R.C. Weston ’10 Set To Information Swimming and Diving Packages

ROCHESTER, NY – The Nazareth athletics division is including one other alum to the pinnacle teaching tree, as R.C. Weston ’10 has been tabbed to information the swimming and diving packages as introduced on Tuesday by Athletics Director Pete Bothner.  

Weston brings over 15 years of aggressive swimming and training expertise to the place, most not too long ago serving as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator for the boys’s and ladies’s swimming and diving packages on the University of Massachusetts.

While there, he helped this system end sixth within the Atlantic 10 Conference with over 40 p.c of the workforce being made up of freshman. Academically, the groups have been every within the top-25 of the nation in GPA at 3.57 and three.52, respectively.

 

Prior to his stint at UMASS, Weston served as the pinnacle coach of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges groups from 2019-2024. As the pinnacle coach, Weston was accountable for follow planning, coaching, recruiting, educational advisement, together with athlete and personnel improvement. In 4 seasons, Weston compiled a 22-13 document in twin meets, whereas growing the extent of competitors, together with rising a ladies’s workforce of eight to a aggressive workforce of 24. Weston has additionally guided each Hobart and William Smith swimming and diving groups to 12 CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honors, being awarded with the accolade each single semester he was in cost.

Before his time at Hobart and William Smith, Weston spent 5 years as the pinnacle swimming coach at Alfred State SUNY College of Technology. During the 2018-19 season, he led the Pioneers to their finest end on the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championships with each the ladies’s and males’s groups ending in second place. He noticed 18 swimmers and divers obtain particular person AMCC titles since 2017 and broke over 100 faculty data in his first three seasons at Alfred State. Weston additionally mentored six AMCC Divers of the Year, whereas his groups earned 9 CSCAA Scholar All-America Team awards.

Before his time at Alfred State, Weston was an assistant coach at Binghamton for a yr, overseeing the boys’s and ladies’s distance coaching group and the mid-distance/stroke group. 

 

Weston additionally served as the pinnacle coach and aquatics director at Milligan College (Tenn.), the place he guided swimmers to set 31 new faculty data. He additionally helped the workforce to 12^th on the 2013 NAIA Swimming and Diving National Championships.

A local of Phelps, N.Y., Weston graduated from Nazareth in 2010 with a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration. Upon commencement, Weston was part of 1 particular person and three relay faculty/pool data. In 2010, he completed 3^rd within the 200 backstroke and sixth within the 100 backstroke on the Empire 8 Championships. 

 

He held the Niagara District Record within the 18-24 age group within the 400-yard particular person medley for 9 years. Also, an avid golfer, Weston was a member of the varsity golf workforce at Nazareth.