Bishop To Be Inducted into CSCAA Hall of Fame

Former longtime TCNJ males’s and swimming and diving head coach Brian Bishop has been chosen for induction into the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) Division III Hall of Fame, Class of 2026.
 
Bishop shall be formally enshrined alongside 20 different legends of collegiate swimming and diving on May 3, 2026 on the CSCAA Annual Awards Celebration in Chicago.
 
This recognition honors swimmers, divers, and coaches whose distinctive careers have made a long-lasting affect on Division III swimming and diving,” said CSCAA Executive Director Samantha Barany. “We have fun these inductees not just for their achievements in competitors however for the significant contributions they’ve made to their packages, their communities, and the game as an entire.”
 
Bishop spent 29 extremely profitable years on the helm of the lads’s swimming and diving program at TCNJ, guiding the Lions to 18 Metropolitan Conference titles, eight NJAC workforce titles, and a exceptional 23 top-20 finishes on the NCAA Championships; that tally contains seven top-10 workforce finishes, three of which got here in his final 5 seasons. Bishop racked up a twin meet file of 232-57 throughout his TCNJ tenure.
 
Bishop coached two particular person nationwide champions (Matt Stoll in 1994 and Steve Swenson in 2006) in addition to 4 relay nationwide champions (200/400 free relay in 2014, 400/800 free relay in 2015). Under Bishop’s watch, a complete of 72 completely different student-athletes earned a whopping 271 All-America awards. Bishop additionally produced an Olympic swimmer in Davy Bisslik, who competed within the 100 fly in Athens, Greece in 2004.
 
Bishop’s expenses additionally shined within the classroom. The Lions collected 10 CSCAA All-Academic Team honors throughout his profession, with 21 people being named CSCAA All-Academic Athletes. Andrew Girman was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2000.
 
Highly revered on the planet of collegiate swimming, Bishop was chosen because the Division III National Coach of the Year after the 2014-15 marketing campaign, when the Lions positioned sixth on the NCAA Championships to match their finest end in program historical past; TCNJ garnered 25 All-American citations and received a pair of relay nationwide titles. He was additionally a 14-time MET Coach of the Year and 7-time NJAC Coach of the Year, and twice acquired the Roy Van Ness Award, given yearly to a TCNJ coach for excellent success and management.
 
Bishop served because the coach for the Aruba nationwide workforce in a 2004 World Cup meet in Stockholm, Sweden and in addition served as an advisor to the Aruba Olympic Committee. He was president of the MET Conference for six years. Bishop acquired a service award from AAHPERD in 1989 and one from the NJSIAA in 2001.
 
Additional details about the CSCAA’s Hall of Fame inductees and ceremony could be discovered on the CSCAA web site at cscaa.org/division-iii-hall-of-fame.