Six-time Olympic Champion Ryan Lochte Will Coach Missouri State Swimming

Missouri State University is including probably the most completed swimmers in Olympic historical past to its teaching workers. Six-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte will be part of the Bears later this summer time as an assistant coach for each the lads’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications beneath head coach Dave Collins.

Lochte, 41, brings a prolonged record of accomplishments to Springfield following a profession that included 12 Olympic medals over 4 Olympic Games. He ranks third in Olympic swimming historical past in complete medals gained behind Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. Lochte additionally gained 39 world championship titles and picked up 90 medals in main worldwide competitions, together with the Olympics, World Championships, Pan American Games and Pan Pacific Championships.

Before his skilled success, Lochte was a 24-time All-American on the University of Florida the place he earned NCAA Swimmer of the Year honors twice and gained seven NCAA championships. Missouri State officers imagine his expertise competing on the highest ranges of the game will assist proceed this system’s progress whereas offering precious mentorship for student-athletes each out and in of the pool.