Associate Head Coach, Swimming

Position Summary: The Associate Head Coach supports all aspects of the IMG Academy Swimming program, including athlete development, training design, competition preparation, recruiting, swim meet operations, staff development, and overall program operations. This position works closely with the Head Coach to build and maintain a high-performance environment focused on individual athlete development, competitive excellence, character, accountability, and long-term success. 
Key Responsibilities:

Assist in the planning, organization, and execution of all swimming program activities, including daily practices, competitions, training sessions, camps, clinics, training trips, and athlete development initiatives. 
Lead and oversee student athlete development across all four competitive strokes, starts, turns, underwater skills, race strategy, pacing, technique, and overall swimming efficiency. 
Develop and implement comprehensive short term and long-term training plans aligned with individual athlete needs, competition schedules, long term athlete development, and program performance goals. 
Monitor athlete training, attendance, wellness, recovery, workload, and performance trends to help guide training decisions and individualize athlete development. 
Utilize video analysis, performance data, and available technology to identify areas for improvement and establish measurable performance benchmarks. 
Assist with competition preparation, including athlete event planning, entries, race strategy, relays, warm up and recovery protocols, competition schedules, and post-meet performance evaluation. 
Plan, organize, and execute swim meets and competitions, including meet sanctioning, meet setup, entries, seeding, timelines, session planning, officials’ coordination, volunteer staffing, timing equipment, results, and post meet reporting. 
Serve in meet leadership roles as needed, coordinating with meet directors, administrative officials, timing personnel, officials, coaches, volunteers, and facility staff to ensure professional and efficient competition operations. 
Support the planning and execution of IMG Academy hosted competitions, invitationals, time trials, championship meets, and other aquatic events. 
Foster a positive, disciplined, competitive, and growth-oriented team culture that emphasizes accountability, leadership, sportsmanship, personal development, and high performance standards. 
Serve as a mentor to student athletes, supporting their athletic, academic, emotional, and personal development. 
Assist in managing program operations, including practice schedules, pool and lane assignments, travel logistics, roster management, competition planning, equipment, and event coordination. 
Collaborate with the Head Coach and program leadership to continually evaluate and improve program structure, training systems, coaching methodology, athlete development pathways, and overall performance.
Assist in identifying, evaluating, recruiting, and retaining high level student athletes domestically and internationally for IMG Academy Swimming. 
Build and maintain relationships with club coaches, collegiate coaches, national governing bodies, swimming organizations, and members of the domestic and international swimming community. 
Support student athletes throughout the collegiate recruiting and placement process by providing guidance, evaluations, communication support, and exposure opportunities. 
Assist with prospective athlete visits, evaluations, camps, clinics, recruiting events, and family engagement. 
Maintain strong communication with student athletes, parents and guardians, coaching staff, and internal departments regarding athlete development, expectations, academics, competition schedules, travel, and overall program operations. 
Collaborate with across departments to support the holistic development and wellbeing of student athletes. 
Work closely with performance staff to integrate strength training, recovery, nutrition, sports science, mental performance, and other available resources into the overall athlete development process. 
Partner with Marketing, Communications, Outreach, and Admissions teams to support program visibility, branding, recruiting, content, and promotional initiatives. 
Represent IMG Academy Swimming professionally with USA Swimming, Florida Swimming, collegiate programs, national and international swimming organizations, visiting teams, prospective families, and event partners. 
Ensure compliance with IMG Academy policies, USA Swimming requirements, Safe Sport policies, NCAA recruiting guidelines where applicable, and all relevant governing body standards. 
Support swimming camps, clinics, competitions, events, and visiting team training opportunities throughout the year. 
Travel as needed for competitions, training trips, recruiting activities, camps, and program events. 
Adhere to all company policies, procedures, and business ethics standards. 
Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications: 

High level proficiency in competitive swimming coaching, athlete development, technical instruction, and performance training. 
Minimum of 5+ years of experience coaching, competing, or managing swimming at the club, academy, collegiate, national, international, or professional level. 
Demonstrated success developing competitive swimmers and contributing to a high-performance training environment. 
Strong knowledge of all four competitive strokes, starts, turns, underwater skills, race strategy, training methodology, periodization, energy systems, and long-term athlete development. 
Experience utilizing performance data, video analysis, testing, and athlete feedback to guide training and technical development. 
Demonstrated experience planning and managing swim meets from initial sanctioning and meet setup through competition execution, results, and final reporting. 
Highly proficient with HY TEK Meet Manager, including meet setup, entries, seeding, meet operations, results, reports, and timing system integration. 
Proficient in the operation and troubleshooting of Colorado Time Systems and OMEGA electronic timing systems, including timing consoles, touchpads, backup timing, harnesses, and scoreboard integration. 
Proven leadership, organizational, communication, and relationship building skills. 
Strong commitment to student athlete development and success both in and out of the pool. 
Bachelor’s degree in physical education, sports management, exercise science, business administration, or related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience. 

Preferred Skills: 

Experience coaching athletes at the national, international, NCAA, Olympic Trials, or equivalent high-performance level. 
Experience recruiting and working with domestic and international student athletes. 
Experience with collegiate recruiting and athlete placement. 
Experience managing swimming camps, clinics, meets, training trips, and other aquatic events. 
Familiarity with swimming performance technology, underwater video, race analysis, athlete monitoring, and performance data systems. 
Experience supervising, mentoring, and developing coaching staff. 
Current USA Swimming coach membership and required certifications, or ability to obtain. 
CPR, First Aid, AED, and applicable water safety certifications. 
Bilingual or multilingual communication skills. 
Valid driver’s license with the ability to drive for competitions, recruiting, training trips, and other program activities. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Ability to lift, move, push, and pull swimming equipment or boxes in excess of 40 pounds. 
Ability to work for extended periods in indoor and outdoor aquatic environments, including heat, humidity, and varying weather conditions. 
Must be able to move throughout campus, including pool decks, strength and conditioning facilities, classrooms, athletic facilities, and other training areas. 
Ability to remain active and on the pool deck for extended training and competition periods. 
Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, competitions, and travel, as required. 

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