Chase Kreitler Resigns As Pitt Head Coach Efficient Instantly

Pitt head swimming and diving coach Chase Kreitler has resigned from his place, efficient instantly. Both the lads’s and girls’s applications are coming off of historic seasons, with the ladies having their highest end in historical past at NCAAs whereas the lads had their highest end in 73 years.

Kreitler wrote:

“Four years in the past, after I joined the University of Pittsburgh, my imaginative and prescient was to construct a powerhouse swimming and diving program the place student-athletes might obtain a world-class training and pursue any dream in our sport. This previous season, we noticed the outcomes of that work. Our girls’s staff earned the very best NCAA end in program historical past (T-Sixteenth) after going 4 years with out a person NCAA swimming qualifier previous to 2022. Our males’s staff recorded its highest NCAA end in 73 years (twentieth). The girls’s staff additionally confirmed a outstanding ACC Championship development—ending eleventh, tenth, eighth, and sixth—regardless of the addition of three new groups in 2024. Over these 4 years, we additionally had athletes qualify for the World Championships, World University Games and the U.S. Olympic Trials.

More significant than any outcome has been the non-public progress of our student-athletes, the transformation of our staff tradition, and the success of our graduates. Academic achievement has been distinctive, with many happening to prestigious graduate applications or coming into the workforce effectively ready. I’m particularly happy with the tradition we constructed collectively—one grounded in integrity, servant management, selflessness, and gratitude.

As I entered the ultimate 12 months of my contract, my hope was to proceed constructing on this momentum by a multi-year extension. I used to be lately knowledgeable that the division intends to maneuver in a special strategic course after the 2026–2027 season. While I used to be provided the chance to educate another 12 months, I don’t consider I might function in integrity persevering with to recruit transfers and incoming student-athletes understanding I might not be a part of their journey past subsequent season. Therefore, I’ve determined to resign from my place because the Head Swimming & Diving Coach at Pitt, efficient instantly.

This has been an extremely tough resolution for my household and me. We love this staff, our workers, the University, and the town of Pittsburgh. I’m deeply grateful to our student-athletes—your belief, effort, and perception in what we had been constructing are the explanations we climbed to this point, so quick. Thank you additionally to our teaching and assist workers, our father or mother group, and our alumni, whose unwavering assist has been the spine of this program.

As school athletics continues to evolve—by the House settlement, rising monetary pressures, and a lot uncertainty—I hope this second serves as a rallying cry for Olympic sports activities student-athletes and alumni in every single place. Your voice and involvement has by no means mattered extra.

Pitt Swimming & Diving holds a particular place in my coronary heart. I’ll at all times be happy with what we constructed collectively.

H2P!”

Kreitler arrived at Pitt in summer season 2022 after beforehand spending time as assistant coach at Cal. This previous season was the 4th season beneath Kreitler’s steerage.

Although SwimSwam has not acquired particular particulars on Kreitler’s wage, on the time of hiring, it was anticipated that Kreitler’s wage could be ~$175,000. Pitt’s athletics division notably ran a $47 million deficit in fiscal 12 months 2025 (July 1, 2024- June 30, 2025).

Since Kreitler was employed, Pitt has modified its athletic director as Allen Greene joined the Panthers in November 2024. Greene had earlier stops as Director of Athletics at Auburn from 2018-2022 in addition to Director of Athletics at Buffalo from 2015-2018. During his time at Buffalo, the lads’s swimming program was reduce.

The head teaching carousel has been comparatively quiet this offseason with the one Power 4 head teaching place change being at Cincinnati, however that already being stuffed with Joey Ferreri being elevated to move coach. Kreitler advised SwimSwam, “I absolutely plan to stay in coaching. I do not have a job lined up at the moment.”