CSCAA Announces 2011 Awards

EVANSTON, Illinois, May 11. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America is pleased to announce the 2011 recipients of its most prestigious awards. These awards will be presented during the Awards Banquet of the 2011 CSCAA Convention being held in San Diego May 19-21, 2011 at the Bahia Resort Hotel. The Awards Banquet is the highlight of the Convention and will take place at 7PM Saturday May 21st. Award winners include Gregg Parini of Denison University, Harvey Humphries of the University of Georgia, Susan Teeter of Princeton University, David Roach of Colgate University and Frank Comfort of the University of North Carolina.

A description of the Awards and a brief biography of the recipients are below.

The CSCAA Board of Directors and its members congratulate all the 2011 Award recipients

National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy:
In 1957 the College Swimming Coaches of America became the recipient and administrator of the Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy through an anonymous donor. The National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy, is the highest award of its kind in the United States. It is presented to an individual or organization for having contributed in an outstanding way to swimming as a competitive sport and healthful recreational activity at schools and colleges.

This year's winner is Gregg Parini Head Coach Denison University
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The Denison men's swimming & diving program has become synonymous with success at the national level and behind that success over the past 24 years has been head coach Gregg Parini.

Since taking over both Denison programs in the fall of 1986, Parini has gone on to build one of the most consistently successful programs in the history of Division III athletics. Under Parini's watch his teams have captured two national championships, 12 national runner-up finishes in addition to Denison's current streak of 48 consecutive top-10 national finishes.

An eight-time NCAA National Coach of the Year, Parini is coming off one of his
greatest achievements to date, as the DU men recently snapped Kenyon College's 31-year streak of national championships in March at the 2011 NCAA Division III Championship from Knoxville. The Big Red ended the streak by rallying from 36 points down on the final day only to win by one point, which was the closest finish in the history of the NCAA swimming & diving championship.
The national championship was the second of Parini's career. The first came in 2001 when his women's squad snapped Kenyon's streak of 17-consecutive national titles in Buffalo, N.Y.

At the conference level, Parini has coached Denison to eight conference titles and has earned the North Coast Athletic Conference coach of the year award, 14 times. DU has produced over 250 All-Americans that have racked up nearly 2,000 All-American swims. Twenty-two Denison swimmers and divers have been awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and in 2004, former Denison swimmer Darius Grigaliunas swam in the Olympics as a member of the Lithuanian team.

In addition to his success in the coaching ranks, Parini's career as an educator and Associate Professor at Denison has been equally impressive. In 2007 he was awarded the Charles A. Brickman Teaching Excellence Award which is given annually to one faculty member who has demonstrated a vibrant interest in the learning process, as well as an understanding of teaching as a continuously evolving art form: someone who embraces the teaching and mentoring of students, not just as a profession, but as a calling.
Parini began his coaching career in 1984 as a volunteer assistant women's coach at Michigan State University where he earned his master's in counseling psychology. Since then he has held coaching positions for the Upper Arlington Swim Club, Mount Union College and East Lansing High School.

He is a 1982 graduate of Kenyon College where he was a member of Jim Steen's first national championship team in 1979. A tri-captain for the 1981-82 season, he led the team to its third NCAA crown in as many years. Parini was an 18-time All-American, a seven-time Division III National Champion, and left Kenyon with five national records. He was voted the team's most valuable swimmer in 1981 and Senior Athlete of the Year in 1982 by the Lords athletic department. In May of 2002 he was inducted into Kenyon College's Athletic Hall of Fame.

In addition to his coaching efforts, Parini has also made an impact in the community of Granville. He is the founder, owner and director of The Swimming Clinic, a clinic for age-group swimmers. He is a volunteer Youth Baseball and Hockey coach for both the Granville Recreation Commission and the Newark Ice Hockey Association. He has served as a Youth Group Leader for the Trinity Episcopal Church. Also in Granville, he is the co-founder and co-director of the Red, White and Hoops Basketball Tournament for the Granville Recreation Commission.

Parini is currently a member of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, the American Swimming Coaches Association, United States Swimming and the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association. He resides in Granville with his wife, Alice, and is the father of six sons; Joseph, Solomon, Gabe, Andrew, Ted and Simon.

Richard E. Steadman Award
Richard E. Steadman was a former President of the CSCAA and was active in the College Forum for over 50 years. Steadman demonstrated a caring and loving relationship for his fellow coaches and athletes, which he maintained throughout his career. The Richard E. Steadman award is conferred annually to a swimming or diving coach in high school, club, or university ranks who, in the opinion of the CSCAA, has done the most to spread happiness in Coach Steadman's beloved sport of swimming and diving.

This year's winner is Harvey Humphries Associate Head Coach University of Georgia

Associate Head Coach Harvey Humphries just completed his 30th year on the Georgia staff and his 36th year as a member of the program (including four years as a letterman and two years as a graduate assistant).

Humphries is involved in all facets of the swimming program at Georgia, including concentration with the distance swimmers and recruiting coordinator.

In 2011, Humphries' distance swimmers continued to shine with Allison Schmitt and Wendy Trott winning national titles in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle, respectively at the NCAA Championships. At the SECs, Trott won the 1,650 freestyle and Shannon Vreeland took the 500 freestyle for the women, while Martin Grodzki won the men's 1,650 freestyle title.

In recent years, Humphries has coached additional national champions in Sebastien Rouault, Troyden Prinsloo and Laura Conway. Rouault ended his career with three NCAA titles, a school-record nine SEC crowns (including a clean sweep of the 500 and 1,650 free races), and the Georgia marks in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 events.

For his contributions to the sport of swimming as both an athlete and a coach, Humphries was inducted into the state of Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame in 2002.

Humphries also has served as a coach for U.S. Swimming (USS) select camps and Zone District camps and is currently on the international trip list as a level five coach for the NCAA and USS.

Humphries has turned Athens Bulldog Swim Club into a clearinghouse for the some of the South's top talent. Under his guidance, ABSC swimmers have won numerous individual titles at the Georgia State Meet, Southern Sectionals, Junior Nationals, Senior Nationals and the World University Games. He has served as a coach for USS select camps, the U.S. National Team Distance Camp, and the U.S. Olympic Festival team. His colleagues have voted him three times as the Georgia Senior Coach of the Year.

Humphries also has served as senior chairman for age-group swimming in Georgia and was the first recipient of the Walt Schluetter Award, given annually to top national age-group coaches.

Humphries graduated from Georgia in 1979 with a B.S. degree in microbiology. He and his wife Wendy have a son Billy and a daughter Pirie Anne.

Speedo Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded to the individual whose efforts best exemplify the integrity and ideals of collegiate swimming and who has achieved significant success in the sport while still imparting the educational and character building qualities of the collegiate swimming experience.
This year's winner is Susan Teeter Head Coach Princeton Women

Susan Teeter proudly uses the word "Tradition" as a way to remind the Princeton women's swimmers and divers that they are part of something far greater than just their own individual performances. The foundation of that tradition has been laid through Teeter's dedication and hard work over 27 seasons at Princeton. She has created a culture of excellence both in and out of the pool throughout her nearly three decades in Orange and Black.

In 2011, Teeter led Princeton to another perfect regular season and the program's 10th Ivy League title in the last 12 years. During her career, Teeter has won 15 league championships, 190 dual victories and possesses a winning percentage better than .800. Princeton has had two regular season win streaks of greater than 35 over the last 12 years, including a program-record 47-meet streak from 2000-04. She has coached several All-Americas, including 13-time honoree Alicia Aemisegger '09, named Princeton's Female Athlete of the Decade by GoPrincetonTigers.com.

In 2000, the parents of her senior class established the Susan S. Teeter Award, which is given annually to the senior class swimmer who distinguishes herself as an outstanding student and a valuable member of the team. They said that it was done because those were the ideals that Susan had instilled in their daughters during their college career.

Teeter was also a founder of "The Summit" in 1996, a group formed to empower and develop women coaches in swimming. She continues to organize, develop, and transform The Summit each year for the personal and professional growth of its members. Recently, the women's swimming & diving program has organized a "Collegians for the Cure" 5K on the Princeton campus; the most recent run/walk, held in 2010, raised more than $1,700 in the fight against cancer.

Daktronics' Ben Franklin Award
Awarded to the individual, or organization, whose efforts best promote the integrity and enhancement of the student-athlete ideal.
This Year's winner is David Roach Director of Athletics Colgate University

After a successful coaching stint at the University of Tennessee, where his women's swimming teams won 85 percent of their meets and improved from 39th to 4th at the NCAA Division I Championship and was twice named SEC Coach of the Year, Roach returned to Brown, where he spent eight years (1978-86) as the women's swimming coach. In eight years at the helm of the Brown women's swimming program, Roach took the Bears into the national spotlight. Roach guided Brown to conference championships in 1983, 1984 and 1985. Roach was named the 13th athletics director at Brown University in 1990. He was responsible for revitalizing the Brown athletics program.
Roach was a member of the NCAA Championship Competition Cabinet for five years (1997-2002), and was the chair of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Committee from 2002 to 2004. Roach is the former president of the I-AA Athletic Directors Association (2001-2002) and the former chair of the I-AA AD's Academic All-Star Team Selection Committee. In 1999, he received the Gen. Robert Neyland Award from the All-America Football Foundation.

Roach was appointed Colgate University's director of athletics in July 2004. In July of 2010, Roach was elected president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

He and his wife, Anne, are the parents of three daughters: Elizabeth, Michelle and Alexandra
Charles McCaffree Award
Presented annually to an individual linked to collegiate aquatic sport who has achieved outstanding success in life and has contributed greatly to society and, or aquatics.

This year's winner: Frank Comfort University of North Carolina (retired)

The University of North Carolina's head coach since 1977 and one of the most successful coaches in collegiate swimming history retired after the 2006-07 season following Comfort's 30th year as the head coach at UNC and his 40th year overall as a college coach.

In 2004-05, Comfort passed legendary Yale coach Bob Kipputh to become the winningest coach in dual meet competition. Comfort enters his final season with 565 dual meet wins – 303 on the men's side and 262 on the women's side. Comfort began his coaching career at UNC in 1966-67 as the freshman swimming

coach. Comfort was the head coach at Johns Hopkins from 1968-77. In nine seasons there, the Blue Jays' men's squad went 82-26. Comfort led the Blue Jays to the men's NCAA Division III title in 1977 after second-place finishes in 1975 and 1976. Comfort's swimmers at Hopkins won 12 NCAA individual titles and one NCAA relay team title. He was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Athletic Hall of Fame on September 13, 1997.

Frank's effort to engage the North Carolina Swimming Alumni and endow scholarships has been used as a model of how to preserve Swimming programs across the country. Besides advising the CSCAA on this issue Comfort has made presentations on his endowment program as part of the coach education program at the CSCAA Conventions.

In addition the CSCAA will recognize the following milestones in Coaching:

15 Years
Kelly Nordell, Iowa State
Matt Tallman, Notre Dame

20 Years
Doug Boyd, Texas A&M
Bill Dorenkott, Ohio State
Robert Hauck, St. Olaf
Kurt Kirner, Hillsdale
Ted Knapp, Stanford
Bill Tramel, University of Minnesota

25 Years
Monty Hopkins, University of Cincinnati

30 Years
Steve Collins, Southern Methodist

35 Years
Nancy Bigelow, Tufts University
Anne Goodman James, Colorado College
Ed Gurka, William Patterson
Paula Miler, Ithaca College

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