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What Lars and his coaching staff are building at Kentucky is truly special, and I can&#8217;t wait to help this team reach new heights.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simpson was a five-year letterwinner at Kentucky, swimming under former head coach <strong>Gary Conelly<\/strong> (2009-13) and current head coach Lars Jorgensen (2013-14). He served three seasons as the men&#8217;s team captain, and he specialized in butterfly and IM.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson attended St. Xavier High School in Louisville and swam for Lakeside Swim Club. Simpson married his wife Morgan Simpson in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Kentucky Swimming and Diving.<\/i><i>\u00a0For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i>\u00a0<b><i>Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former University of Kentucky swimmer and team captain, Maclin Simpson, has been named assistant coach of the Kentucky men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s swimming and diving teams, it was announced by head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":394889,"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":[6],"tags":[72755,40461,108633,46364],"class_list":["post-394881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-kentucky-swimming-and-diving","tag-lars-jorgensen","tag-maclin-simpson","tag-sec-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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