United States Naval Academy Women's Swimming

Morrison has guided the Mids to a 110-29 record and either first (seven) or second-place finishes at the Patriot League meet 11 times in his 12 seasons. He has been tabbed as the Patriot League Coach of the Year six times and as the ECAC Coach of the Year three times. Navy has compiled a 17-4 record over the last two seasons with those losses coming to Georgia Tech, North Carolina (two) and Penn State defeated Army West Point for the 26th and 27th-straight times, respectively, won a pair of Patriot League Championships and placed second both years at the ECAC Championship. Mids have won 27 of the 36 swimming events at the last two Patriot League meets to help them run their streak of consecutive league crowns won to five in a row. The Mids compiled a 5-4 record during the 2013-14 regular season, with three of their losses coming to nationally-ranked teams Virginia, Penn State and North Carolina. In addition to winning the Patriot League crown, Navy also won the ECAC Championship Meet. One year prior (2012-13), Navy posted a 7-3 record during the regular season on its way to winning the Patriot League title. The team suffered its lone losses to North Carolina, Virginia and Penn State, teams that went on to place 12th, 18th and 29th, respectively, at the NCAA Championship. The 2012-13 season came one year after the Mids scored a league-record 933.5 points to win the programs 10th Patriot League title in 2012, won its first ECAC championship and qualified a trio of Mids for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. The 2009-10 season was a record-breaking campaign for the Mids. After posting a 10-1 record during the regular season, with Navys lone loss coming to No. 11 Virginia, the Mids totaled 14 event victories on their way to winning the Patriot League title for the first time in three years. Additionally, 2010 graduates Tara Chapmon and Thuy-Mi Dinh made their second and third, respectively, appearances at the NCAAChampionship in 2010. Navy also posted the programs first undefeated season during the 2008-09 campaign, part of a winning streak that would span to 25 meets before the aforementioned loss to the Cavaliers in the 2009-10 season. Individually, a Navy swimmer has earned at least a share of nine league swimmer-of-the-year accolades during Morrisons 12 years, while the Mids have won a league-best 113 swimming event titles at the Patriot League Championship the remainder of the league has won 106 event titles under his guidance. The program also has made strides at national events during Morrisons tenure. Navy swimmers are regular participants in U.S. Swimming meets such as the USA Short Course National Championship, ConocoPhillips National Championship and the World Championship Trials. The 2008 season saw Dinh become the first womens swimmer in Patriot League history to attain an A cut qualifying time for the NCAAChampionship, then she and Chapmon advanced to the national meet in both 2009 and 10. Laura Gorinski competed in a trio of individual events at the NCAA Championship when she did so in the 2012 edition of the meet. Lauren Barber became the first freshman womens swimmer in school and league history to qualify for the NCAA Division I Championship when she was invited to compete at the 2016 edition of the national meet. The Mids also have been well represented at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials during the Morrison era. Most recently, Barber, Ellen Bradford, Dinh, Kenzie Margroum and Charlotte Meyer all competed for the 2016 selection meet. In addition to the teams success in the water, the program under Morrison has been regularly recognized as an Academic All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America and has accounted for 112 placings on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll over the last 12 seasons. These recipients include Kelly Zahalka, Gorinski and Bradford, all of whom have not only been selected as the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for their sport, but also earned Academic All-America accolades. Morrisons hiring in 2004 returned him to The Yard where he served as an assistant coach to Dick Purdy for four seasons beginning in the fall of 1993. The Purdy-Morrison duo coached the Mids to a 33-14 record and to league titles during each of its four years together. After leaving Navy following the 1996-97 school year, Morrison served as a volunteer assistant mens coach at Tennessee during the 1997-98 season in which the Volunteers placed fourth at the NCAAChampionship, followed by one year as an assistant at Rutgers. After serving as the head coach and aquatics director at the Ocean County YMCA in his hometown of Toms River, N.J., for two years starting in 1999, he was named as the head swimming coach at Lehigh in 2001. Morrison coached the program to a combined 31-27 record during his three seasons there, a period highlighted by the mens team winning the 2002 Patriot League title. A successful athlete in his own right, Morrison earned four letters in swimming and in golf while a student-athlete at Toms River High School and was selected as a member of the schools inaugural Hall of Fame class in the spring of 2004. He would go on to earn four letters in swimming at North Carolina, helping the Tar Heels win a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference titles in the process. Morrison would enter the coaching ranks in 1991 as an assistant swimming coach at Washington &Lee where he helped coach four NCAADivision IIIAll-Americans. He also assisted with the schools 1992 water polo team that won the Division IIIEastern Championship and served as the interim golf coach. Morrison and his wife, Amy, have a 17-year-old son, John, and a 13-year-old daughter, Avery Grace.

MacDonald himself was selected as the leagues diving coach of the year. Additionally, Mayo, Ben Freedman and D.J. Principato qualified for the NCAA Zone A Championship. That success continued in his second season as his six divers scored points in all 18 of their respective events, which led to MacDonald again being named as the leagues coach of the year. Individually, Nate Belch won both boards at the Patriot League Championship to be tabbed as the leagues diver of the year, Joe Esposito was the runner-up on the three meter, Julie Jesse won the leagues one-meter board and Amanda Zerphy placed second on the three meter. Additionally, each of those four divers competed at the 2015 NCAA Zone A Diving Championship. Navys divers had another successful season in 2015-16. On the mens side, freshman Joe Kaszubowski was tabbed as the diver of the year in the league after winning the three meter and finishing in second place on the one meter, with Belch claiming the one-meter title and placing second on the three meter. Jesse was selected as the womens diver of the league after she won the three-meter board and placed third in the one-meter competition. Jesse (two events), Belch (two events), Love (two events) and Kaszubowski (three events) all competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championship, with Kaszubowski advancing to the NCAA Championship in the platform diving event. MacDonald arrived at Navy in the summer of 2013 after having served as the head diving coach at Virginia for the previous four seasons. One of his divers advanced to the NCAA Championship in each of his last two seasons. Briggy Imbriglia placed 13th on the platform at the 2012 national championship while J.B. Kolod placed 12th on the three meter the highest finish in an event by a Virginia diver at the meet in school history in 2013. The two are the lone Virginia divers to have earned NCAA All-America recognition. Additionally, a minimum of three Virginia divers qualified for the NCAA Zone Championship meet in each of his four years, with all nine of his divers advancing to the 2013 event. Virginia swept the mens and womens Atlantic Coast Conference swimming and diving team titles and recorded a combined seven top-20 showings in the final team standings at the respective NCAA Championship meets during MacDonalds four-year stint. A 1997 graduate of Rhode Island, MacDonald began serving as the diving coach at his alma mater immediately upon his graduating from the school. He would coach a pair of conference champions and three NCAA Zone Championship meet qualifiers in his three seasons at Rhode Island. MacDonald then became the first full-time diving coach in East Carolina history when he accepted the position in 2000. He guided at least one diver to the NCAA Zone Championship meet in all but one of his nine seasons at the school. Additionally, MacDonalds divers broke every school diving record during his stint at the school, he saw eight of his divers final in multiple events at the conference championship and he coached Christie Icenhower to the 2005 Conference USA Freshman Diver-of-the-Year award. In addition to his 19 years of coaching on the collegiate level, MacDonald has also spent considerable time coaching on the club level. This includes six years at the Fort Washington Swim Club in his hometown of Fort Washington, Pa., nine years at the Emerald City Dive Club in Greenville, N.C., and four years as the founder, owner and head coach of the Wahoo Diving Club in Charlottesville, Va. MacDonald and his wife, Christie, are the parents of Bryan, who will turn two in early 2017.

Lias time on The Yard, while winning seven Patriot League title and placing second at the meet on three occasions in his nine years. Lias himself was selected as a 2012 Honorable Mention Assistant Coach of the Year by CollegeSwimming.com. Additionally, Lias served as the stroke coach for 2008 and 16 U.S. Olympic Trials competitor and three-time NCAAChampionship qualifier Thuy-Mi Dinh. Lias, who serves as Navys recruiting coordinator and designs the teams dryland and strength program, came to Navy after two seasons as a graduate assistant coach for the mens and womens programs at Auburn. After the mens team won the NCAAchampionship during his initial 2004-05 season, both teams claimed national titles during his final year at the school. He began his coaching career during the summer of 2002 when he served as a volunteer assistant coach at New Paltz High School. After one season on the prep level, he moved on to the collegiate ranks as an assistant at Mount Union College. A 2000 graduate of Mount Union, Lias was a four-year letterwinner for the Raiders and served as the team captain during his senior year. He earned his way onto All-Ohio Athletic Conference teams 13 times during his career, won a pair of individual event conference titles (1999 in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events) and was named as the team MVP during his junior and senior years. In addition to his coaching experience, Lias also has run technique based swimming camps across the country through Total Immersion Swimming, Inc. Lias and his wife, Courtney, have sons, Cameron, who will turn four in October, and Grady, who will turn two in December.