Curl Returns as Affiliate Head Swimming and Diving Coach

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ATHENS, Ohio – Head Ohio swimming and diving coach Mason Norman introduced right this moment (April 3) the return of Ethan Curl because the affiliate head swimming and diving coach.

“We are excited to welcome Ethan back to Athens,” Norman mentioned. “He has high level enthusiasm and experience that will help push the entire staff and team forward.”

Curl returns to Athens after spending the previous two seasons with Penn State, the place he served as assistant coach for the boys’s and girls’s swimming and diving crew, in addition to the recruiting coordinator. During his time at Penn State, Curl designed exercises and season plans for the gap swimmers, whereas additionally helping in coaching for all teams to assist develop them as student-athletes.  Curl directed all recruiting operations at Penn State, together with outreach, relationship constructing, coordination of visits, and web site contact and analysis competitions. Over the previous two seasons, Curl was part of bringing over 50 recruits to campus, leading to 22 commitments.

“I am truly excited and thankful for the opportunity to return to Ohio University,” Curl mentioned. “I want to sincerely thank Mason, Randee and Slade for their trust and belief in me. Ohio and the Athens community hold a special place, and I am eager to get to work with our student-athletes. I am looking forward to building on the strong foundation already in place and continuing to push the program to new heights.” 

Before Penn State, Curl was the assistant swimming and diving coach at Ohio, the place he additionally served because the recruiting coordinator. Curl assisted in crew administration and administrative duties whereas additionally designing exercises and coaching plans for all athletes. He was part of the workers that coached then-freshman Zita Szoke to the 2024 NCAA Championships, making her the primary qualifier in over a decade. Curl led all of the recruiting contacts and facilitated all on-campus recruiting occasions, bringing in 35 prospects, which led to 10 commitments, rating primary within the MAC. 

Before his first stint at Ohio, Curl spent two seasons at IUPUI as an assistant coach. While at IUPUI, Curl was tasked with main the middle-distance and distance freestyle teams in addition to the 400 IM’ers. In the 2022-2023 season, each the boys’s and girls’s groups had been Horizon League runners-up and had six NIC qualifiers and one champion and meet report holder. Curl additionally helped coach 15 convention champions and noticed six Horizon League convention information and 42 crew information damaged.

Prior to his time at IUPUI, Curl spent a season at Kentucky as a volunteer assistant, the place he helped the UK ladies’s crew win this system’s first SEC Championship within the 2020-2021 season. 

 

Curl was a four-year varsity swim crew member at Indiana from 2014-2018, specializing in distance freestyle. He was a member of two Big Ten Conference Championship Teams and the 2018 NCAA Third-Place crew. Curl was additionally a 2016 Olympic Trials qualifier and a 2017 World Championship Trials qualifier. 

 

Curl earned his B.S. in Kinesiology with a spotlight in Sport Marketing & Management from Indiana in 2018 and earned his grasp’s in enterprise administration with concentrations in Finance & Global Supply Chain Management from Northern Kentucky in 2022.

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