Skelly Steps Down as Patriots Males’s and Ladies’s Swimming & Diving Coach

By: UC Sports Information

Williamsburg, KY – University of the Cumberlands males’s and girls’s swimming & diving coach Eric Skelly has resigned, Athletic Director Chris Kraftick introduced Tuesday. 

Coach Skelly had simply accomplished his 15^th season after taking on this system in 2011.  In his time at UC, Skelly guided the Patriots to 14 consecutive ladies’s swimming & diving Mid-South Conference Championships, together with 11 convention titles on the lads’s aspect, together with eight straight.  Additionally, Coach Skelly lead Cumberlands to 18 top-five nationwide finishes, together with a nationwide runner-up end on the lads’s aspect this yr, whereas the ladies’s workforce posted a 3rd place end.

For his success at UC, Coach Skelly was a two-time NAIA Women’s Coach of the Year (2013, 2018), coach two NAIA Swimmers of the Year (Mendy de Rooi in 2019 and 2020), and three NAIA Divers of the Year (Dave Groh – 2018, Thomas Crawford – 2019, and Emma Lehmkuhl – 2023.  Coach Skelly has additionally coached 21 particular person nationwide champions and the 2019 ladies’s 400 medley relay, which is the primary UC relay to seize a nationwide title.

Coach Skelly additionally coached 700 CSCAA All-Americans over his Patriot profession, whereas teaching a plethora of swimmers which have set new program data.  Additionally, Skelly have coach a pair swimmers, Charlotte Parent and Christina Klouda, which have been inducted into the Patriots Athletic Hall of Fame. 

Cumberlands is coming off an historic season during which each packages posted prime three finishes for the primary time in the identical season.

 

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