USA Swimming Selects Gregg Troy and Teri McKeever As Head Coaches for 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 6. USA Swimming named Gregg Troy (Gainesville, Fla.) and Teri McKeever (El Cerrito, Calif.) as head coaches for the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships. In addition, USA Swimming also selected Mike Gobrecht (Camp Hill, Pa.) as the head coach for the 2010 Open Water World Championships team.

The 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships will take place August 18-22 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatic Center in Irvine, Calif., and will feature top swimmers from the U.S., Australia, Canada and Japan. The event marks the first time in 15 years that the U.S. will host the elite international competition. The 2010 Open Water World Championships will take place July 17-23 in Roberval, Quebec, Canada.

University of Florida head coach Troy will serve as the Pan Pacific Championships men's head coach for the first time this summer. Troy, who has coached the Gators since 1998, is a two-time Olympic assistant coach (2008, 1996) and was the head coach at the 2008 Short Course World Championships. He has also been part of the coaching staff at four Long Course World Championships (1997, 2001, 2005, 2007) and is a two-time NCAA men's coach of the year (2004, 2002).

McKeever will serve at the Pan Pacific Championships women's head coach for the second time, following her head coaching stint for the women's team in 2006. She is a two-time Olympic assistant coach (2004, 2008) and a three-time Long Course World Championship assistant coach (2007, 2005, 2003). As the head women's coach at the University of California – Berkeley, Mckeever was named the 2009 NCAA Women's Coach of the Year after leading the Golden Bears' to their first NCAA team championship. McKeever became the first woman coach to be credited with an NCAA swimming and diving team title.

"Teri and Gregg are without question, two of the best swimming coaches in the nation," said Mark Schubert, USA Swimming's national team head coach and general manager. "As highly-decorated NCAA coaches with a depth of international experience, our pool team could not ask for better leadership at the year's most important international competition."

Mike Gobrecht has been a coach with the West Shore YMCA since 1989. He was head coach at the 2009 FINA Open Water 10K World Cup in Roberval, Quebec, Canada and coached the West Shore YMCA to the women's national YMCA title (long course) in 2008. In addition, Gobrecht has served as an assistant coach at the Junior Pan Pacs in 2007, the FINA World Youth Games in 2006, and at several national select camps.

The 2010 U.S. Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships team will be selected from performances at the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships in Irvine, Calif., August 3-7. The 2010 Open Water World Championships team will be chosen from the top finishers at the 2010 10K Open Water National Championships and National Team Trials in Long Beach, Calif. on June 4.

The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are held under the oversight of the Pan Pacific Swimming Association. The Association was established in the mid 1980s and is made up of the four founding swimming federations – Swimming Australia, Swimming Canada, the Japan Amateur Swimming Federations and USA Swimming. These charter nations developed the concept of a biennial swimming competition to provide their national teams with first class international competition between the two major international swimming competitions – the Olympic Games and the FINA World Championships.

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