Ryan Lochte becoming a member of Missouri State swim group employees — for $34 an hour

American swimmer and six-time Olympic gold medal winner Ryan Lochte will be part of the teaching employees of the Missouri State swim program. 

Lochte will work as an assistant coach under head coach Dave Collins, which can start later this summer time after his contract is formally accepted by the college’s board of governors in June. 

According to his contract, obtained by Front Office Sports, Lochte will earn an estimated $30,000 and will probably be eligible for bonuses, which embody $750 for a Missouri Valley Conference males’s and girls’s championship or co-championship. 

There’s a $500 bonus for every NCAA Championship particular person qualifier and $500 for every relay group that qualifies for the NCAA Championship, in response to the outlet. 

Lochte’s contract worth, which breaks right down to $34.10 an hour, is in keeping with what assistants Anna Miller and Lee Smothers have made. 

Collins referred to as it “very” thrilling so as to add Lochte, a 12-time medalist on the Olympics, to the teaching employees and Lochte mentioned the teaching function could be “something I take seriously.”

“It’s about more than times and results,” Lochte mentioned. “It’s about helping young men and women build discipline, resilience and confidence that will carry them far beyond the pool. I’ve lived the highs and the challenges of this sport, and I want to use that perspective to guide them, support them and help them reach their full potential in and out of the water.”

Lochte is likely one of the most embellished swimmers in Olympic historical past and had a profitable faculty profession swimming on the University of Florida from 2003-07. 

While his accomplishments within the pool made him a star, his actions outdoors the sphere of competitors have additionally caught together with his legacy. 

Lochte was concerned with a scandal in the course of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the place he falsely claimed that he and three different members of the American swim group had been robbed at gunpoint, just for it to later come out that the group had vandalized a gasoline station lavatory. 

The swimmer was suspended for 10 months by USA Swimming over the incident. 

He was suspended for 14 months two years later after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency discovered that Lochte had obtained an IV infusion of nutritional vitamins of greater than 100mL throughout a 12-hour interval with out the correct exception wanted from the company.

He and his girlfriend, Molly Gillihan, have additionally been embroiled in a longtime social media-fueled feud with Lochte’s ex-wife, Kayla Rae Reid.