North Texas Nadadores Add Former Arizona Headvert Coach Augie Busch To Workers

The North Texas Nadadores (NTN) have employed Augie Busch to its teaching workers, head coach Scott Ellis has confirmed to SwimSwam.

Busch, the longtime University of Arizona head coach, will grow to be one of many membership’s new Lead Coaches, the place he’ll work with swimmers from the Developmental Groups to the Senior degree.

“The North Texas Nadadores are excited to welcome Augie Busch to our talented coaching staff,” Ellis mentioned. “His technical knowledge and mindset regarding the developmental process fit perfectly into how we are building the team. We are excited about the collaborative process our coaching staff is undertaking to work together across all levels within our club.”

Busch will take over the teams beforehand slated to be coached by Jim Smith, who’s not with the membership. Smith was listed as a coach with the membership of their most up-to-date publication issued on Sept. 7.

NTN additionally not too long ago misplaced its former head coach Jason Roberts, who took a job with the Franklin Regional Swim Team in April to be nearer to household.

Ellis then got here in as the brand new head coach in June and applied a little bit of a unique, collaborative format with the membership, the place coaches work with each senior and age group ranges.

Ellis joined NTN from the Y-Spartaquatics Swim Club in South Carolina, the place he led the group to the general and boys’ group titles in back-to-back years on the 2024 and 2025 YMCA LCM National Championships.

Busch beforehand coached at Arizona for seven seasons, taking up previous to the 2017-18 marketing campaign earlier than being let go in May 2024.

During his tenure, the Wildcats’ males’s group completed as excessive as twelfth on the NCAA Championships (2021), whereas the ladies’s group’s finest end was 14th (2019).

Prior to Arizona, Busch was the pinnacle coach on the University of Virginia for 4 years (2013-17), successful three ladies’s ACC titles, incomes a pair of top-five NCAA finishes, and being named the ACC Women’s Coach of the Year thrice.

He additionally labored as the pinnacle coach at Houston for 2 seasons (2011-13), and previous to that, was an assistant at Arizona, his alma mater, from 2003 to 2011 below father Frank Busch.

NTN additionally introduced that Brenna Reynolds and Izzy Mahendra might be formally becoming a member of the workers and dealing with a few of the junior teams.

The membership is presently in search of a second Lead Coach to work in the identical position as Busch.

The Nadadores not too long ago despatched one swimmer, Ella McWhorter, to the 2026 U.S. Junior National Championships. The Texas A&M commit received bronze within the ladies’ 50 breaststroke and likewise positioned fifth within the 100 breast.

McWhorter, beforehand with the Lakeside Aquatic Club, additionally received gold within the 50 breast and silver within the 100 breast on the Speedo Sectionals in Austin in July, whereas Finley Laurence additionally scored factors for NTN on the boys’ facet, putting fifth within the 1500 free and eighth within the 800 free.