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Dave Jennings
Head Coach
Phone: 513-529-8153
Fax: 513-529-6729
jenninda@muohio.edu
Now in his 27th season at the helm of the Miami University women's swimming and diving team, head coach Dave Jennings continues to lead a program that defines excellence in the Mid-American Conference. Under his tutelage, the RedHawks have won 14 MAC titles, including four in the last seven seasons, and produced a conference dual-meet record of 127-26 that included a streak of 48 straight MAC dual-meet victories from 2002-07. Jennings's 2008-09 team is expected to compete for the MAC title, having been chosen as the No. 2-ranked team in the conference's pre-season poll. Last year's RedHawks placed fourth at the MAC Championships, while Karen Frazier, Allison Stevens and Kelsey Vehr all earned all-MAC honors. Frazier also qualifed for the U.S. Olympic Trials. She, Stevens and diver Melissa Roemmele all were chosen for the MAC's all-academic team. The 2006-07 campaign was a banner season for the RedHawks, as Jennings guided Miami to a 12-0 dual-meet record, the program's first perfect regular season in 30 years. After opening their season with a 186-112 victory over Akron, Jennings and the RedHawks steamrolled through their regular-season slate, winning their 12 dual meets by an average of 80 points. Miami also posted its sixth straight season with an unblemished MAC dual-meet mark after defeating all seven conference opponents. Jennings and the RedHawks ended the season ranked No. 4 in the CollegeSwimming.com Division I Mid-Major Poll. During Jennings' career, the one common theme has been his ability to win championships. His RedHawks have won eight of the last 13 MAC titles, and they have finished as the champion or the runner-up in the conference in 22 of his 25 seasons. Five classes--1986, 1987, 1988, 1999 and 2005--have won every MAC title for which they competed, and the 2004-05 season marked the third time in his career that Jennings achieved a conference title "four-peat." Jennings began his career at Miami by winning six straight titles from 1983-88, and he also won four in a row from 1996-99. A 1996 inductee into the Miami Athletic Hall of Fame, Jennings has earned MAC Coach of the Year plaudits on nine occasions, including four consecutive seasons from 1983 through 1986. Most recently, Jennings was named MAC Coach of the Year in 1998. Over Jennings' 26 seasons, 189 MAC individual and relay champions have worn the Red and White. In addition, 27 Miami athletes have been NCAA qualifiers, 81 have been U.S. Senior National qualifiers and eight have been Olympic trial qualifiers. Jennings also has mentored four MAC Scholar-Athletes of the Year, one Miami Female Athlete of the Year (Carly Iagulli, 1998) and the Miami Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, Tish Bucher. Prior to arriving in Oxford, Jennings was a teacher and head men's swimming coach at Upper Arlington High School from 1979 through 1982. He was voted Coach of the Year in Ohio following the 1982 season. During his tenure at Upper Arlington, Jennings also was director of the Amateur Upper Arlington Swim Club. Prior to assuming the coaching position at Upper Arlington, Jennings served as a swimming instructor and coach at Coshocton High School in Coshocton, Ohio, where he led the school to a top-ten team finish and its first conference championship. Jennings is a 1978 graduate of Ashland College where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in physical education. While at Ashland, Jennings was a member of a swimming team that placed second at the Penn-Ohio Championships and ninth at the NCAA Division III Championships. Originally from Lexington, Ohio, Jennings and his wife, Kathy, have two sons, Blake (23) and Tyler (20), and reside in Oxford.
DAVE JENNINGS BY THE NUMBERS (Through Mar. 2008)
222 -- Career Dual Meet Wins at Miami
189 -- Mid-American Conference Individual/Relay Champions
27 -- Senior National Qualifiers
27 -- NCAA Qualifiers
14 -- Mid-American Conference Championships (1983-88;1996-99; 2002-05)
8 -- Mid-American Conference Runner-Up Finishes
8 -- Olympic Trial Qualifiers
4 -- Mid-American Conference Scholar Athletes of the Year
4 -- Mid-American Conference Divers of the Year
2 -- Mid-American Conference Swimmers of the Year
2 -- NCAA All-Americans
1 -- Miami Female Athlete of the Year
(Carly Iaguli-1998)
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