{"id":257284,"date":"2017-05-22T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=257284"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:25:57","slug":"arizona-head-coach-rick-demont-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/arizona-head-coach-rick-demont-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Head Swim Coach Rick DeMont Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=Rick+DeMont\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rick DeMont<\/strong><\/a>, head coach at the University of Arizona, has announced his plans for retirement from college coaching.<\/p>\n<p>DeMont has been a member of the Wildcats coaching staff for 30 years, and has been head coach for the last four. In addition to coaching at Arizona, DeMont was an assistant coach for the South African men&#8217;s team at the 2000 Sydney Games, 2004 Athens Games, and 2008 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming has been a large part of DeMont&#8217;s life since he was young, swimming on the 1972 Olympic team as a 16-year-old. It was at the 1972 Munich Games that DeMont became an Olympic gold medalist when he out-touched Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Brad Cooper<\/strong> by one-hundredth of a second in the 400-meter free. He would later be stripped of his gold medal when traces of ephedrine, contained in his asthma medicine, turned up in a post-race drug test. After the positive drug test, the IOC refused to let DeMont swim in the finals of the 1500-meter free.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146380\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146380\" data-attachment-id=\"146380\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rick-demont-400-free-1973-worlds\/rick-demont-brad-cooper\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rick-demont-brad-cooper.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1063\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rick-demont-brad-cooper\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Rick DeMont and Brad Cooper at 1973 worlds&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Swimming World Magazine&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rick-demont-brad-cooper-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rick-demont-brad-cooper-1024x907.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146380\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rick-demont-brad-cooper-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Rick DeMont and Brad Cooper at 1973 worlds\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-146380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Swimming World Magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DeMont recovered from the unfortunate incidents of the 1972 Munich Games by taking Belgrade by storm at the first ever World Championships. There he delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rick-demont-400-free-1973-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">world record performance <\/a>of 3:58.18 in the 400-meter free, once again defeating Cooper, and becoming the first man to break the four-minute mark in the 400-meter free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watch This Exclusive Rick DeMont Interview Pulled From The 2008 SwimmingWorld.TV Vault<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRu9-GfelE0?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Additional accomplishments include being named to the International Swimming Hall of Fame (1990), Arizona Sports Hall of Fame (1999), and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (2008). He was named\u00a0<em>Swimming World&#8217;s<\/em> World Swimmer of the Year in 1973<\/p>\n<h3><em>Read the full press release from the University of Arizona:\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>University of Arizona head swimming and diving coach Rick DeMont has decided to step down after spending 30 years as a member of the program&#8217;s coaching staff, the athletics department announced on Monday. DeMont began his career as a student-athlete at Arizona during the 1977-78 season and joined the coaching staff in 1987. DeMont will remain in his current role until the athletics department completes a national search for the next head coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is never a right time to make a decision like this and I thought long and hard about it,&#8221; DeMont said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been coaching here for 30 years, and despite the offer of a two-year extension, I decided that now is the right time to move on. I&#8217;ve given everything I have to Arizona swimming and diving and I&#8217;m looking forward to spending more time with my family and pursuing other passions. I want to thank the administration, staff and student-athletes for making this a wonderful journey and I look forward to seeing what the program can do in the coming years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Long considered a world-renowned sprint freestyle coach, DeMont has been the subject of feature stories and swimming technique articles in numerous publications, such as <em>Swimming World, Swim Technique <\/em>and<em> Splash <\/em>magazines. During his tenure with the UA, he coached 27 U.S. Swimming and NCAA individual national champions, as well as numerous national champion relay squads. DeMont also pioneered negative split swimming, which utilizes the strategy of swimming a faster second half of a race than the first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to thank Rick for everything he has done for both our department and the swimming and diving program,&#8221; said Arizona Director of Athletics <strong>Dave Heeke<\/strong>. &#8220;We know this was a tough decision for him, but one he felt he needed to make. His contribution to our program can be seen throughout the record books and his knowledge and aptitude will certainly be missed. Rocket is a true Wildcat. We wish him all the best as he transitions into the next stage of his life and congratulate him on a fabulous career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a swimmer, DeMont was a four-year All-American, spending two years at the University of Washington (1973-75) before finishing his career at the UA (1977-79). DeMont earned eight All-America honors during his two seasons as a Wildcat.<\/p>\n<p>A former world record holder in the 1500m freestyle (1972), the 400m freestyle (1973) and the 4&#215;100 freestyle relay (1977), DeMont collected numerous titles during his swim career, including National, Pan-American, World and Olympic championships. Following his senior year in high school, he was named World Swimmer of the Year. In addition, DeMont became the first man in history to break the four-minute barrier in winning the 1973 400-meter World Championship in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, DeMont was recognized for his great career with induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame (1999) and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (2008).<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release courtesy of the University of Arizona.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick DeMont, head coach at the University of Arizona, has announced his plans for retirement from college coaching. 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