Randy Reese
Reese poolside in 1976
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| Sport(s) | Swimming & diving |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1946 Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Playing career | |
| 1965–1967 | Florida State University |
| Position(s) | Individual medley |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1968–1970 | Bolles School |
| 1971–1976 | Episcopal High School |
| 1976–1990 | University of Florida |
| 1979 | Pan-Am Games (Asst.) |
| 1980–1988 | U.S. Olympic Team (Asst.) |
| 1987 | Pan-Pacific Championships (Asst.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | Men's: 100–21 (.826) Women's: 118–7 (.944) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Men's NCAA (1983, 1984) Women's AIAW (1979) Women's NCAA (1982) Men's Southeastern Conference (1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990) Women's Southeastern Conference (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990) |
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| Awards | |
| NCAA Men's Coach of the Year (1983, 1984) NCAA Women's Coach of the Year (1982, 1988) SEC Men's Coach of the Year (1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990) SEC Women's Coach of the Year (1987, 1988, 1990) University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame International Swimming Hall of Fame |
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Randy Reese (born 1946) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. Reese is best known for coaching the Florida Gators swimming and diving teams of the University of Florida to four national championships, and coaching the winners of eighteen Olympic gold, eight silver and eight bronze medals. Reese is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Randy Reese was born in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1946. He attended Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, and was a member of the Mainland Buccaneers swim team. After graduating from Mainland, he attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he swam for coach Bim Stultz's Florida State Seminoles swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1965 to 1967. In college, Reese was primarily an individual medley swimmer. During his senior year at Florida State, he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and switched from swimming to coaching Stultz's freshman team, and Reese discovered his life's calling.
After graduating from Florida State in 1968, Reese accepted his first full-time position as the head coach of the men's and women's swim teams at the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he also coached the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) team J.E.T.S. from 1969 to 1971. In 1971, Bolles' rival prep school, Episcopal High School, enticed Reese to become the head coach of its men's and women's swimming and diving teams. Under Reese, the Episcopal men's team won the high school national championship title.
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