Iowa Headvert Swim Coach Nathan Mundt Receives New 3-Year Contract, $15,500 Annual Increase

University of Iowa head ladies’s swimming & diving coach Nathan Mundt has acquired a brand new three 12 months contract that may maintain him on deck in Iowa City by at the very least the 2028-2029 season.

The new settlement features a base wage increase from $107,500 per 12 months to $123,000 per 12 months, a increase of $15,500 yearly.

Editor’s notice: these contracts solely embody cash that’s promised by the college and its athletics division and doesn’t embody any outdoors cash like endorsements or cash from booster golf equipment, which aren’t essentially topic to public report. Sometimes these different quantities are minor, and generally they’re vital.

His prior contract, which was a 5 12 months deal that took impact in June 2021, was as a result of expire on the finish of June.

The new contract is a couple of 14% increase, which is lower than the CPI Inflation fee over the identical interval (roughly 23%).

The new deal has additionally eliminated a number of incentives that existed within the outdated contract, together with:

• Team Top 10 Big Ten end ($2,000)
• Team Top 8 Big Ten end ($3,000)
• Individual Big Ten bronze medal ($1,000)
• Individual Big Ten silver medal ($1,500)
• Underrepresented minority GSR incentive ($1,500)

Instead, the brand new incentive construction is targeted on greater stage achievements, with the identical primary payouts for these greater stage achievements.

Incentive Structure

Category	Incentive	Amount
Academic Success	Top-1/2 of Big Ten for Women’s Swimming APR Multi-Year	$1,500
Academic Success	Top-1/2 of Big Ten for Women’s Swimming FGR	$1,500
Academic Success	Top-1/2 of Big Ten for Women’s Swimming GSR	$1,500
Big Ten Conference	Team Top 5 Conference Tournament Finish	$4,000
Big Ten Conference	Team Top 3 Conference Tournament Finish	$5,000
Big Ten Conference	Team Conference Tournament Champion	$10,000
Big Ten Conference	Individual Big Ten Champion	$3,000 per athlete
NCAA	Team NCAA Top 25	$7,000
NCAA	Team NCAA Top 15	$8,000
NCAA	Team NCAA Top 4	$15,000
NCAA	Team NCAA National Championship	$25,000
NCAA	Individual NCAA Qualifier	$1,000 per athlete
NCAA	Individual NCAA National Champion	$5,000 per athlete
Coach of the Year	NCAA National Coach of the Year	$5,000
Coach of the Year	Big Ten Coach of the Year	$2,500

The new contract additionally contains considerably decreased buyouts. For instance, in his outdated contract, if he had voluntarily left in 12 months 1, it will have price him twice his wage ($215,000). In the brand new deal, it will solely price him one 12 months of his wage ($123,000). Year 2 would price him half of a 12 months’s wage ($61,500) and 12 months 3 would don’t have any penalty.

The buyout could be waived if he leaves for a non-Division I head teaching job and offers 30 days’ discover.

Mundt was employed in 2021 to revive this system after the University of Iowa first minimize each its males’s and ladies’s groups, however then was pressured to reinstate the ladies’s program after a Title IX lawsuit.

He beforehand served as an assistant coach with this system from 2008-2016.

In the 2025-2026 season, the Hawkeyes set faculty data within the 50 free, 200 free relay, and 400 free relay. Those efforts have been pushed by freshman Payton Flowers, who completed eighth on the Big Ten Championships within the 50 free after a faculty report of 21.94 in prelims. She crushed the previous faculty report of twenty-two.55 set by Hannah Burvill in 2018.

Iowa has a deep recruiting class scheduled to reach within the fall, together with Yaya Nieckula from Illinois who arrives with a finest time of 53.47 within the 100 fly.