{"id":31668,"date":"2012-08-10T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2012\/08\/university-of-michigan-mens-and-womens-swimming-to-merge-mike-bottom-to-serve-as-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T09:09:11","slug":"university-of-michigan-mens-and-womens-swimming-to-merge-mike-bottom-to-serve-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/university-of-michigan-mens-and-womens-swimming-to-merge-mike-bottom-to-serve-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Michigan Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Swimming to Merge; Mike Bottom to Serve as Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Michigan, August 10. MIKE Bottom is set to become head coach of the newly-merged men&#039;s and women&#039;s swimming teams at the University of Michigan, the school announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom has been coach of the men&#039;s team since 2008, but the women&#039;s team has been without a permanent head coach since longtime coach Jim Richardson announced his retirement in May after 27 years there.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement makes Michigan the second major Division I university to merge its women&#039;s and men&#039;s programs this year. The University of Tennessee <a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/College\/30272.asp target=\"_blank\">did the same thing<\/a> in April when Matt Kredich took over both squads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really a great opportunity and advantage for both of our programs, and the student-athletes should be the ultimate beneficiary,&#8221; said Bottom. &#8220;We will have the opportunity to add excellent coaches to our current staff. We can combine the administrative work that has been done by both the men&#039;s and women&#039;s staffs and allow the coaches to focus more on the training, coaching and mentoring of the student-athletes. The future looks bright for the men and women associated with Michigan Swimming and Diving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This would be Bottom&#039;s first time as head coach of a collegiate women&#039;s team. Before he arrived in Ann Arbor, he was co-head coach of the men&#039;s team at UC-Berkeley from 1997 to 2007, and assistant coach for the men&#039;s and women&#039;s teams at the University of Southern California form 1994 to 1997. His first collegiate coaching gig was assistant coach of the combined teams at Auburn University from 1991 to 1994.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his coaching duties, Bottom was the head coach of The Race Club, which was started by Gary Hall Sr. in Florida as a training ground for postgraduates aspiring to Olympic glory. Among the Olympic medalists he guided there were Gary Hall Jr., Anthony Ervin, Milorad Cavic and Nathan Adrian.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source at the university, Josh White is set to become the men&#039;s team associate head coach. White had been assistant men&#039;s coach at Michigan for three years. The men&#039;s and women&#039;s teams will train separately for the most part, though some practices are expected to overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Bishop has been named as associate head coach, though it&#039;s unclear if he will be solely responsible for the women&#039;s team or if he will divide duties between both teams. Bishop&#039;s previous coaching experience includes stints at the Bolles School and the Baylor School. He has also been working as Sports Performance Consultant for USA Swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Additional hires for assistant coaches are expected to be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Michigan, August 10. 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