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Jack Bauerle
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Head Coach 33nd Year (W); 29th Year (M) “Jack Bauerle is the consummate team coach. What he has done at the University of Georgia represents the pinnacle of team swimming, which is what the U.S. Olympic Team is all about. He brings a fun approach to the sport.” USA Swimming’s Mark Schubert used those words when he announced that Bauerle had been chosen as the head coach of the United States’ women’s swimming team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. For Bauerle, the Olympic appointment became the crowning moment of his career. Bauerle has had unparalleled success in and out of the pool at Georgia, highlighted by four team national championships with the Lady Bulldogs. Under Bauerle’s watch, individual national and Southeastern Conference champions, All-Americans, record-setters, Academic All-Americans and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients have become the norm. In his stint overseeing Georgia’s program (not to mention his time as a Georgia swimmer himself and assistant coach), Bauerle has produced four team national championships and eight SEC crowns with the Lady Bulldogs. He has been chosen as the SEC Coach of the Year 15 times and the National Women’s Coach of the Year five times. Bauerle will pilot the Georgia women for the 33rd year and the men for the 29th in 2010-11. He has led the Lady Bulldogs to 269 dual-meet victories, four national championships and eight SEC titles during his tenure. Counting his 189 wins as the Bulldogs’ coach, Bauerle has an overall record of 457-113-1. He will enter the season as the winningest women’s head coach in NCAA history, the winningest head coach for both women and men in SEC history, and the fourth-winningest head coach for both women and men in NCAA history. In 2011, Bauerle guided the Lady Bulldogs to the program’s sixth NCAA runner-up finish and its eighth SEC title. The Lady Bulldogs boasted three individual and two relay champions at the NCAAs as well as four individual and one relay titles at the SECs. The Lady Bulldogs also set American records in the 400 and 800 freestyle relays a year ago. The Bulldogs came in 10th at the NCAAs, their fourth straight top-10 effort, on the strength of individual titles from Mark Dylla and Bill Cregar. At the 2008 Olympics, the United States women, under Bauerle’s watch, earned a total of 14 medals (two golds, seven silvers, five bronze), the most of any nation. Two of his pupils, ex-Lady Bulldog Kara Lynn Joyce and current swimmer Allison Schmitt, were included in the medals haul as Joyce won two silvers and Schmitt secured a bronze. Bauerle’s handiwork was on display as 12 athletes and coaches from his Georgia program joined him in Beijing.
Bauerle’s Highlights GEORGIA WOMEN (1979-PRESENT) • NCAA Championships in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. • NCAA runner-up in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011. • 21 top-10 national finishes, including 16 in the top 5. • 8 SEC Championship titles (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2011). • 5-Time NCAA Coach of the Year (1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006). • 13-Time SEC Coach of the Year (1981, 1986, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011). • 64 NCAA Championship titles (43 individuals, 21 relay teams). • 141 All-Americans, earning 637 First-Team and 335 Honorable Mention certificates. • 119 SEC champions (85 individuals and 34 relay teams). • Career record of 269-31-1. • Three NCAA Woman of the Year honorees. • 21 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients. GEORGIA MEN (1983-PRESENT) • 2-Time SEC Coach of the Year (1992, 1997). • 13 NCAA Championship individual winners. • 17 top-15 national finishes, including 11 in the top 10. • 84 All-Americans, earning 114 First-Team and 358 Honorable Mention certificates. • 51 SEC individual champions. • Career record of 188-82. • 6 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients. INTERNATIONAL • United States Women’s Head Coach for the 2008 Olympics. • United States Assistant Coach for the 2000 Olympics. • Personal Coach for the 2004 Olympics. • United States Head Coach for the 2003, 2005 and 2011 World Championships. • United States Assistant Coach for the 2001 World Championships. • United States Head Coach for the 2009 Duel In The Pool. • Has coached at Pan Pacific Games,World University Games, United States National Team Camp, Elite Distance Camp and United States Olympic Festival.
Georgia swimming and diving can claim one achievement that no other collegiate sports program can – three NCAA Woman of the Year Award winners in Lisa Coole (1997), Kristy Kowal (2000) and Kim Black (2001). Georgia is the only program in the nation to have more than one winner – and Bauerle has coached all three. In 2011, Bauerle was chosen for induction into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Montgomery County (Pa.) Coaches Hall of Fame. He also was named as the winner of the Bill Hartman Award, which is one of the highest honors given to a former UGA student-athlete based on 20 years of excellence in his or her chosen profession. Besides coaching, Bauerle has dedicated his time and efforts to several community service endeavors. In 1983, Bauerle and three partners played 125 hours of tennis at the Jennings Mill Country Club to raise more than $50,000 for the American Cancer Society. He received the Billy Hudson Distinguished Citizen Award from the Northeast Georgia Council of the Boy Scouts of America for his community service efforts. Bauerle has been selected to Sphinx Club, Blue Key Society, the Gridiron Society and Phi Kappa Phi. Bauerle, a native of Glenside, Pa., has two sons, John Randall Jr. and Stuart Magill (who is named after legendary Georgia tennis coach and swimming letterman Dan Magill).