{"id":307507,"date":"2018-04-30T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=307507"},"modified":"2018-04-30T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:32:42","slug":"sergio-lopez-named-head-coach-at-virginia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sergio-lopez-named-head-coach-at-virginia-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Lopez Named Head Coach at Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG \u2013 Virginia Tech Director of Athletics <strong>Whit Babcock<\/strong> announced Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=sergio+lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sergio Lopez Miro <\/strong><\/a>has agreed to serve as head coach of the Virginia Tech swimming and diving program. He joins the Hokies after spending the past two seasons as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sergio-lopez-leaving-singapore-for-auburn-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">associate head coach at Auburn University<\/a>, following a two-year stint as the head high performance coach of the Singapore Swimming Association.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to Hokie Nation!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hokies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hokies<\/a> name Sergio Lopez Miro to lead swimming &amp; diving program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jJSGTL1XTi\">https:\/\/t.co\/jJSGTL1XTi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>???\u200d\u2640\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pRUkwhVASw\">pic.twitter.com\/pRUkwhVASw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Tech Swimming &amp; Diving (@HokiesSwimDive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HokiesSwimDive\/status\/990944941856739328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lopez Miro owns previous head coaching experience at West Virginia from 2004-07, where he was a two-time Big East Men\u2019s Coach of the Year. His list of notable pupils includes Olympic gold medalists and NCAA champions Ryan Murphy and Joseph Schooling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe enthusiastically welcome Sergio, his wife Sandy, and their children Harley and Cobi to Hokie Nation,\u201d Babcock said. \u201cWe are thrilled to have a coach with Sergio\u2019s pedigree and proven record of producing elite competitors in Olympic and NCAA competition. His personal history of accomplishment as a competitor was just another plus that made him stand out as our top candidate. The addition of Sergio to our roster of talented head coaches gives another reason to be encouraged about the future of our swimming and diving program under his tutelage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly excited to become part of the Hokie Family and feel honored by the trust that Whit Babcock and <strong>Danny White<\/strong> are placing in me to help lead the Virginia Tech\u2019s swimming and diving team to the top,\u201d Lopez Miro said. \u201cVirginia Tech has so much to offer academically and athletically, that along with the great swimming base in the state of Virginia, the sky is the limit for the team. Besides being a great draw for in-state swimmers, the strong reputation of Virginia Tech will attract top level swimmers from across the USA and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following his stint at WVU, Lopez led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sergio-lopez-reflects-on-bolles-alum-success-at-ncaas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prestigious Bolles School<\/a> in Jacksonville, Florida from 2007-14. During his tenure, he led both the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 teams to state titles and his teams held five of the 11 independent school national high school records. In addition, the boys team claimed four national titles while the girls finished as runners-up twice. Murphy and Schooling both swam for Lopez Miro at Bolles.<\/p>\n<p>While working with the Singapore Swimming Association, Lopez Miro created and coached the National Training Center where he worked with 33 of the best swimmers in the country. He developed and coached the first Olympic gold medalist, Schooling, in Singapore\u2019s history. He is a three-time Olympic team coach, serving as the head coach for Singapore at the 2016 Rio games and as an assistant in 2012 for the London games. In addition, Lopez Miro was the head coach for Netherlands Antilles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Barcelona, Spain native was a member of the Spanish national team from 1984-96. He won a silver medal at the 1993 World Championships and has held European and U.S. Open records as well as 14 records in Spain. Lopez Miro claimed a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics in the 200 breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Miro began his coaching career as a volunteer at Arizona from 1994-96. From 1996-97 he was the technical director at the Cantabric Swimming Federation in Santander, Spain before returning to the U.S. to serve as the head coach at Hillenbrand Aquatics in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the college ranks to serve as an assistant (2000-03) coach at Northwestern before being promoted to associate head coach in 2003. While there he helped the Wildcats to produce seven All-Americans, eight Big Ten champions, a Big Ten Swimmer of the Year and a Big Ten Freshman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez graduated from American University in 1992 with a degree in Kinesiology. During his collegiate career, Lopez Miro earned nine All-America honors in the breaststroke and IM events.<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release courtesy of Virginia Tech Athletics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG \u2013 Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced Monday that Sergio Lopez Miro has agreed to serve as head coach of the Virginia Tech swimming and diving program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":192496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[49364,52045,36297,55911,67554,64021],"class_list":["post-307507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-acc-swimming","tag-auburn-swimming","tag-college-swimming","tag-division-i-swimming","tag-sergio-lopes","tag-virginia-tech-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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