Joe Acquaviva Joins Girls’s Swimming & Diving As Assistant Coach

“I am thrilled to welcome Joe to the Tiger family and can’t wait for him to get started with us,” Brethauer stated. “Having had the privilege of working with him at Tufts, I know firsthand the passion, intelligence, and energy he brings to the pool deck and I am excited for our women to have the opportunity to work with him. Joe’s background as an elite swimmer at Johns Hopkins, combined with his experience as a head coach, makes him uniquely well-suited for this role, and I couldn’t be more excited for what lies ahead.”

Acquaviva joins the Tigers following three seasons as Franklin & Marshall’s head males’s and girls’s swimming coach.



Acquaviva discovered speedy success at Franklin & Marshall as he led the boys to an 8-1 twin report earlier than an eventual third place end on the Centennial Conference Championships. The girls’s crew went 7-3 throughout his inaugural season and captured fourth place on the convention championship meet. Acquaviva got here to F&M after record-breaking 5 seasons as the top assistant and affiliate head coach at Tufts University.

In the 2023-24 season, Acquaviva coached his first nationwide qualifiers for the Diplomats in Sam Kamdin, Matt Hurford, John Devaney and Ben Lockey. The quartet claimed All-American honors within the 200-yard freestyle relay. 

Acquaviva was elevated to the affiliate head coach of the Tufts swimming applications previous to the 2021-22 season and promptly helped the ladies’s crew to its first-ever NESCAC Championship and program-record seventh-place end on the NCAA Championships. The crew’s end on the NCAA Championships helped Tufts seize its first-ever Learfield Directors’ Cup Championship as probably the most profitable athletic division in Division III. He was additionally on employees for the boys’s crew when it received its first NESCAC Championship throughout the 2017-18 season and achieved a program-best seventh place end on the Division III Championships that very same yr.

Prior to becoming a member of the Tufts teaching employees, Acquaviva spent one season as an assistant coach at his alma mater – Johns Hopkins. During his six mixed seasons as an assistant coach, Acquaviva mentored over 200 All-Americans, seven nationwide champions, one nationwide report holder, an NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year, and two representatives at each the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Summer Olympics.

A 2014 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Acquaviva was a four-year letter winner and crew captain as a senior for the Blue Jays. During his aggressive profession, he was 10-time All-American, a College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American, and an NCAA nationwide champion as a part of the 800 freestyle relay. In the yr following his commencement, Acquaviva was on employees when this system had one NCAA Postgraduate Scholar and NCAA Elite 89 Award recipient. During that very same yr, Acquaviva obtained his grasp’s diploma from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Before becoming a member of the teaching ranks full time, Acquaviva spent two years as a water polo coach on the membership and highschool ranges with the William Penn Charter School. In addition to the groups ending with a few of the highest level totals within the college’s illustrious historical past on the Eastern Championships, they had been additionally residence to the 2016-2017 Male High School Swimmer of the Year. Acquaviva has additionally coached on the Plymouth and Ply-Mar Swim golf equipment since June of 2011.