{"id":647105,"date":"2026-07-21T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=647105"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:31:18","slug":"vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that <strong>Adam Zaczkowski<\/strong> will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving programs.<\/p>\n<p>Zaczkowski stepped down as the head coach of his alma mater, Le Moyne, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/news\/2026\/7\/21\/swimming-and-diving-swim-dive-hires-alejandra-fuentes-as-head-diving-coach.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier in the day<\/a>. He had been at the school since 2014, spending the first five seasons as an assistant coach and then as the program\u2019s second ever head coach and aquatics director from 2019-22. He also filled a role as special assistant to the director of athletics since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to accept the position of Head Swimming and Diving Coach at VMI,&#8221; Zaczkowski said <a href=\"https:\/\/vmikeydets.com\/news\/2026\/7\/21\/zaczkowski-named-vmi-swimming-diving-head-coach.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release<\/a>. &#8220;I want to thank AD Walton and Superintendent Lt. Gen. Furness. Throughout this process, VMI&#8217;s history and culture are a place that I want to be a part of. My family is excited to be in Lexington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replaces <strong>Scott Thacker,<\/strong> who was hired away in June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/army-hires-scott-thacker-as-director-of-swimming-and-diving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to lead Army\u2019s swimming and diving teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zaczkowski led Le Moyne to several Northeast Conference championships and conference records, the conference which VMI is joining. His coaching staff was named NEC staff of the year in 2024 and 2026. He led the program\u2019s transition from the Northeast 10 Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins won 14 medals, including two championships, at the conference meet in 2026, up from four medals the year before. The men\u2019s team won its first dual meet over a fellow Division I program in 2025 against Canisius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to name Adam Zaczkowski as our head swimming and diving coach,&#8221; VMI Athletic Director <strong>Jamaal Walton<\/strong> said. &#8220;We welcome his wife, Erin, and two children, Noah and Owen, to the Whole Damn Team. When we began this search process, we were seeking a dynamic, team-oriented, compassionate leader who had the drive to build a championship-caliber program in the NEC. Adam checked all of those boxes and showed the search committee his willingness to lean in and embrace the VMI experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":647107,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[138098,56865,61113,64641],"class_list":["post-647105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-adam-zaczkowski","tag-le-moyne","tag-virginia-military-institute","tag-vmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1884\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1060\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdoctormd\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\"},\"headline\":\"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\"},\"wordCount\":343,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adam Zaczkowski\",\"Le Moyne\",\"Virginia Military Institute\",\"VMI\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\",\"name\":\"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg\",\"width\":1884,\"height\":1060,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: VMI\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\",\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\"},\"description\":\"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach","description":"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach","og_description":"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1884,"height":1060,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdoctormd","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/"},"author":{"name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3"},"headline":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach","datePublished":"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/"},"wordCount":343,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","keywords":["Adam Zaczkowski","Le Moyne","Virginia Military Institute","VMI"],"articleSection":["College"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/","name":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","datePublished":"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-22T01:31:18+00:00","description":"Virginia Military Institute on Tuesday announced that Adam Zaczkowski will take over the school\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","width":1884,"height":1060,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: VMI"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vmi-hires-le-moynes-adam-zaczkowski-as-head-coach\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"VMI Hires Le Moyne\u2019s Adam Zaczkowski as Head Coach"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3","name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer"},"description":"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: VMI","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZackZkowskiVMI.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2Ilb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647108,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647105\/revisions\/647108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}