Todd Clark, Headvert Coach of Steel City Aquatics, Dies, 61

Swim coach Todd Clark died on Sunday when he suffered a sudden coronary heart assault whereas strolling into the WAAC Winter Age Group Open meet at West Allegheny Senior High School. He was 61 years previous.

Clark most not too long ago is the top coach of Steel City Aquatics in Pittsburgh, the place he has labored since 2020. He was promoted to move coach in 2024.

Clark had over 35 years of expertise as a head swimming coach at completely different ranges, and has served three years on the USA Swimming National Team employees and has positioned two athletes on the US National Junior Team, together with open water swimmer Claire Pophal and pool swimmer Rachel Zilinskas.

Prior to his time at Steel City, he labored with the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins and the Hawken School in Cleveland. LESD earned USA Swimming Silver Medal standing beneath Clark’s management, and his highschool groups gained 4 state titles.

Prior to that he labored as a coach at Peters Township High School and with the Fox Chapel Killer Whales within the Pittsburgh space.

In the faculty ranks, Clark labored because the assistant head coach at his alma mater Kenyon in 1988, the place each the women and men gained NCAA Division III titles.

After one yr there he was named the top coach at one other D3 college: Case Western Reserve University. In 13 years there, he coached 44 All-Americans and two particular person NCAA Division III National Champions. His groups twice had the best GPAs in school swimming.

As an athlete, he was a seven time All-American at Kenyon and a five-time USMS National Champion.

Clark additionally prolonged his contact on the game past his personal teaching, serving because the Senior Chair for Allegheny Mountain Swimming and main a number of LSC coaching camps.

Part of a swim teaching energy couple, his spouse Marian is the top coach of Pittsburgh Elite Aquatics. They have three youngsters, Maiti, Mara, and Mac.

According to Steel City Aquatics staff president Matt Puthoff, the staff is grieving but in addition celebrating his life and the “powerful, positive impact he made on thousands of lives.”

“Todd and his wife, Marian, have been stalwarts of our community for years, and we want to ensure his story is told—not just for the sake of his impressive resume, but for the family he leaves behind,” Puthoff stated. “Todd was immensely pleased with his son, who’s at the moment in the course of his freshman yr on the University of Tennessee. He so typically shared photos of his son experiencing life in Knoxville, and that satisfaction was evident to everybody who knew him.