Gideon Louw – Ladies’s Swimming & Diving Coach

Former Olympian swimmer Gideon Louw is at present serving his fourth 12 months on the Minnesota swimming and diving workers and was promoted to affiliate head coach in 2017. He works primarily with the dash freestyle group.

Louw helped engineer a turnaround for the Gopher males’s relays in 2016. After sending no relays to the NCAA Championships in 2015, they despatched 4 in 2016. The 200-yard medley relay collected All-America Honorable Mention accolades. Minnesota certified all 5 relays in 2017, with the 400 freestyle relay receiving All-America Honorable Mention.

Bowe Becker certified for NCAAs individually in each his first two seasons, racing within the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races. Becker additionally broke the brief course college document within the 100 and the lengthy course document within the 50. The 400 free and 400 medley relays broke data throughout the 2017 season.

Outside of collegiate teaching, Louw additionally works with Olympic hopefuls. Minnesota alumnus David Plummer, who educated with Louw main as much as the 2016 Olympics, received a bronze medal within the 100-meter backstroke and a gold medal with the United States’ 400-meter medley relay.

Louw got here to Minnesota after serving two seasons as a graduate assistant at Florida State, the place he offered planning and implementation of exercises and offered evaluation and instruction of swimming methods, amongst different duties. While at FSU, Louw helped the Seminole males to a 14th place end on the 2014 NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas.

Prior to becoming a member of the teaching workers at Florida State, Louw represented South Africa on the London 2012 Olympic Games, the place he completed fifth general as a member of the 400-meter freestyle relay and ninth general individually within the 50-meter freestyle. Louw additionally competed on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the place he completed twelfth general within the 50-meter freestyle.

At the collegiate degree, Louw performed an integral function in serving to Auburn declare its eighth NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship as a junior in 2009. That season, Louw was a three-time NCAA Champion as a member of the 200 free relay, 400 medley relay and 200 medley relay groups, along with his 200 medley relay crew breaking the NCAA document with a time of 1:14.08. As a senior in 2010, Louw positioned third on the NCAA Championships within the 100 freestyle, whereas inserting second within the 200 medley relay, 200 free relay and 400 medley relay. He additionally snagged a fifth-place end within the 50 free.

Louw started his collegiate profession at Indian River State College in Ft. Pierce, Fla., the place he was a seven-time NJCAA champion in 2008, profitable the 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay and 400 medley relay. For his efforts, he was named NJCAA Swimmer of the Year.

Louw was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2014 and into the Indian River State College Hall of Fame in 2013. He earned a level in train science from Auburn in 2011 and earned a grasp’s diploma in train physiology from Florida State in 2014.

He is married to Shanda Louw, a former Division I swimmer herself.