Director of Swimming & Diving Matt Kredich To Be Inducted To ISCA Hall of Fame

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A storied profession main the Tennessee Swimming & Diving program, Director of Swimming & Diving Matt Kredich has been inducted into the International Swim Coaches Association (ISCA) Hall of Fame. Kredich is certainly one of three coaches that will likely be formally inducted into the corridor of fame as a part of the Class of 2026 on Friday, April 17 in the course of the ORCA Awards Weekend.

I’m very grateful to the International Swim Coaches Association for this recognition, and for its dedication to schooling, shared studying, and the development of the game of aggressive swimming”, said Kredich. “Coaching is about relationships, collaboration and shared imaginative and prescient, and any success I’ve been part of displays the unbelievable athletes, colleagues, and mentors I’ve been lucky to study from alongside the way in which.”

Since stepping foot on campus, Kredich has been instrumental within the success of the swimming and diving program. The four-time SEC Coach of the Year has guided the Lady Vols to a pair of SEC Championship titles, together with the workforce’s first-ever championship in 2020 and the second title coming in 2022. Both the boys’s and ladies’s sides have every completed within the prime 10 on the NCAA Championships within the final three seasons, a feat neither workforce had achieved in the identical season earlier than 2023.


At the 2025 NCAA Championships, Tennessee gained three NCAA titles (50 Free, 200 & 400 Free Relays) and set three NCAA information (100 Free, 200 & 400 Free Relays) for the boys’s program. The groups mixed to win 12 NCAA medals out of the 20 podium finishes. At the SEC Championships, the Big Orange mixed to win 28 medals, with 12 gold, 9 silver, and 7 bronze.

Since 2005-06, Kredich has guided Tennessee student-athletes to a mixed 102 SEC and 12 NCAA titles. The two applications have achieved a complete complete of 807 All-American certificates below his steering, whereas 4 completely different Vols and Lady Vols have garnered six SEC Swimmer of the Year honors along with his teaching, with Crooks successful it most just lately in 2023 and 2025. A Tennessee swimmer has gained the convention’s prime recognition in 5 of the final seven seasons.

Tennessee student-athletes have additionally excelled within the classroom with Kredich on the helm. Since 2010, the Lady Vols boast 84 first-team Scholar All-Americans and 121 complete honorees. As a program, the ladies have earned CSCAA Scholar All-American Team recognition for 14 consecutive seasons. On the boys’s facet, a complete of 71 Vols acquired Scholar All-American standing, with 40 acknowledged on the primary workforce, since 2012-13. The program has been named to the Scholar All-American Team listing throughout 21 of the 22 semesters below Kredich. During the 2023-24 educational yr, Martin Espernberger earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors, marking the second time a Tennessee swimmer had gained the award below Kredich.

Kredich has introduced in a few of the greatest expertise to the Tennessee program. Kredich has coached 24 Olympians who competed at Tennessee, together with three medalists. During the 2024 Paris Olympics, Tennessee had a program-record 17 Vols and Lady Vols compete, shattering the earlier document of seven on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Tennessee swimmers gained a pair of medals in 2024, whereas additionally breaking 5 nationwide information and advancing to seven finals.