Greg Meehan

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Meehan at the 2023 Pac-12 Championships

Greg Meehan is an American swimming coach, as well as the women's head coach for the Stanford swim team. In 2016, Meehan was selected to be an assistant coach for the US Women's Olympic Swimming Team.[1] Meehan coached Katie Ledecky, Maya DiRado, Simone Manuel, and Lia Neal to eleven gold medals, seven silver medals, and two bronze medals.[2][3][4] He formerly served as an associate head coach at the University of California, Berkeley (also called Cal).[5] Prior to Cal, Meehan was the men's and women's head coach at University of the Pacific.[6] As a collegiate athlete, Meehan swam at Rider University, in New Jersey, as a backstroker.[7]

In 2018, Meehan was announced as the head coach for women on the 2020 US Olympic Swim Team.[8][9][10] The women's team had a total of 35 members including pool and open water swimmers.[11] He had five assistant coaches as part of his coaching team for the Olympic Games, there were a total of eight assistant coaches for both men and women.[12] Under his coaching guidance, the women achieved 18 total Olympic medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in July and August 2021, including three gold medals.[13]

For the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, Meehan was one of five assistant coaches selected to the coaching squad for pool swimmers at the Championships.[14] At the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships, held at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, he coached Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers to the second-largest winning margin by a team in a 27 year time period, 485 points, with a combined team score of 1725.5 points.[15] He was named the Pac-12 Conference Women's Swimming Coach of the Year for the 2022–2023 season.[16]

Awards and honors

References

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  8. ↑ "Greg Meehan '98 Named the Head Coach for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Women's Swimming Team". Rider Broncs. December 4, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  9. ↑ Hemker, James (December 5, 2018). "Greg Meehan named head coach for USA women's swimming in the 2020 Olympics". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  10. ↑ Sutherland, James (June 17, 2021). "Who Will Be Team USA's Assistant Swimming Coaches In Tokyo?". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  11. ↑ "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming: National Team Director, Women's Olympic Head Coach, Men's Olympic Head Coach Media Conference". USA Swimming. June 20, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  12. ↑ Gibbs, Robert (June 20, 2021). "USA Swimming Announces 8 Assistant Coaches For Tokyo Olympics". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  13. ↑ Grybowski, Adam (August 6, 2021). "Olympic women's swimming team shines under head coach Greg Meehan '01". Rider University. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  14. ↑ "2022 FINA World Championships Roster". USA Swimming. April 30, 2022. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Dominant Display". Stanford Cardinal. February 25, 2023. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Pac-12 Swim Awards Sweep". Stanford Cardinal. March 23, 2023. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
  17. ↑ Anderson, Jared (November 20, 2017). "Full 2017-2018 Golden Goggles Winners List". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Katie Ledecky and Ryan Murphy win Golden Goggles awards". Olympics.com. November 20, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  19. ↑ Ross, Andy (November 19, 2018). "2018 Golden Goggles: Katie Ledecky, Ryan Murphy Win Athlete of the Year Awards". Swimming World. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  20. ↑ "Pac-12 Announces 2022 Women's Swimming & Diving Postseason Awards". SwimSwam. April 5, 2022. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  21. ↑ "Meehan Inducted into HOF". Stanford Cardinal. June 11, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  22. ↑ Ortegon, Karl (June 12, 2017). "Greg Meehan Inducted Into Rider University Hall Of Fame". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  23. ↑ Neidigh, Lauren (January 1, 2020). "2019 Swammy Awards: US Coach Of The Year Greg Meehan". SwimSwam. Retrieved April 5, 2022.


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