Washington State University Women's Swimming

Jager brought this mindset into his fifth season at the helm of Washington State University swimming. Washington State Head Coach Tom Jager led the 2015-16 WSU swim team to a winning dual-meet record for the second-straight year. The Cougars finished 8-2 in dual meets, including six-straight dual-meet victories. Jager led the Cougars to a seventh-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, the highest finish for Cougar swimming since 2011. In the process, Washington State defeated Pac-12 foes Arizona State, Oregon State and Utah. The Cougars earned victories over three different conference opponents for the second time in school history.   Last season, the Cougars set 33 WSU all-time top-10 performances during their 2015-2016 campaign. Jager led the Cougars to four record-breaking performances during the 2014-15 season. At the Pac-12 Championships, Feb. 24-27, junior Addisynn Bursch broke two school records. The first was in the 200 IM clocking a time of 1:59.87, while the second came in the 400 IM where she touched the wall in 4:15.51. WSUs 800 free relay team of Addisynn Bursch, Elise Locke, Rachel Thompson and Jasmine Margetts broke the school record at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 7:18.03. The Cougars 200 medley relay team of Haley Rose Love, Frederikke Hall Anna Brolin and Hannah Bruggman broke the school record finishing in 1:39.13. In addition, senior Presley Wetterstrom notched a school record in the 800 free, clocking a time of 2:11.24 at the Ohio State Invitational.   Jager encourages his student-athletes to be successful both in and out of the pool, which is exemplified in the teams performance in the classroom. Nine Cougar swimmers were named to the Pac-12 All-Academic teams, including two student-athletes on the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team. In Jagers five years, the Cougars have boasted 47 Pac-12 All-Academic honors, including 14 Pac-12 Conference All-Academic First Team members.   In 2014-15, Jager led the Cougars to an eighth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships. The year was highlighted by dual meet wins over Arizona State, Oregon State and Utah. Four WSU school record breakings performances At the Hawkeye Invitational, Dec. 5-7, junior Presley Wetterstrom clocked a lifetime best of 2:12.96 in the 200 breast and set a school record. WSUs 200 free relay team of Alison Mand, Hannah Bruggman, Nicole Proulx and Haley Rose Love broke the school record twice over the course of the season. At the Hawkeye Invitational the team finished in 1:31.56 before besting the record once more at the Pac-12 Championships, Feb. 25-28, with a time of 1:31.09. In addition, senior Nicole Proulx closed her WSU career with a school record in the 100 free, clocking a time of 49.75.   Jager led the Cougars to an eighth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships in 2013-14, their best finish since a seventh-place finish in 2011. The Cougars 200 medley relay team of Emma Johansson, Frederikke Hall, Alison Mand and Nicole Proulx broke the school record at the Championships, in a time of 1:39.45. The finish was one of two record-setting finishes by WSU on the season, as the relay team of Emma Johansson, Alison Mand, Haley Rose Love and Anne Kenney finished the 200 free relay at the Hawkeye Invitational in 1:31.66 seconds. In addition, five individual swimmers received the CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-America Award in 2013-14.   During Jagers second campaign with the Cougars, WSU finished 6-6 in dual meets. The Cougars placed ninth at the Pac-12 Championships. Loree Olson highlighted the season by becoming the Cougar all-time record holder in the 400 IM. Olson also placed second all-time on the Washington State records list in the 200 back. Emma Johansson placed in the top three of the Cougar all-time lists in the 50 free, 100 back and 100 butterfly. Shelbi Luchini notched the third-best time in Cougar history in the 200 back, as did Kelly Tannhauser in the 400 IM. A total of eight Cougar swimmers made the Cougar all-time top-10 lists.   In his first season with the Cougars, Jager led the team to two dual meet victories. The Cougars took ninth place at the Pac-12 Championships, qualifying for 16 (2013-21, 2014-25) spots in evening sessions, including a 21st-place finish by Shelbi Luchini in the 400 IM with a time of a 4:21.18, landing her second on the WSU all-time list.   Jager was named to the Pac-12 Men's Swimming Olympic Sports All-Century Team in 2016 for his success in the water. A 1987 graduate of UCLA, Jager joined the program in May 2011 after seven seasons as the head coach at the University of Idaho. Jager took charge of the Vandal program in January 2004, reviving the Idaho program that had been dormant for nearly two decades. He also helped into diving to the school beginning in the 2008-09 season.   A native of Collinsville, Ill., Jager earned six NCAA championships, including five individual, and two Olympic gold medals (1984) as a member of relay teams by the time he graduated from UCLA. He added two gold medals on relay teams and a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1988 Olympic Games. In 1992, he closed out his Olympic career with a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle. Jager is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame and the USA Swim Team of the Century. He is a former captain of the U.S. national team, won 11 national titles and held the 50-meter freestyle world record three times, including a 10-year run from 1990-2000.   Jager and his wife, Becky, have two sons, Wyatt and Cy.   Tom Jager carries the philosophy that honesty, plus respect, plus punctuality equals integrity. Jager brought this mindset into his fifth season at the helm of Washington State University swimming. Washington State Head Coach Tom Jager led the 2015-16 WSU swim team to a winning dual-meet record for the second-straight year. The Cougars finished 8-2 in dual meets, including six-straight dual-meet victories. Jager led the Cougars to a seventh-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, the highest finish for Cougar swimming since 2011. In the process, Washington State defeated Pac-12 foes Arizona State, Oregon State and Utah. The Cougars earned victories over three different conference opponents for the second time in school history.   Last season, the Cougars set 33 WSU all-time top-10 performances during their 2015-2016 campaign. Jager led the Cougars to four record-breaking performances during the 2014-15 season. At the Pac-12 Championships, Feb. 24-27, junior Addisynn Bursch broke two school records. The first was in the 200 IM clocking a time of 1:59.87, while the second came in the 400 IM where she touched the wall in 4:15.51. WSUs 800 free relay team of Addisynn Bursch, Elise Locke, Rachel Thompson and Jasmine Margetts broke the school record at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 7:18.03. The Cougars 200 medley relay team of Haley Rose Love, Frederikke Hall Anna Brolin and Hannah Bruggman broke the school record finishing in 1:39.13. In addition, senior Presley Wetterstrom notched a school record in the 800 free, clocking a time of 2:11.24 at the Ohio State Invitational.   Jager encourages his student-athletes to be successful both in and out of the pool, which is exemplified in the teams performance in the classroom. Nine Cougar swimmers were named to the Pac-12 All-Academic teams, including two student-athletes on the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team. In Jagers five years, the Cougars have boasted 47 Pac-12 All-Academic honors, including 14 Pac-12 Conference All-Academic First Team members.   In 2014-15, Jager led the Cougars to an eighth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships. The year was highlighted by dual meet wins over Arizona State, Oregon State and Utah. Four WSU school record breakings performances At the Hawkeye Invitational, Dec. 5-7, junior Presley Wetterstrom clocked a lifetime best of 2:12.96 in the 200 breast and set a school record. WSUs 200 free relay team of Alison Mand, Hannah Bruggman, Nicole Proulx and Haley Rose Love broke the school record twice over the course of the season. At the Hawkeye Invitational the team finished in 1:31.56 before besting the record once more at the Pac-12 Championships, Feb. 25-28, with a time of 1:31.09. In addition, senior Nicole Proulx closed her WSU career with a school record in the 100 free, clocking a time of 49.75.   Jager led the Cougars to an eighth-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships in 2013-14, their best finish since a seventh-place finish in 2011. The Cougars 200 medley relay team of Emma Johansson, Frederikke Hall, Alison Mand and Nicole Proulx broke the school record at the Championships, in a time of 1:39.45. The finish was one of two record-setting finishes by WSU on the season, as the relay team of Emma Johansson, Alison Mand, Haley Rose Love and Anne Kenney finished the 200 free relay at the Hawkeye Invitational in 1:31.66 seconds. In addition, five individual swimmers received the CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-America Award in 2013-14.   During Jagers second campaign with the Cougars, WSU finished 6-6 in dual meets. The Cougars placed ninth at the Pac-12 Championships. Loree Olson highlighted the season by becoming the Cougar all-time record holder in the 400 IM. Olson also placed second all-time on the Washington State records list in the 200 back. Emma Johansson placed in the top three of the Cougar all-time lists in the 50 free, 100 back and 100 butterfly. Shelbi Luchini notched the third-best time in Cougar history in the 200 back, as did Kelly Tannhauser in the 400 IM. A total of eight Cougar swimmers made the Cougar all-time top-10 lists.   In his first season with the Cougars, Jager led the team to two dual meet victories. The Cougars took ninth place at the Pac-12 Championships, qualifying for 16 (2013-21, 2014-25) spots in evening sessions, including a 21st-place finish by Shelbi Luchini in the 400 IM with a time of a 4:21.18, landing her second on the WSU all-time list.   Jager was named to the Pac-12 Men's Swimming Olympic Sports All-Century Team in 2016 for his success in the water. A 1987 graduate of UCLA, Jager joined the program in May 2011 after seven seasons as the head coach at the University of Idaho. Jager took charge of the Vandal program in January 2004, reviving the Idaho program that had been dormant for nearly two decades. He also helped into diving to the school beginning in the 2008-09 season.   A native of Collinsville, Ill., Jager earned six NCAA championships, including five individual, and two Olympic gold medals (1984) as a member of relay teams by the time he graduated from UCLA. He added two gold medals on relay teams and a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1988 Olympic Games. In 1992, he closed out his Olympic career with a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle. Jager is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame and the USA Swim Team of the Century. He is a former captain of the U.S. national team, won 11 national titles and held the 50-meter freestyle world record three times, including a 10-year run from 1990-2000.   Jager and his wife, Becky, have two sons, Wyatt and Cy.  

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Jager served as the volunteer coach for the Idaho swim team from 2004-11 and has owned and operated the Gold Medal Swim Club and Camps in Pullman since 2004. Jager, coached her husband, WSU Head Coach Tom Jager, during his training for the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games where he earned a total of three gold medals during those games. Jager earned her PhD in history from the University of New Mexico in 2007 and spent the past five years as an assistant professor of history and a member of the American Indian studies faculty at Idaho. Jager specializes in topics such as Twentieth Century America, Sports History, Native American Studies and Gender.  She has been invited to speak at a number of seminars and has published several scholarly works, including  released in October, 2015.

Bruggman worked as an undergraduate assistant during the 2013-14 season as she completed her bachelors degree. Bruggman swam for Jager during her final two seasons of eligibility in 2011-12 and 2012-13. As a senior, helped led the team to victory over Seattle, placing second in the 100 and 200 butterfly. Bruggman clocked season-best times in the 50 free (23.76) and 100 free (51.93) at the Pac-12 Championships. As a junior, Bruggman took second in the 100 butterfly against Utah, and clocked a 55.90 in the 100 fly at the Pac-12 Championships, which ranked 10th at the time on the Washington State all-time list. A native of Wenatchee, Wash., Bruggmans mother Darcy competed for the Cougar swim team, while her younger sister, Hannah, is a junior on the WSU swim team.