Whitney Hite Named Assistant Coach for Team USA 2026 Pan Pacific Championships

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – On Monday afternoon, the Team USA teaching employees for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships was introduced. Among the coaches chosen, Florida’s Senior Associate Head Coach Whitney Hite was named an assistant coach for the staff.

The 2026 Pan Pacific Championships will happen from August 10-15 in Irvine, Calif. The occasion is offered by One America Financial and can characteristic the Open Water 10k on August 10 and pool competitors from August 12-15.

Team USA’s teaching employees might be led by Bob Bowman director of swimming and diving on the University of Texas. Bowman is joined by Carol Capitani, Todd Desorbo, Dave Durden, Ray Looze, Chris Lindauer, Whitney Hite, Mohammad khadembashi and Stefani Wendelschaefer.

Hite’s teaching profession contains being an assistant coach for Team USA on the 2024 Paris Olympics, being the USA Swimming National Team coach (2011-16, 2018 and 2022), USA Swimming 2012 Short course World Championship males’s assistant coach, USA Swimming 2015 World Championship males’s assistant coach and USA Swimming 2017 World University Games males’s head coach. At Florida, Hite has helped each the boys’s and ladies’s groups turn out to be among the prime packages within the nation, has coached athletes who’ve collected greater than 175 All-American honors mixed and has coached quite a few Olympians.

In his eighth season with the Gators, the 2025-26 season was his first because the Senior Associate Head Coach for each the boys’s and ladies’s packages. This previous season, Hite was in a position to help within the males’s program taking second place on the NCAA Championships, recording this system’s finest end since 1985. The ladies’s program got here 10^th total within the NCAA Championships, marking the fourth consecutive yr of top-10 finishes.

The Pan Pacific Championships will characteristic swimmers throughout the globe, from nations such because the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan. From Florida, Emma Weyant and Bobby Finke will signify Team USA within the pool.

Team USA Coaching Staff

• Bob Bowman (Texas)
• Carol Capitani (Texas)
• Todd DeSorbo (Virginia)
• Dave Durden (California)
• Chris Lindauer (Stanford)
• Ray Looze (Indiana)
• Whitney Hite (Florida)
• Mohammad Khadembashi (TSM Aquatics)
• Stefani Wendelschaefer (NC State)

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