Keaton Burke Named Subsequent Catholic Swimming and Diving Coach

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – The Catholic males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving packages will welcome Keaton Burke as its subsequent head coach efficient June 29. Burke inherits a program that has been among the many greatest within the Landmark over the previous decade. 

Burke takes over this system after spending the earlier three seasons because the assistant coach at Salisbury throughout an especially sturdy run for this system. Most just lately within the 2025-26 season, he helped information the Seagulls to the second NJAC championship in program historical past on the ladies’s aspect, whereas the boys’s workforce reached as excessive as quantity 17 within the nationwide ballot and produced the primary ever NJAC particular person champion in program historical past. Across the boys’s and ladies’s packages, Burke assisted in mentoring 18 athletes who qualfied for the NCAA Championships in the course of the 2025-26 season which was a program file. The Seagulls girls’s workforce additionally gained a convention championship within the 2024-25 season and Burke and the remainder of the workers had been acknowledged because the NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year.

“I couldn’t be more excited to become the new head coach of the swimming and diving program at Catholic University,” mentioned Burke. “I want to thank Meghan McDonogh, Kevin Robinson, and the rest of the search committee for the opportunity to take this next step in my career and lead this program.”

Before his time at Salisbury, Burke spent a season as an assistant coach at Fairfield University the place the Stags girls’s workforce gained the MAAC Championship and had seven particular person convention champions together with the convention swimmer of the 12 months. The program had 23 student-athletes qualify for the CSCAA National Invitational and had two program file setters on the occasion. He additionally spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Notre Dame the place the workforce had 9 athletes break college information and despatched eight athletes to the NCAA Championships. 

“Throughout the interview process, Keaton consistently demonstrated the vision, leadership, and preparation we were seeking in our next head coach,” mentioned Meghan McDonogh, Senior Associate Athletic Director. “His thoughtful approach, diverse coaching experiences, positive energy, and genuine enthusiasm for the opportunity here only further reinforced our belief that he is ready to lead his own program and is an outstanding fit for both our swimming and diving team and the Catholic University athletics department. We are excited to welcome him to Catholic University!”

As a student-athlete, Burke was a four-year member of the boys’s swimming program at Salisbury. He was a recipient of the Jean Freeman Scholarship which is given to 6 student-athletes yearly for people whose contributions have introduced recognition to their establishment by exhibiting management, integrity, honesty, aggressive angle and private graciousness. 

“Keaton brought an energy and professionalism during the interview process that made it clear he would be a perfect fit for our program at Catholic University,” mentioned Kevin Robinson, Vice President for Athletics and Recreation. “We are so excited for him to come in and continue to build on the legacy that our swim programs have built in the Landmark and push our athletes to reach new heights and goals.”