David Marsh (swimming coach)
David Marsh gave a lecture at the conference coaches at Wingate Institute, September 2016
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| Sport(s) | Men's Swimming |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | SwimMAC Carolina |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 29, 1957 |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1991–2007 | Auburn |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Championship |
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| Awards | |
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NCAA Women's Coach of the Year: 2001, 2002, 2003 |
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NCAA Championship
women's team (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007)
NCAA Women's Coach of the Year: 2001, 2002, 2003
David Marsh (born December 29, 1957) is the current CEO/Director of Coaching at SwimMAC Carolina in Charlotte, N.C. He has been in this role since 2007. Prior to joining SwimMAC he was the men's and women's swimming coach at Auburn University. After becoming head coach in 1990, Marsh led the men's team to seven NCAA national championships (1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007) and the women's team to five national championships (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007). He finished his coaching career at Auburn at the conclusion of the 2007 season, after which he became the Head Elite Coach and CEO of the United States Olympic Committee Center of Excellence with SwimMAC Carolina. To date Marsh has led SwimMAC to three consecutive USA club excellence championships, a first for any programs, out distancing the second-place finisher by 12,000 points (see www.usaswimming.org).
The internationally known coach has coached 49 Olympians from 19 different countries.
Marsh is originally from Miami, Florida and received his degree in Business Administration from Auburn in 1981. Marsh was a five-time All-American backstroker at Auburn.
David Marsh is the most successful Auburn coach regardless of sport and he is arguably the most successful in the state of Alabama and the SEC, perhaps even the world. Marsh's 12 NCAA titles surpass the six won by football coach Bear Bryant at Alabama. Even breaking down the Men's and Women's titles separately, Marsh's seven men's titles beat Bryant. Marsh has won 17 SEC titles (13 men and 4 women), by far the most of any Auburn coach or team.
In 2003 he led both the men's and women's teams to a sweep of the NCAA titles, a first in collegiate Swimming and Diving. Marsh and the Tigers went on to repeat this accomplishment three more times (2004, 2006, and 2007).
Marsh inherited a strong swimming program that was a fixture in the national swimming scene and regularly in the top 20 but was in a slump and turned it into a dynastic powerhouse. Since Marsh took over the Auburn swimming and diving program, Auburn's men have finished in the Top 10 every year but his first two years (1991 & 1992's Auburn teams finished 20th and 15th). In 1990, the year before Marsh came to Auburn, the team failed to qualify any swimmers for the NCAA Meet and Marsh made the jump to #20 in year one at a meet that usually sees around 60 teams represented. In 1993 the Tigers finished #6 in the NCAA's and have not fallen out of the top 10 since, with the lowest placing in that time being #7 in 2001. The women have been equally successful, jumping from #30 in Marsh's first year to #8 in his second of 92. The lowest finish for the Tiger women since 1992 was #13 in 1995.
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