John Klinge Promoted to Associate Head Coach at Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23. FIFTH-year men's swimming assistant coach John Klinge has been elevated to the position of associate head coach, Bill Wadley, men's swimming head coach, announced Friday.

"John Klinge has had a tremendous impact on our program over the last four years," Wadley said. "He has provided leadership in recruiting, in our dry-land training and administratively, and he has a great rapport with the student-athletes."

Klinge has helped the Buckeyes to back-to-back Top 20 finishes at the past two NCAA championships: 12th in 2007 and 16th in 2008.

"John has made that a total commitment to our program and the results are obvious," Wadley said.

Klinge joined the Ohio State team prior to the start of the 2004-05 season after serving as the head coach at both Bozeman High School and Bozeman Barracuda Swim Club in Bozeman, Mont. During his tenure at Bozeman, Klinge coached multiple National Age Group Top 16, Junior National, United States Open and high school All-America swimmers. Klinge also is well trained in teaching proper employment of drills and stroke technique.

Klinge is a 1994 graduate of Purdue University. While at Purdue he qualified for the 1992 United States Olympic Trials and earned United States swimming All-America honors in 1991. Klinge also was awarded All-Big Ten honors in both 1990 and 1994. He graduated from Purdue with a bachelor's of science in civil engineering.

Klinge also is a commissioned officer for the United States Marine Corp. He has received two Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medals for various outstanding performances.

Klinge is married to the former Chris Anderson who also swam for Purdue University and is currently a coach of Dublin Swim Club. They have two young sons, Jack and Matthew.

Special thanks to Ohio State for contributing this report.

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