Morgan McCafferty – Swimming and Diving Coach

Morgan McCafferty begins her first season as the top ladies’s swimming & diving coach for Georgia Southern for the 2024-25 marketing campaign.

McCafferty involves Statesboro from the University of Idaho, the place she served as an assistant coach for the Vandals the final three seasons. She is a former standout swimmer on the University of Nebraska as nicely.

While at Idaho, McCafferty helped coach student-athletes to 41 new top-10 finishes from the earlier season, together with new faculty data set within the 50 Free, 100 Free, 500 Free, 1,000 Free, 400 IM, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay. McCafferty additionally coached Zoe Froh, who went on to compete on the Canadian Swimming Trials in 2022. She additionally led all elements of teaching for the Vandals ladies’s swimming and diving program, together with main practices, and served because the recruiting coordinator for this system. McCafferty deliberate and coordinated all journey for this system as a part of her duties as nicely.

Before her tenure at Idaho, McCafferty devoted two seasons to her alma mater, the University of Nebraska, because the director of operations. In this position, she not solely assisted the teaching employees with journey, recruiting, and day-to-day operations but in addition took cost of this system’s social media channels. This expertise was a big a part of her private {and professional} development, getting ready her for the position of head coach at Georgia Southern.

McCafferty additionally gained worthwhile expertise teaching at the highschool and membership ranges. She spent two years as the top coach for Club Husker, working with athletes between the ages of 6 and 18. She had beforehand spent two seasons working with Club Husker because the age group coach for girls and boys, ages 9 to 13. McCafferty was additionally an assistant with Pius X High School final season and labored with Midwestern Swimming in 2018. 

McCafferty was a four-year letterwinner for the Cornhuskers, incomes Academic All-Big Ten honors in every of her last three seasons. As a senior, she helped lead Nebraska to its greatest Big Ten Championship end since becoming a member of the league in 2012 and was additionally chosen to compete within the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha. McCafferty was a six-time honoree on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and a four-time Tom Osborne Citizenship Team choice, in addition to a Herman Team GPA recipient in her first two seasons and a three-time Night on the Lied Academic Medallion Recipient.

A local of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, McCafferty earned her diploma from Nebraska in historical past and added a grasp’s in increased schooling administration.