Maya Lovre Named Assistant Swimming Coach and Assistant Aquatics Director

CHICAGO — The University of Chicago males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups have named Maya Lovre as their new Assistant Swimming Coach and Assistant Director of Aquatics.

Lovre joins the University of Chicago swimming & diving teaching workers after spending two years because the Graduate Assistant Swimming Coach at Smith College. During her time in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lovre helped lead the workforce to the perfect convention end since 2008, and probably the most dual-meet wins in 40 years with a 9-3 dual-meet report.

Before becoming a member of the Maroons, Lovre labored with KING Aquatic Club in Tacoma, Washington, the place she launched a brand new Novice Age Group website workforce and managed the year-round competitors schedule for the Novice program. She additionally partnered with native Summer League groups to arrange and oversee Summer Dual Meets and Championship competitions for novice swimmers. In addition, Maya served as Assistant to KING Head Coach Alex Reed, working with the Olympic cycle coaching group and serving to coach two athletes who certified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

A four-year swimmer at Pacific Lutheran, Lovre earned her Bachelor’s diploma in Exercise Science with a minor in Sport and Exercise Psychology. She completed her profession with three particular person top-10 finishes within the NWC Championships and one 2nd-Team All-NWC honor. She additionally earned her Master’s diploma in Exercise and Sport Studies from Smith College in 2026.

Lovre and the University of Chicago males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups open their 2026-27 season at Myers-McLoraine Pool as they host Lewis University on Friday, October 23.