Scott Stern Named Associate Head Coach – University of Cincinnati Athletics

CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving head coach, Joey Ferreri, has named Scott Stern as affiliate head coach.

“I am excited to announce the promotion of Scott Stern to Associate Head Coach. Scott has been instrumental in the success of our program throughout his time at Cincinnati. His tireless work ethic, loyalty and commitment to our student-athletes has made a huge impact on our teams success. Scott embodies the values of our program and is a great reflection of what it means to be a Bearcat. I am incredibly grateful to have him by my side as we enter this new era of Cincinnati Swimming & Diving!” stated Ferreri.

// SCOTT STERN

Stern is heading into his fourth yr on the Bearcats workers after becoming a member of within the Fall of 2023. 

In his first season with the Bearcats, Stern helped the Bearcats of their inaugural season of the Big 12 Conference with fourth-place finishes for each the lads’s and ladies’s packages. The girls have been capable of defeat #22 Northwestern and convention rival West Virginia early within the season. Both packages had NCAA qualifiers for the primary time since 2017. Senior, Hunter Gubeno certified within the 200 backstroke after breaking the varsity file with a time of 1:39.95 and Sophomore, Joleigh Crye made it again once more within the 100 breaststroke with a time of 58.24, breaking her earlier file. At NCAA, Crye was capable of earn All-American Honors with a Thirteenth-place end. The group’s success carried over to the 2024 US Olympic Team Trials, the place each Gubeno and Crye had standout performances, qualifying them for the semi-finals.

In 2025, Stern helped lead the Bearcats by way of a historic season. The girls opened the Big 12 Conference Championship with a program-record and NCAA “A” Standard time within the 200 Medley Relay, marking the Bearcats’ first relay qualification for the NCAA Championships since 1976. Both the lads’s and ladies’s groups went on to win their first Big 12 Conference titles in program historical past. Individually, Crye captured the 100 Breast title on the ladies’s aspect, whereas Hunter Gubeno claimed victory within the males’s 200 Backstroke. At the NCAA Championships, Joleigh Crye earned All-American honors with a 4th-place end within the 100 Breaststroke. Crye went on to earn the 2025 UC Student-Athlete of the Year award. The girls’s group additionally set a record-setting 3.734 cumulative group GPA over the spring semester.  Overall, the groups posted 19 First/Second Team All-Big 12 performances, 17 new college information and earned eight top-three finishes on the Big 12 Championships.

In the 2025-26 season, he guided the Bearcats by way of their third season within the Big 12 gathering a fourth-place group Big 12 Championship end (tied highest and finest with 10 groups), UC’s first back-to-back Big 12 Champion, 42 top-ten performances, eight All-Big 12 First/Second Team, eight CSC Academic All-District winners, two college information and an 3.7665 record-high group GPA. Individually, Crye grabbed a back-to-back Big 12 Championship title within the 100 Breaststroke title, earned her second consecutive First group All-American honors on the NCAA Championships. Lindi Worrell additionally competed on the NCAA Championships within the 100 Breaststroke, inserting twenty first general. Crye additionally was named Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the yr, whereas Mia Hensley earned Big 12 Women’s Scholar Athlete of the yr. On the lads’s aspect, they claimed 9 All-Big 12 First/Second Team and 6 Big 12 Student-Athlete of the week awards.

As a student-athlete, Stern was a group captain and competed in 10 occasions over three Atlantic 10 Championships at Fordham from 2017-21. He was additionally a three-year honoree of the Atlantic 10 Commissioner Honor Roll, named to this system’s Atlantic 10 twenty fifth Anniversary group and represented on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. 
 
He was additionally a recipient of the Benedict T. Harter Award, an award that’s offered to the Gabelli School of Business senior athlete who has made vital educational and athletic contributions.  
 
He obtained his bachelor’s diploma in advertising from Fordham in 2021 and added a grasp’s in sports activities administration from Northwestern in 2022.