Pitt swim coach Chase Kreitler resigns

Pitt introduced Monday that Chase Kreitler resigned as head swimming and diving coach after 4 seasons.

“When I met with our student-athletes this morning, I shared our continued desire to field a nationally competitive program, while supporting their holistic development as students and athletes,” Pitt athletic director Allen Greene stated in an announcement. “Sustaining this philosophy requires not only achieving these goals but being strategic in how we do so. That will be our focus as we search for our next head coach.”

SwimSwam Magazine obtained Kreitler’s resignation letter the place he wrote, “I was recently informed that the department intends to move in a different strategic direction after the 2026-2027 season. While I was offered the opportunity to coach one more year, I do not believe I could operate in integrity continuing to recruit transfers and incoming student-athletes knowing I would not be part of their journey beyond next season.”

Pitt officers stated a seek for his successor is underway.

The Panthers are coming off some of the profitable seasons in workforce historical past.

Pitt’s ladies’s workforce earned a CSCAA rating at No. 24 for the primary time in December and reached as excessive as No. 21 in March. The workforce positioned sixteenth on the NCAA championships, its highest end in program historical past. The Pitt ladies completed sixth on the ACC championships, which additionally was a program greatest.

Pitt’s males’s workforce took twentieth on the NCAA championships, it’s highest end in 73 years.

Pitt diving had a program-record 12 athletes qualify for the zone championships and 5 transfer on to the NCAA meet.

In all, Pitt swimmers and divers set 19 workforce information on the NCAA championships, together with all 5 males’s relays.

Kreitler, who was employed by former athletic director Heather Lyke, got here to Pitt after guiding future Olympians on the U.S. nationwide workforce and serving to lead nationwide championship runs in 2019 and 2022 as an assistant coach at California.

He additionally was an assistant in prior seasons at Eastern Michigan, LSU, Texas and Stanford.