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Dan Schinnerer, who was named the Patriot League Men's Coach of the Year in 2007-08, enters his third season as the head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Bucknell. In his first two seasons at the helm of the Bison, six school records fell on the men's side (500 free, 1,000 free, 1,650 free, 100 back, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay) and the squad has captured five individual and one relay title at the Patriot League Championships. The Bucknell men have finished in the top three at the league meet each of the last two years and Luke Trafton, who collected Rookie of the Meet honors in 2007, has claimed three individual titles in his two years under Schinnerer's tutelage. Under Shinnerer's direction, the women's team produced 10 all-league performers on the way to a second-place finish at the Patriot League Championships in his first year. In his second season, Schinnerer led the women to a third-place showing at the league championships. New records have been set in the 500 free and the one-meter and three-meter diving, six optionals, as well, during Schinnerer's tenure. Prior to becoming the frontman for the Bison, the 2001 Yale graduate was most recently an assistant coach with Michigan's nationally ranked men's swimming team. Schinnerer had been associated with the vaunted Michigan program since 2003, first as a volunteer assistant and then as a full-time assistant coach beginning in July 2004. Over his last three seasons the Wolverines finished fifth, sixth and eighth, respectively, at the NCAA Championships, and in each of his last two years they produced two NCAA individual champions. Schinnerer, who served as the team's recruiting coordinator and budget administrator, designed and implemented the training program for the sprint and breaststroke group. He was able to work with Olympic-caliber swimmers, including Michigan student assistant coach Michael Phelps, who won six gold medals and eight total medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and added a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Four Michigan swimmers competed on the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team. The Wolverines placed five swimmers with Michigan ties on the 2005 USA World Championship Team, and the Club Wolverine squad swept the men's, women's and combined titles at the national championships in the summer of 2006. At Michigan, Schinnerer apprenticed under a pair of legendary head coaches in Jon Urbanchek and Bob Bowman. Urbanchek, an American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Famer, won a national championship and 13 Big Ten titles in 22 years at Michigan, and he coached in every Olympic Games from 1984 through 2004. He sent 28 of his Wolverine swimmers to the Olympics, and eight of those athletes combined to win 15 medals. Bowman took over the program in April 2004 after a successful nine-year stint at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, where Phelps was one of his prize pupils. For his accomplishments with North Baltimore, Bowman won the USA Swimming and the American Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Year Awards in 2001 and 2003. He was also named the USA Swimming Developmental Coach of the Year in 2002. Schinnerer was also heavily involved in Michigan's highly regarded summer swimming camp program, where he mentored both girls and boys aged 9-18. As assistant camp director and head coach of the intensive camp, he worked with many top young swimmers on stroke technique and training principles. At Yale, Schinnerer was a four-year swimming letterman, where he graduated from in 2001 with a bachelor of arts degree in history. As a member of the Bulldogs swimming team, he was a Senior Nationals qualifier and was the recipient of the William Leeming Jellife Award for "greatest progress and development in swimming ability and outstanding leadership during his college years." The Grand Rapids, Mich., native went on to teach history and serve as assistant swimming coach at The Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J. He helped Peddie to an Eastern Interscholastic Prep School girls' title in 2002 and a boys' championship in 2003. Schinnerer coached multiple NISCA All-Americans, U.S. Open qualifiers and senior national qualifiers at Peddie. At Bucknell, Schinnerer has taken over a storied Bison swimming and diving program that has excelled since moving into the state-of-the-art Kinney Natatorium in 2002-03. Bucknell's women captured four straight Patriot League championships from 2003-2006, while the Bison men won the title in 2003 and have finished among the top four team over the past four seasons. The Bucknell men won the 1964 NCAA College Division championship and have won 18 conference titles since 1960. Schinnerer resides in Lewisburg with his wife Lesia, and their son Kase. |
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