Swimming Provides Assistant Coach Caitlin DeNise

TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona Swimming and Diving has added Caitlin DeNise to their award-winning teaching employees as an Assistant Coach, Head Coach Ben Loorz introduced on Thursday.

DeNise involves Tucson following 5 seasons at Lewis & Clark College — she started her tenure with the River Otters as an assistant coach for 2 years earlier than shifting into an interim head teaching function for the 2023-24 season and finally incomes the full-time head coach place for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons.

“We are excited to welcome Caitlin and her husband Wes to the Wildcat family,” Loorz mentioned. “Coach DeNise is a veteran coach with a great breadth and depth of experience. From the college to club level, assistant coach to head coach, she brings a great base of knowledge and a proven track record of treating athletes well.”

While at Lewis & Clark, DeNise developed 31 all-conference student-athletes and guided the River Otters to 13 program information and over 60 prime 10 instances in program historical past. As the Lewis & Clark head coach, DeNise steered the boys’s facet to 370 factors on the 2024-25 Northwest Conference Championship, their most since 1998, and the ladies’s facet to 217 factors on the 2025-26 NWC Championship, their most in six years.

“I look forward to joining Arizona Swimming and Diving, a program with a championship tradition and momentum building around it,” DeNise mentioned. “I would like to thank Coach Loorz for trusting me with this opportunity. I am excited to work together with this incredible group of student-athletes and coaches to bring championships to Tucson.”

DeNise’s expertise additionally consists of time as an assistant coach at Cal State Easy Bay from 2018–21, a senior assistant coach with the Pleasanton Seahawks from 2016–18, and an assistant coach at University of the Pacific from 2015–16.

Prior to her teaching profession, DeNise swam collegiately at Cal State East Bay the place she certified for the NCAA DII Finals within the 100 butterfly and earned the college’s Female Athlete of the Year award. Her program information within the 100 butterfly (54.78) and the 100 butterfly (54.78) at Cal State East Bay nonetheless stand to at the present time.

DeNise is joined in Tucson by her husband, Wes.