kohrs has led many championship teams, including the 1994 Hawaii State Championship team and the Maui Swim Club with Co-Head Coach and Hawaii Swimming Hall of Famer Spencer Shiraishi.    As the owner of ConKohrs Barracudas and head coach of Carmel High School in Carmel, Calif. for 17 years, Kohrs coached USA Swimming national qualifiers, junior national finalists, national high school All-Americans, three top-10 nationally ranked teams, 10 Central Coast Section league championship teams and some of the top age group swimmers in the country.    Kohrs recently completed 22 months as the International Olympic Committee expert coach in residence for the Federated States of Micronesia and was meet director for the 2014 Micronesian Games, on the island of Pohnpei in FSM.     Kohrs earned his Bachelors degree in Political Science and swam for the NCAA Division III National Champions (1980-2010, 13-15) at Kenyon College.    He learned to swim before he could walk and understands that most performance for swimmers occurs naturally, at a neuromuscular and subconscious level.  He is pursuing his graduate degree in creative writing and enjoys vibrant and   He previously trained an coached with Flip Hasset (Merced Skimmers), who went on to coach for the U.S. Olympic Womens Water Polo, John Apgar (Palisades-Malibu YMCA, U.S. Swimming Coach of the Year at Nampa, Idaho and Jim Steen (Kenyon), the coach of 31 consecutive NCAA Division III championshipsthe longest run of titles in NCAA history, for any sport   Kohrs also served as a California State Lifeguard for 10 years on the beaches in North San Diego County; and continues to live as one who loves, and is devoted to the aquatic life.  

Rossing draws upon her broad experience in competitive diving as well as 23 years of coaching as she works with the Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine. As an athlete, she competed in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and five European Championships while she was on the Swedish National Team for 12 consecutive years, 1977-1988.   In the 2014-15 season, Rossing, alongside husband and head coach Mike Brown, was named MPSF Womens Co-Diving Coach of the year, her seventh all-conference coaching honor at Hawai`i.     The womens diving team swept the 2015 MPSF Championships, bringing home both the program and the schools first-ever MPSF title across any sport or gender. Additionally, mens MPSF diver of the Year Amund Gismervik swept all three diving events. Gismervik and teammate Aimee Harrison wrapped up another thrilling season with All-American honorable mention statuses.   Rossing has been instrumental in envisioning and creating higher standards for diving at the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Center. Together with diving coach Mike Brown, she works in all aspects of the program including coaching, competitions, recruiting and facility care. In 2007, 2008 and 2011, Rossing guided the mens divers as they swept the Conference USA titles. Rossing was honored with the Conference USAs Mens Diving Coach of the Year award in 2008 and 2011.  The divers helped the Swimming and Diving team win their first ever Conference USA Mens Team Championships.   The Rainbow Warriors made UH diving history with Magnus Frick placing second two years in a row at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships in the 1-meter springboard. He also placed third and sixth in the 3-meter events both years and teammate Mats Wiktorsson also became an All-American both years. These were the highest place finishes ever by a male swimmer or diver from the University of Hawaii.   Rossing, along with coach Mike Brown, was honored with the MPSF Conference Diving Coach of the Year Awards in 2013 and 2014, with the Hawaii Divers winning most of the diving events both years. Completing the 2013-14 season, Rossing coached Amund Gismervik to a thrilling 3rd place platform finish at the highly contested Mens NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships in Austin, Texas.   As an athlete Rossing captured 16 Swedish National Titles and won the World Age Group Championships on 3-meter. Other highlights include placing in the top-three at the Swedish Cup, Austria International, and Bolzano International meets. She placed fourth at the European Championships in 1983 and at the European Cup in 1986. Rossing was an Olympic finalist on the 3-meter springboard in Los Angeles in 1984, and represented Sweden again at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. In 2003, she captured three titles at the U.S. Masters Nationals, held in Honolulu.   Rossing attended the University of Texas where she was a TAIAW conference champion and had fourth and fifth place finishes at the AIAW Nationals. The UT swimming and diving team won their first two AIAW National Championships titles while Rossing was on the squad.   Rossing previously coached with the Longhorn Diving Club in Austin, Texas and Pacific Coast Diving in Victoria, Canada. She worked six years as the director for the Longhorn Diving Camp and 2 years as co-director for the Victoria Diving Camp. Rossing has also worked with the UH Aqua Camps.   Besides assisting the UH diving team, Rossing is Vice President of the Hawaii Diving Association and heads the Sunshine Diving club. The club gives the children of Oahu a place to develop in diving. Anita organizes a number of Association meets each year and some of her Sunshine Divers have attended USA Diving junior meets such as the Junior Regionals, Zones and Junior National Championships.  Rossings joy is to assist divers in using their power more effectively, through proper alignment and technique, and to foster relaxed fluid movements. She pays particular attention to energy and behavior, and makes connections for higher performance.   Rossing earned a B.S. in Education degree from Texas in 1985. Besides coaching, she enjoys swimming in the midst of dolphins in the ocean, seeing the beauty in this world, and being a continuous learner/explorer of life. She and husband, Mike Brown, live in Honolulu. Their daughter Rika graduated from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in 2012, and currently resides in Honolulu.   Awards & Honors 2001 PCSC Mens Co-Diving Coach of the Year 2007 C-USA Mens Diving Coach of the Year 2008 C-USA Mens Diving Coach of the Year 2013 MPSF Womens Co-Diving Coach of the Year 2014 MPSF Mens Co-Diving Coach of the Year 2014 MPSF Womens Co-Diving Coach of the Year 2015 MPSF Womens Co-Diving Coach of the Year

Brown earned his 16th All-Conference Coach of the Year honor after being named MPSF Womens Co-Diving Coach of the Year alongside his wife, assistant coach Anita Rossing. In the 2014-15 season, Brown guided three divers to another year participating in the NCAA Championships.   The womens diving team swept the 2015 MPSF Championships, bringing home both the program and the schools first-ever MPSF title across any sport or gender. Additionally, mens MPSF diver of the Year Amund Gismervik swept all three diving events. Gismervik and teammate Aimee Harrison wrapped up another thrilling season with All-American honorable mention statuses.   In November, 2012, Brown was recognized for his 18 years of coaching at the University of Texas at Austin by being inducted into their UT Womens Athletics Hall of Honor. This past year Brown was honored for his contributions to the state of Texas as a diver and a coach when he was inducted into the Texas Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame. Despite the accolades, Brown feels that the present is more important than the past.    During the past 15 years, two Rainbow Wahine divers won NCAA titles (QiongJie Huang -2005, 1 meter, and Emma Friesen - 2008, 1 meter). Magnus Frick and Rui Wang were NCAA runner-ups for Hawaii. Amund Gismervik joined the UH group of All-Americans with his third-place finish in 2014. Mats Wiktorsson and Megan Farrow also have placed in the top four at the NCAAs for UH. Brown states, It is quite an accomplishment when a UH diver competes against the best divers in the NCAA, places in the top eight and receives All-American honors. Hawaii divers have earned 20 such All-American honors during the past eleven years. At the 2006 Womens NCAA Championships the Rainbow Wahine were the highest scoring diving team in the country.   Brown combines his experience and diving perspective from Texas, Hawaii and international competitions. His combined accomplishments include being a three-time NCAA Diving Coach of the Year, diving coach of 14 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship teams, coach of nine NCAA champions, coach of 48 All-Americans, and being one of two coaches of the 1982 USA Divings World Championship Team that swept all of the individual and the team world titles.   Brown feels that the greatest joy that he gets out of his job is working in harmony with Anita Rossing as they help develop the Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warrior divers to higher levels of performance. Brown also enjoys joining Anita in the ocean as they swim with the highly intelligent Hawaiian spinner dolphins and communicate with the humpback whales. Brown and Rossings daughter Rika Rossing lives and works in Honolulu after graduating from Naropa University in 2012. Rikas artistry is expanding in many modalities.   Awards & Honors Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame (inducted 2012) University of Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Honor (inducted 2012) Hawai`i Swimming Hall of Fame (inducted 2015)   2001 PCSC Mens Co-Diving Coach of the Year 2002 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2003 NIC Mens Diving Coach of the Year 2005 NIC Mens Diving Coach of the Year 2006 C-USA Mens Diving Coach of the Year 2006 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2007 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2008 WAC Womens Diving Co-Coach of the Year 2009 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2010 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2011 C-USA Mens Diving Co-Coach of the Year 2011 WAC Womens Diving Coach of the Year 2013 MPSF Womens Diving Co-Coach of the Year 2014 MPSF Mens Diving Co-Coach of the Year 2014 MPSF Womens Diving Co-Coach of the Year 2015 MPSF Womens Diving Co-Coach of the Year