HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, September 20. BOB Gillett, formerly of Arizona Desert Fox (AFOX), has been named the new head coach for the Golden West Swim Club. Gillett founded AFOX in 1972 and coached the team for the past 25 years at the Arizona Sports Ranch in Phoenix, Ariz.<\/p>\n
Over the years, AFOX produced many great swimmers. The most notable came with Misty Hyman, who won 11 National Championships in the 100 and 200 butterfly. Hyman swam one of the greatest American Olympic efforts in history when she upset Susie O'Neil of Australia to become the 2000 Olympic Champion in the 200 fly. <\/p>\n
This past summer, four of Gillett\u2019s swimmers qualified for Olympic Trials: Katherine Raatz (200 free-2:01.55), Christa Riggins (200 free-2:02.11), Alexandra Clarke (800 free-8:50.43) and Buddy Turner (100 free-51.51). <\/p>\n
Gillett was the founding President of NCSA (National Club Swimming Association) in 2001. The organization led the effort to bring back the Junior National Championships in this country. After USA Swimming dropped Junior Nationals in 1999, many of the club coaches felt that they had lost a major part of their system to develop elite 18-and-under swimmers. NCSA sponsored Junior National Championships from 2002-06. USA Swimming has now taken back over the Summer Junior Nationals, but NCSA still sponsors a much needed Spring NCSA Junior National Championships. As the former President, Gillett is still a member of the Board of Directors of the NCSA. <\/p>\n
NCSA plans to sponsor the 2007 Spring Junior Nationals, and to make it a tremendous success with a selection meet for an NCSA All-Star Team that will have an international travel opportunity.<\/p>\n
"I think Southern California is the greatest swimming environment in the world,\u201d Gillett said. \u201cI have wanted to coach over here as long as I can remember. I am finally getting my chance and am looking forward to contributing to fast swimming and the development of elite swimmers, along side of all of the other great programs and coaches in this area."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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