Pete Morgan, Teri McKeever and Dick Fetters Inducted Into American Swim Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, September 12. THREE renowned coaches were added to the American Swim Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony tonight. Two of them are active coaches, while the other is enjoying the fruits of his labor after decades in collegiate coaching.

Pete Morgan, Nation’s Capital

From the Nation’s Capital website:
Pete Morgan helped start the Club in 1978. He came to the Club from the Solotar Swim team. He has been the Head Coach of the Club since 2004. Pete was named to the USA National Team Staff from 1986-1989 and from 1998 to 2013. He was the Head Men’s Coach for the Inaugural 2006 Junior Pan Pac in Hawaii and the Assistant Men’s Coach at the 2007 World Championships in Shanghai, China. He coached national team members Todd Dudley, Jarrod Marrs, Matt Brado, Olympic Gold Medalist Ed Moses, and Ellyn Baumgardner and Japan’s world-ranked Masami Tanaka. Iron Man triathlete Todd Jacobs, marathon swimming champion David Alleva, and Olympic Bronze Medalist Triathlete Susan “Bartholomew” Williams also trained with Pete. He is an ASCA Level 5 Coach.

Teri McKeever, University of California-Berkeley

From the Cal website:
Regarded as one of the best swimming mentors in the United States, Teri McKeever completed her 21st year as head coach of the University of California’s women’s swimming and diving program in 2012-13. The decorated coach led the talented Golden Bears to a second-place finish in the NCAA Championships and a third-place finish in the Pac-12 Championships. She coached freshman Elizabeth Pelton to the Swimmer of the Meet award at the NCAA Championships and watched as protégé Caitlin Leverenz concluded her college career by repeating as the NCAA champ in the 200-yard individual medley.

Earlier that season, McKeever signed the best recruiting class in the nation headlined by U.S. Olympic star Missy Franklin. The Bears’ boss later coached Franklin – and a bevy of other Cal stars – as a U.S. assistant coach at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona.

McKeever has taken the Cal program to new heights and is often regarded in the coaching circle as the sport’s influential innovator because of her unique training methods. Under McKeever’s tutelage, the Golden Bears have produced five Pac-10 Swimmers of the Year, including three-time winner Natalie Coughlin and 15 consecutive top-10 NCAA finishes. She has amassed an impressive 153-52 dual meet record in her tenure with Cal.

Prior to 2010-11, the 2008-09 season was the program’s best ever. McKeever coached Dana Vollmer to a spectacular end to her college career, as Vollmer was named the 2009 NCAA Swimmer of the Year and Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year and won the Honda Sports Award for Swimming. Cal produced three individual NCAA titles (Vollmer in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles and Amanda Sims in the 100 butterfly), two NCAA relay champions (400- and 800-free relays) and two American records (400- and 800-free relays) and scored its most points (411.5) at the NCAA meet in school history. Nine Bears emerged as All-Americans and two earned honorable mention All-America honors after NCAAs. The Bears also won five Pac-10 titles (Vollmer in the 100- and 200- frees; Lauren Boyle in the 1650 free; and the 400- and 800-free relays). Another McKeever pupil, freshman Liv Jensen, earned the Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year accolade.

The Cal coach is also widely renowned for her impact on the international scene. She was the first woman coach on the U.S. Olympic Swimming team and the first woman to be named head coach of the national team at a major international meet (the 2006 Pan Pacific meet in British Columbia). She also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. team during World Championship competition in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Other international coaching duties included assistant roles with the 2001 Goodwill Games and the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships.

The Southern California product graduated from USC in 1983 with a B.S. in education with two teaching credentials (multiple subject, secondary life science) and also earned a masters degree in athletic administration in 1987. McKeever’s father, Mike, was an All-American lineman for the Trojans’ football team in 1959. McKeever comes from a family of 10 children (she is the oldest), all with varied athletic backgrounds. Sisters Kristi and Kelli Gannon were members of the U.S. national field hockey team.

McKeever found greater happiness away from the pool when she married Jerry Romani in the spring of 2007.

Teri McKeever — Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott

Dick Fetters, Michigan State

Head men’s coach at Michigan State, 1970-1987.
Two top-three finishes at Big Ten conference championships (1970, 1977)
Athletes scored points at the NCAA championships 13 out of 18 seasons
Highest NCAA finish: 10th (1972)
Coached eight Big Ten champions
Started Beaufort Masters and was head coach for more than 20 years until retiring in 2011 at age 90

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