University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Men's Swimming

DeSelm is leading his alma mater to new heights in the swimming pool and the classroom.  DeSelm was named a U.S. Swimming National Team coach for the calendar year 2014, the highest honor U.S. Swimming can bestow on a coach. The program has made great strides under DeSelms tutelage in the past eight years.  DeSelm had been a highly successful head coach at Davidson College and a long-time assistant at perennial Top 10 program Florida before he assumed the full-time head coaching duties at Carolina on July 1, 2007. Carolina is coming off a 2014-15 season in which both teams returned to the Top 20 of the NCAA Championships with the men taking 18th and the women 19th.  In a deep ACC league, UNC took top four finishes on both sides of the ledger.  At the NCAA Championships, 12 of Carolinas 13 entries in the womens meet earned All-America honors as did seven of the nine entries in the mens championships.  The two teams combined to establish 17 news short course school records. The Tar Heels also had an outstanding 2013-14 season.  Meredith Hoover earned first-team All-America honors for the second straight year to lead individual honors by the squad.  The women finished 19th nationally and moved up to second in the ACC.  The men had another solid campaign and finished third in the ACC.  The teams combined for an 18-4 dual meet mark.  During the course of the year the women set eight new school short course records and the men established seven University marks.  A total of 48 swimmers and divers were named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll, the most in the history of the Carolina aquatics program. In 2012-13, DeSelm led the Tar Heels to another brilliant season in the pool.  Both teams finished in the top three at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships and UNC had the mens and womens ACC swimmers of the year in the same season for the first time since 1996 when Tom Luchsinger and Cari Blalock won the awards.  The womens 12th place finish at the NCAA Championships was the highest placing in 11 seasons.  Eleven Tar Heels earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championships.  UNC set 13 short course school records and seven long course University marks.  During the summer months, Stephanie Peacock won a pair of medals at the World University Games and Tom Luchsinger won the U.S. national title in the 200-meter butterfly, the first Tar Heel man to win a championship since 1996.  Luchsinger was also the first UNC man to swim for the U.S. at the World Championships since 1998.  DeSelm was also named the ACC Womens Swimming Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, the first back-to-back designation for a Tar Heel head coach since Frank Comfort in 2001 and 2002.  In December 2012, Peacock set NCAA records in the 1000-yard freestyle and 1650-yard freestyle under DeSelms tutelage. In 2011-12, DeSelm led Carolina to one of its most successful combined seasons in history.  Forty-eight Tar Heels qualified for the 2012 Olympics Trials, UNC swimmers combined to set 24 records, the Tar Heel men finished in the Top 15 for the third straight year and the Carolina women placed 19th at the NCAA meet.  After a 14th-place finish at the 2012 NCAA meet, UNCs men achieved back-to-back-to-back NCAA Top 15 finishes for the first time since 1956-58.  The 19th-place finish by the UNC women was the teams best finish since 2003.  In August 2012, Peacock and Luchsinger were named to the U.S. National Team. In 2011-12, DeSelm was named ACC Womens Coach of the Year and Peacock swept the ACC Swimmer of the Year honor and the MVP award at the ACC Championships.  Peacock won the NCAA championship in the 1650-yard freestyle in an NCAA record time and she placed third in the 500-yard freestyle.  It was the first NCAA championship for a UNC woman since 2003 (Jessi Perruquet in the 200-yard freestyle) and Steve Cebertowicz finished sixth in both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles at the NCAA meet, the first time a Tar Heel man has made the championship final in both events since Pete Worthen in 1965. In September 2011, U.S. Swimming named DeSelm to the National Team staff.  This came on the heels of his first-ever international head coaching assignment in August 2011 when he piloted the ship for the U.S. mens team at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China.  Two Tar Heel student-athletes mentored by DeSelm won bronze medals at the those Games Tyler Harris in the 400-meter individual medley and Stephanie Peacock in the 400-meter freestyle. The 2010-11 season was also a magnificent one under DeSelms tutelage.  The men and women both took second in the conference championships with the women achieving their highest point total in four years.  The women garnered their third successive NCAA Top 25 finish while the men finished 14th at NCAAs, the highest team finish in 18 years.  UNCs women won five individual titles and two relay championships at the ACC meet and the men won five individual crowns.  Altogether, UNC rewrote the short course record book for both teams with nine new school records on the womens side and 12 on the mens ledger.  Five school records fell during the long course season in summer 2011.  Individually, Tyler Harris placed third in the 400 IM at the NCAA meet, the highest individual placing by a UNC man since 1966.  Joe Kinderwater copped first-team All-America honors in the 1650-yard freestyle and became only the third mens swimmer in Carolina history to win first-team honors all four years.  The mens 800-yard freestyle relay garnered first-team All-America accolades, the first Tar Heel relay to do so in 18 seasons.  Carly Smith, Layne Brodie and Tyler Harris each won a pair of individual ACC titles and Tommy Wyher captured the mens 100-yard backstroke at the ACC meet, becoming only the 20th individual in ACC history to win the same event four years in a row.  Tyler Harris was named the ACC Mens Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year, following in the footsteps of Chip Peterson who won the award a year earlier. DeSelm has been an elite coach at every level during 38 years of collegiate coaching.  As an assistant coach at North Carolina (1978-93) and Florida (2000-06), he assisted on teams that won 16 conference championships and placed in the Top 25 on 36 occasions at the NCAA Championships, including 21 Top 10 finishes.  As a head coach at Davidson his teams won seven conference championships and placed in the Top 10 of the ECAC Championships seven times in eight years. A team captain, first-team All-America and long-time assistant coach at Carolina, DeSelm earned his bachelors degree in business administration from UNC in 1978.  He went on to earn a masters degree from Duke in 1988 in liberal studies.  He swam at Carolina from 1974-78 as a distance freestyler.  He was the captain of coach Frank Comforts first team in 1978 when he was the squads most valuable swimmer.  In 1976, DeSelm was a first-team All-America selection in the 800-yard freestyle relay. DeSelm served as head coach designate in 2006-07, and became the head coach when Frank Comfort retired on June 30, 2007. Comfort was the winningest dual-meet swimming coach in college history when he retired and he led Carolina to 26 ACC championships in his 30-year tenure.  DeSelm had previously worked as Comforts No. 1 assistant for 15 seasons from 1978-93, years in which the program competed spectacularly in both the conference and national competitions.  In DeSelms sole year as the head coach designate, Carolinas women claimed the ACC title for the first time in five years and both the men and women improved their NCAA finishes from the previous campaign.  Sixteen swimmers and divers were named to the 2007 All-ACC Teams. In his first year at the helm of the Carolina program in 2007-08, DeSelm coached the Tar Heels to second-place finishes at the ACC Championships. The mens second-place finish was their highest placing since 2001.  For the first time since 2004, three Tar Heel men achieved All-America honors. Tyler Harris won the ACC title and set a UNC record in the 400 IM. Joe Kinderwater claimed the ACC championship and first-team All-America honors in the 1650 freestyle.  He set school records in the 1000 and 1650 freestyles while making the finals of the 2008 Olympic Trials in the 1500-meter freestyle.  Junior Whitney Sprague continued her record-setting career with ACC championships in the 500 and 1650 freestyles. She placed second in the NCAA Championships in the 1650 freestyle. The Tar Heel program went to another level during DeSelms second year at UNC in 2008-09. Carolina sent nine women and five men to the 2009 NCAA Championships with the women finishing 20th, Carolinas best placing since 2003. Sprague was the NCAA runner-up for the second year in a row in the 1650 freestyle while breaking the ACC record in the event.  Katura Harvey placed seventh at the NCAA meet in the 1650 and broke the ACC record in the 500 freestyle.  Layne Brodie was named ACC Freshman-of-the-Year, the first Tar Heel to win the award since Jessi Perruquet in 2003.  She broke UNC records in three events and conference records in the 100 and 200-yard breaststrokes. On the mens side, Tyler Harris broke the 200-yard IM and 400-yard IM school records. Kinderwater placed eighth at NCAAs in the 1650-yard freestyle where he was named first-team All-America and broke the UNC record.  Kinderwater also placed fourth at World Championships Trials in the 1500-meter freestyle in 2009. Junior Chip Peterson broke the 500-yard freestyle school record.  Sophomore Tommy Wyher captured a pair of ACC titles and set league records in the 100 fly and 100 back and a school record in the 200 back. Both Tar Heel teams had banner campaigns in 2009-10.  The Tar Heel men finished second at the ACC Championships with 656.5 points, the most points UNC had scored in the meet since 2000.  Carolinas 15th-place NCAA finish was its best since 1996.  Carolina captured an ACC relay title for the first time in 12 years.  Three Tar Heels Joe Kinderwater, Tommy Wyher and Tyler Harris earned first-team All-America honors for UNC, the most in a single year since 1993.  Nine UNC swimmers overall earned first-team or honorable mention All-America accolades, the most since 1996.  Eight UNC performers were named All-ACC, the most since 1997.  UNC swimmers eclipsed nine school records during the school year.  Senior Chip Peterson was named the ACC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year and an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America.  He became the first Tar Heel mens swimmer since 1965 to win the Patterson Medal as the schools outstanding senior athlete.  The womens squad improved their point total at ACCs for the second straight year, scoring 642.5 points, the most since 2007.  For the second straight year UNC placed 20th at the NCAA Championships and the Tar Heels had relays score for the first time since 2003.  Altogether, UNC swimmers established seven school records, including three relay marks.  Laura Moriarty won three individual ACC championships, the most by a UNC womens swimmer since Richelle Fox won three titles in 1998.  Moriarty earned first-team All-America honors and she was one of seven Tar Heels overall who earned All-America accolades. DeSelm was an assistant at Carolina from 1978 to 1993. In his 15 years of coaching at Carolina, the Tar Heels won 14 Atlantic Coast Conference championships including nine by the women and five by the men.  The women had seven Top 10 and 14 Top 20 NCAA finishes, while the men finished in the national Top 25 on 10 occasions. While at Florida, DeSelm helped recruit and coach mens and womens teams that were consistently among the best in the country. Each year from 2001 through 2006, both the mens and womens swimming teams finished the season in the Top 10 nationally, posting seven Top five finishes along the way. The Gators earned more than 300 All-America honors in his six years in Gainesville, including a school-record 26 citations by Carlos Jayme, who DeSelm helped mentor from 2000-2004. Jayme was the 2001 Southeastern Conference Freshman-of-the-Year and the school record holder in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle. DeSelm also assisted in the training of Brazilian Olympian Gabriel Mangabiera, who finished fifth in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2004 Olympic Games. DeSelm led Davidson College to four womens and three mens titles at the Southern States Championships and he earned five coach-of-the-year awards. Mary Shell Brosche won three consecutive Southern States swimmer-of-the-year awards under his tutelage.  The Wildcats placed in the Top 10 of the ECAC meet seven times in eight years. He coached a pair of Tar Heels to berths in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.  Yann deFabrique, a first-team All-America at Carolina, was the 1993 French national champion in the 400-meter freestyle. David Monasterio, a first-team All-America at UNC in the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly, swam on the 1992 Puerto Rican Olympic Team. Other notable UNC swimmers coached by DeSelm as an assistant from 1979-93 included Sue Walsh, Barb Harris, Polly Winde, James Hamrick, Carrie Szulc, John Davis, Gary Gauch, Melissa Douse and Sarah Perroni.  Walsh and Winde were members of the 1983 United States Team in the Pan American Games. While an assistant, Walsh won 11 individual national titles and Harris individually and the Tar Heels womens 200-yard medley relay team also won national crowns. DeSelm was the assistant manager for the U.S. team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, and the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships. He was the head manager for U.S. teams at the 1997 and 1999 Pan Pacific Championships and the 1995 Pan American Games. DeSelm and his wife, Tracy, a physician, have two children, Grant, 19 years old, was a football and lacrosse player at Chapel Hill High School, graduating in 2014.  He is now a sophomore at the University of Georgia.  Claire, 17 years old, is a senior at Chapel Hill High School, and a talented swimmer. in her own right. DeSelm is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and attended high school there and in Jacksonville, Fla., where he graduated from The Bolles School in 1974.

Sherrard.  Im looking forward to working with the student-athletes and continuing to build upon the excellence that is already here. My wife Diane, my kids and myself are excited to be a part of the Tar Heel family. Sherrard, who earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Florida in 2002 and a M.Ed. in educational leadership and higher education administration from Florida Atlantic in 2009, had been the head coach at Florida Southern in Lakeland since 2009.  Simultaneously, he had served as the owner and head swim coach at Lakeland Area Swimming.  Prior to going to FSC, he was an assistant swimming coach at Indian River State College in Ft. Pierce, Fla., from 2006-09. Our team members and coaches are extremely excited to have Duncan join our staff at UNC. I have known Duncan and his wife, Diane, since they were swimmers at Florida when I joined the coaching staff there in 2000. Duncan was a hard worker and tough racer as a swimmer and he has transferred those personal qualities into his coaching, says Coach DeSelm.  As a coach, Duncan has proven that he can lead, motivate and coach swimmers to improvements, championships and great careers. His head coaching experience will enhance our efforts in administration, recruiting, coaching and nurturing our team members here in Chapel Hill. Sherrard comes to Chapel Hill after a distinguished tenure at Florida Southern where he was named the Sunshine State Conference Mens Coach of the Year three times.  He led the Moccasins to Sunshine State Conference titles each of his last three years there (2013-15).  In both 2013 and 2014, Florida Southern finished as the NCAA Division II runner-up after grabbing third place in 2012.   His womens team also excelled as the women finished in the Top 10 of the NCAA Division II Championships four years in a row from 2011-14 while the men were in the Top 10 five successive seasons (2011-15). Thirty-three different Moccasin swimmers accounted for 278 All-America honors during his tenure, including nine NCAA champions (eight individual swimmers and four national champion relay teams). The team broke NCAA Division II records in two individual events and three relays.  Sherrard also coached student-athletes to the 2012 Olympic Games and to the 2011 and 2013 FINA World Championships. FSC was also honored with a pair of Elite 89 winners at the 2012 womens and 2013 mens NCAA Division II Championships, given to the student-athletes competing at the meet with the highest grade point averages. Sherrards tutelage at Indian River State was also key to the teams success there as they won the 2007 and 2008 womens and mens National Junior College Athletic Association crowns.  Over two years, the school produced 76 national championship swimmer and established 29 national records.  Sherrard also served as head coach for Buchholz High School in Gainesville from 2004-06 and was an age group swim coach with Gator Swim Club from 2002-05. He was a decorated collegiate swimmer at Florida where he swam from 1998-2002.  He was a 14-time NCAA All-America his final three years and was named Southeastern Conference first-team selection each of those seasons.  He captained the Gators as a senior in 2001-02. Sherrard is married to Diane Tennison Sherrard, a six-time NCAA All-America swimmer at the University of Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in sports management in 2003 and a Master of Science in sports management in 2004, both from UF. The Sherrards have two children, Reagan Sherrard, eight, and Nathan Sherrard, six. Position: Assistant Coach Year: Freshman Experience: 2 Years

Quinn has been a part of the UNC swimming program since 1999 as a student-athlete, volunteer coach, part-time assistant coach and the head coach of the North Carolina Aquatic Club, a U.S. Swimming club program based in Chapel Hill that trains at UNCs Koury Natatorium. Quinn has excelled as the NCAC head coach and was named in September 2015 as the North Carolina Swimming Coach of the Year, an award named in honor of Franke Belle. A former Tar Heel school record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke and current record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke, Quinn, recently completed his seventh year as a part-time assistant coach for the Carolina swimming program following six years in which he served as one of the programs volunteer coaches. He served as a staff coach for the NCAC from 2003 to 2010 when he was named the clubs head coach. We are extremely excited to name Sean Quinn to our staff, DeSelm says.  As the head coach of our club team, North Carolina Aquatic Club, for the past six years, Sean has demonstrated outstanding leadership and coaching abilities. His transition should be an easy one because, for 13 years, Sean has also been coaching our college swimmers on a part-time basis. The team knows and respects him and will benefit from his impact, now on a full-time basis. Sean is an outstanding coach, knows and loves UNC, is a fantastic representative of our school and program and will bring a great deal of knowledge and passion to the team, in practice and recruiting. He is a seasoned administrator and will be a great asset in that aspect of the job. We look forward to Sean moving into this new role with us. Over the years, Quinn has worked to build NCAC into one of the top age group programs in the country, boasting multiple Nationals, Junior Nationals and Olympic Trials qualifiers.  In September 2014, he achieved one of the highest coaching honors when U.S. Swimming named him a National Team coach.  In 2015, he was named a U.S. National Team coach for the second year in a row.  Prior to becoming the overall head coach, Quinn was the head age group coach for the North Carolina Aquatic Club.  He was selected as a North Carolina Zone Team coach in 2009.  Quinn helped coach the North Carolina team to a third-place finish in that competition in Orlando, Fla. A native of Lancaster, S.C., and 1999 alumnus of Lancaster High School, Quinn was a three-time All-America selection as a Tar Heel, earning those honors in 2000, 2002 and 2003.  His best NCAA finish was an eighth place in the 200-yard breaststroke as a freshman in 2000.  He also finished 10th in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships in 2002. Quinn, a tri-captain of the 2002-03 Tar Heel team, won a silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  He finished fifth in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.  He was offered a slot on the United States Team at the 2002 Short Course World Championships in Moscow.  During his freshman year at UNC, he competed in the Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece.  Before enrolling at Carolina, he swam in the 1999 U.S. Junior World Championships in Barcelona on a U.S. team coached by former Tar Heel head mentor Frank Comfort. Quinn won ACC individual championships in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2000 and 2003.  Until 2014, he held the Tar Heel school record in the 200-yard breaststroke at 1:56.39.  He still holds the Tar Heel record in the 200-meter breaststroke at 2:14.92 set at the 2002 U.S. National Championships.  A four-time All-ACC selection, Quinn swam for the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club while in high school and was coached there by Pat Hogan.  Quinn was named Carolinas most outstanding swimmer in 2000 and 2002 and the teams most valuable swimmer in 2003.  His sister Kathleen swam for four years at UNC and was a tri-captain of the 2004-05 womens team. Quinn graduated from Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies. Born May 20, 1981, Quinn is married to Beth Colacurcio Quinn, herself a former UNC swimmer.  They have a daughter, Alice, 3 1/2 years old.  Son Henry will celebrate his first birthday on December 8, 2016. RELATED LINKS Sign Up For Free Email Updates Sean Quinn has been promoted to the position of full-time assistant swimming coach at the University of North Carolina as announced by Tar Heel head coach Rich DeSelm Monday. Quinn has been a part of the UNC swimming program since 1999 as a student-athlete, volunteer coach, part-time assistant coach and the head coach of the North Carolina Aquatic Club, a U.S. Swimming club program based in Chapel Hill that trains at UNCs Koury Natatorium. Quinn has excelled as the NCAC head coach and was named in September 2015 as the North Carolina Swimming Coach of the Year, an award named in honor of Franke Belle. A former Tar Heel school record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke and current record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke, Quinn, recently completed his seventh year as a part-time assistant coach for the Carolina swimming program following six years in which he served as one of the programs volunteer coaches. He served as a staff coach for the NCAC from 2003 to 2010 when he was named the clubs head coach. We are extremely excited to name Sean Quinn to our staff, DeSelm says.  As the head coach of our club team, North Carolina Aquatic Club, for the past six years, Sean has demonstrated outstanding leadership and coaching abilities. His transition should be an easy one because, for 13 years, Sean has also been coaching our college swimmers on a part-time basis. The team knows and respects him and will benefit from his impact, now on a full-time basis. Sean is an outstanding coach, knows and loves UNC, is a fantastic representative of our school and program and will bring a great deal of knowledge and passion to the team, in practice and recruiting. He is a seasoned administrator and will be a great asset in that aspect of the job. We look forward to Sean moving into this new role with us. Over the years, Quinn has worked to build NCAC into one of the top age group programs in the country, boasting multiple Nationals, Junior Nationals and Olympic Trials qualifiers.  In September 2014, he achieved one of the highest coaching honors when U.S. Swimming named him a National Team coach.  In 2015, he was named a U.S. National Team coach for the second year in a row.  Prior to becoming the overall head coach, Quinn was the head age group coach for the North Carolina Aquatic Club.  He was selected as a North Carolina Zone Team coach in 2009.  Quinn helped coach the North Carolina team to a third-place finish in that competition in Orlando, Fla. A native of Lancaster, S.C., and 1999 alumnus of Lancaster High School, Quinn was a three-time All-America selection as a Tar Heel, earning those honors in 2000, 2002 and 2003.  His best NCAA finish was an eighth place in the 200-yard breaststroke as a freshman in 2000.  He also finished 10th in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships in 2002. Quinn, a tri-captain of the 2002-03 Tar Heel team, won a silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  He finished fifth in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.  He was offered a slot on the United States Team at the 2002 Short Course World Championships in Moscow.  During his freshman year at UNC, he competed in the Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece.  Before enrolling at Carolina, he swam in the 1999 U.S. Junior World Championships in Barcelona on a U.S. team coached by former Tar Heel head mentor Frank Comfort. Quinn won ACC individual championships in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2000 and 2003.  Until 2014, he held the Tar Heel school record in the 200-yard breaststroke at 1:56.39.  He still holds the Tar Heel record in the 200-meter breaststroke at 2:14.92 set at the 2002 U.S. National Championships.  A four-time All-ACC selection, Quinn swam for the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club while in high school and was coached there by Pat Hogan.  Quinn was named Carolinas most outstanding swimmer in 2000 and 2002 and the teams most valuable swimmer in 2003.  His sister Kathleen swam for four years at UNC and was a tri-captain of the 2004-05 womens team. Quinn graduated from Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies. Born May 20, 1981, Quinn is married to Beth Colacurcio Quinn, herself a former UNC swimmer.  They have a daughter, Alice, 3 1/2 years old.  Son Henry will celebrate his first birthday on December 8, 2016.

Garth was added as the fifth full-time member of the Carolina swimming coaching staff in September 2008.  She is a long-time Tar Heel, having captained Carolina teams that won ACC titles in the 1990s. As a Tar Heel alumna, she has been a key conduit with UNCs alumni base and much of the success of the lobby/entrance way area at Koury Natatorium, including the Blue Dolphin Hall of Honor is due to Garths efforts.  She worked hand-in-hand with alumnus and donor Greg Sanchez and Sue Walsh of the Educational Foundation to make the project a reality. Last year, Garth was a key coaching contributor as UNC placed 18th in the NCAA mens meet and 19th in the womens meet.  Carolina also set 17 school short course records during the 2014-15 campaign. Garth made key contributions to the stroke group as the Tar Heels placed in the top three of both ACC championships in 2013-14.  Along the way, Carolina swimmers set 15 school short course records, including in six relay events. Tar Heel teams have flourished under Garths keen coaching skills.  From 2008-10, she coached the distance group with head coach Rich DeSelm.  During the 2009-10 season, she worked with a middle distance group that qualified Evan Reed and Hank Browning for the NCAA Championships. During the very successful 2012-13 campaign, Garth coached the middle distance group.  She directly coached three of the four members of the womens unit that broke the ACC record in the 400-yard freestyle relay - Ally Hardesty, Lauren Earp and Danielle Siverling.  That relay earned an automatic NCAA qualification.  Two individuals in Garths group qualified for the NCAA meet - Earp and Siverling.  That 2013 squad finished 12th at the NCAA Championships and broke multiple team records. Garth, a 1996 alumnus of Carolina and a four-year letter winner on the Carolina womens swimming team, brings excitement, experience and depth to the coaching staff.  Garth worked in the past with associate head coach Mike Litzinger leading the stroke group.  She has served in that capacity since 2012 and worked with a slew of NCAA qualifers and U.S. National Team members. Garth has been a key part of Carolinas successful summer program that led to nearly 50 qualifiers for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. Garth was a decorated swimmer at Carolina during her four-year tenure. She was an All-ACC selection four successive years from 1993-96 and was part of four ACC championship teams while a collegian. Garth was a two-year team captain in 1994-95 and 1995-96 and the winner of the programs Hill Carrow Spirit Award in both 1994-95 and 1995-96. She qualified for U.S. Olympic Trials in 2000 and was an Olympic torchbearer in 2002 when the Winter Games were in Salt Lake City. Her collegiate coaching experience includes two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland in the early 2000s. She also served as an interim assistant coach for womens swimming at the University of Michigan during the 2000-01 school year. While at Michigan, Garth also coached at prestigious Club Wolverine for two seasons. Garth has worked in a variety of sports-related jobs. Directly out of college, she worked for the United States Golf Association as the U.S. Womens Open directors assistant. Following that, she worked on production crews for ABC Sports from 1996-98. Garth also worked for NBC during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games as part of the production crew. From 2001-03, she worked for Speedo as an accounts manager before she began coaching at the University of Maryland. Prior to coming to UNC in 2008, Garth was the head swim coach at Duchesne Academy in Houston, Texas. Garth studied political science and communication studies at North Carolina. Today, she continues to swim and was honored as a Top 10 Masters swimmer in 2009. Garth is married to Trey Blazer, a physician at Duke Medical Center.  The couple has two children.  Callie Ann Blazer was born on December 29, 2011.  Little brother, Colton James Blazer, joined the family on May 11, 2014. Garth served as director of the Rich DeSelm Swim Camp in 2014 and continued in that role in 2015.

Peterson, who still actively competes in open water swimming and was named in September 2013 and again in September 2014 to the U.S. Swimming National Team in that discipline, has been coaching with the North Carolina Aquatic Club over the past two years and continues in that role. A native of Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., Peterson is a 2010 UNC alumnus.  He won the Patterson Medal as UNCs outstanding mens senior student-athlete that year, the first UNC mens swimmer to win it since Harrison Merrill in 1965.  He was also named the ACC Mens Swimming Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2010 and was a three-time member of the All-ACC Academic Team as an undergraduate. Before attending Carolina, Peterson won the U.S. and world championships in 10 kilometer open water swimming in 2005.  He continued to excel as a Tar Heel, twice being named All-ACC and in 2010 capping his career with the ACC championship in the 1650-yard freestyle.  He earned NCAA All-America honors in 2007, 2009 and 2010, missing only in 2008 when he sat out the season to train with the U.S. National Open Water Swimming Team full-time.  He earned All-America honors in both the 500-yard freestyle and 1650-yard freestyle as a collegian. Peterson is a two-time gold medalist at the Pan American Games in 2007 and 2015.  He also won a silver in 2007.  This past summer he won the gold in 10 kilometer open water swimming at the Toronto Pan Ams.

Sanchez recruited this class on the heels of a tremendous 2014-15 season for the diving group.  For the third time in school history UNC qualified two men for the NCAA national championships, the most recent time being Ryan Funderburk and Jon Fox in 2006.  It was also the first time UNC had qualified two women for the NCAA nationals. Both Jack Nyquist and Ryan Fox went to the mens national meet while Elissa Dawson joined Michole Timm at the national meet for women. Nyquist earned All-America honors in both one- and three-meter diving, the first Tar Heel diver to be an All-America in two different events since 1948.  On the womens side, Dawson was an All-America in 10-meter platform diving and Timm on the three-meter board.  No Tar Heel womens diver had been named an All-America in 23 years.  In addition, all three Tar Heel womens diving records were shattered. This past summer Nyquist was named to the U.S. team which competed at the World University Games in Russia.  He was the first UNC diver in history to represent the U.S. in an international event. In his first year as Carolinas diving coach his competitors reached new heights.  Freshman Jack Nyquist was a finalist in two events at the ACC Championships, making the awards podium in the one-meter event.  Nyquist went on to earn honorable mention All-America honors in three-meter diving at the NCAA Championships.  Nyquist also set the school record in one-meter diving as a freshman. That was only the beginning for the Tar Heel diving program which excelled at an even higher level during the summer of 2014. At U.S. Diving Nationals in Knoxville, Tenn. in August 2014, the Tar Heel women finished third as a team and the Tar Heel men placed ninth.  As a combined team, Carolina finished fifth.  The Tar Heels accomplished all this with only four divers competing at U.S. Nationals - Ozzie Moyer, Michole Timm, Jack Nyquist and Elissa Dawson. Nyquist finaled in two events on the mens side while Dawson was a finalist in three events and Timm in one for the women.  Nyquist took fourth place in mens three-meter synchronized diving and was fifth in the mens three-meter competition.  Moyer also qualified for U.S. Nationals. Dawson also excelled for the Tar Heels at U.S. Diving Nationals.  She placed third in three-meter diving and sixth in one-meter.  Earlier in the summer, Dawson won the Junior National championship in three-meter synchronized diving and was a finalist in one-meter, three-meter and platform diving.  Timm also competed at U.S. Nationals, making the finals in the three-meter event. Sánchez came to Chapel Hill from the University of New Mexico where he had served as the diving coach since October 2004. At New Mexico, he was the 2011 and 2012 Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year.  He coached six Mountain West Conference champions, two NCAA All-Americas, 37 MWC finalists and three performers who won MWC Diver of the Year accolades.  He coached divers who have been either finalists or medalists at the World University Games, the Commonwealth Games, the Canadian Nationals and the Russian Nationals. In 2012-13, Sánchez coached a diving squad that included six All-Mountain West Conference performers on the one-meter, three-meter and platform events. All six divers qualified for the 2013 NCAA Zone E Diving Championships.  His divers set the highest scores in the Mountain West Conference for the season.  Michole Timm qualified to the NCAA National Championship. A standout diver in Ann Arbor as a collegian at the University of Michigan, Sánchez was a four-time All-America (twice first team, twice honorable mention) and an Academic All-America.  He placed in the Top 10 at the NCAA Championships twice, finishing as high as fourth. Sánchez was also a five-time All-Big Ten Conference honoree. He won two silver medals at the conference championships in his career and helped Michigan to four consecutive Big 10 titles and a national championship for the Maize and Blue in 1995. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications in 1995 from the U of M.  He also holds a masters degree in architecture from New Mexico that was earned in 2011. After his collegiate career ended, Sánchez continued to dive, training with Olympic coach Kenny Armstrong, Jay Lerew and Olympian and world champion Janet Ely-Lagourgue. Sánchez went on to represent Peru, his fathers home country, on three-meter springboard and platform at the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. Sánchez qualified for the Olympics after claiming silver medals on one-meter and three-meter springboards and the 10-meter platform at the South American Championships. He was an eight-time finalist at the U.S. Diving Nationals, and a five-time finalist in the FINA Grand Prix circuit. Sánchez joined the Lobos after coaching the Mission Viejo (Calif.) Nadadores Diving Team.  Previously he served as a member of coaching staffs at Team Orlando Diving (Fla), LEquipe Diving (Irvine, Calif.) and The Woodlands Diving Academy (Texas). Sánchez, a Holland, Mich., native, is married to Leanne and the couple has two daughters, Bryze (10) and Maizie (8), and a son, Rio (5). 5 NCAA All-Americas including UNCs Jack Nyquist, Elissa Dawson and Michole Timm 1 FISU - World University Games Finalist 2015 World University Games Participant - Jack Nyquist 1 Silver Medalist - Commonwealth Games 33 Academic All-Conference Award Winners 6 Mountain West Conference Champions 43 Mountain West Conference Finalists 31 Mountain West Conference Athlete of the Week Awards 3 Mountain West Conference Diver of the Year Awards 1 Senior Athlete of the Year Recognition Award Awarded by MWC 2 Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year Awards 2011 UNM Faculty of Color Award for UNM Staff 2 USA National Finalists 2 FINA GP Finalists 4 Canadian National Finalists 2 Russian National Finalists