The Miami University Redhawks men’s swimming and diving program has hired Dan Carrington as a full-time assistant. Carrington comes from Duke, where he was a volunteer assistant last season. He will work under Miami head coach Pete Lindsay, who has led the Miami men’s programs for 30 years.
Prior to Duke, Carrington got experience as the head coach at Southwestern University in the NCAA’s Division III, and before that as the head coach of the San Antonio Wave club in San Antonio, Texas, and as the head coach for Blue Devil Aquatics (simultaneously with another volunteer assistant role at Duke).
Carrington’s biggest individual honor as a coach to date came in 2011, when the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) awarded him an “Award of Excellence.”
This will move Carrington back into full-time coaching, after time spent divided with other ventures. Specifically, while in his latest role as a volunteer assistant at Duke, he was working as a chemist providing quality control on pharmaceutical products.
The Miami Redhawks were 4th out of 7 teams at last year’s Mid-American Conference Championships, 306 points behind conference champions Missouri State. The team didn’t lose any top-8 finishers from last year’s MAC Championship meet, but have only brought in a very small four-swimmer class.
Those four, though, are all immediate-impact type swimmers. Ross Westrick, for example, comes in with bests of 20.84/46.32/1:41.31 in the 50/100/200 yard freestyles, which should help him score at least 20 points at the MAC Championships.
Carrington takes over for former U.S. Olympian Scott Usher, who has moved into a role as a fundraiser within the Miami Athletics Department.