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He was 75 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Busch collapsed from a heart attack at the Phoenix airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/sports\/arizonawildcats\/article_626aa2b8-d884-4ac0-b17d-20e30e8d4e36.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a report<\/a> by the <em>Arizona Daily Star.<\/em> He was returning from a fishing trip.<\/p>\n<p>Busch was hired as Arizona\u2019s swimming coach in 1989 and served in that capacity through 2011. He won national coach of the year awards six times and was 11 times voted the Pac-10 Coach of the Year. Busch was hired by USA Swimming, where he was the director of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. Olympic teams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/frank-busch-announces-retirement-as-usa-swimmings-national-team-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Busch: Leaving A Lasting Legacy<\/a>, from 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Arizona, Busch led the Wildcats to 25 top-five finishes at NCAAs. It included both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s team title in 2008. He coached 48 individual NCAA champions and 31 relay championships.<\/p>\n<p>Busch was hired by USA Swimming in 2011, the third full-time occupant of the National Team Director role originated in 1989 by <strong>Dennis Pursley.<\/strong> He led the team at the London and Rio Olympics, retiring from the role in 2017. The Americans brought home 64 Olympic medals from those Games.<\/p>\n<p>Busch was inducted to the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/news\/2026\/4\/10\/general-bates-busch-young-part-of-arizona-sports-hall-of-fame-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as part of the Class of 2025<\/a> and is a member of the America Swim Coaches Association Hall of Fame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passages: Frank Busch, Former Arizona and USA Swimming Coach, 75 Frank Busch, who coached Arizona to NCAA titles and served as the national team director for USA swimming at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":277196,"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":[3,62061,7],"tags":[36,1517,63976,56805,48331,2690],"class_list":["post-654347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-obituaries","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-frank-busch","tag-obituaries","tag-pac-12-swimming","tag-passages","tag-usa-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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