2022 UNC Swimming Camps Are Here!
The 2022 UNC Swimming Camps look forward to hosting you for a lively swimming experience in beautiful Chapel Hill. UNC Head Coach, two-time Olympic Gold-Medalist Mark Gangloff, along with the rest of the UNC Swimming Staff will be among the staff for the 2022 Carolina Swim Camps. Mark Gangloff and his staff look forward to sharing their knowledge and time with you to help foster champion swimmers in all! Camps are open to swimmers of all ages, abilities, and levels. We look forward to having you!
2022 UNC Swimming Camps – Sign Up Here
June 13th – June 17th 2022
Commuter $525
Residential $675
The Foundations of Training Carolina Swim Camp is an all-encompassing swimming experience for athletes. The focus of this camp is to address training habits, technique, and athlete development at the start of their summer seasons. Located at the Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, NC, campers will have the opportunity to swim in the same great facility and work with the same world-class staff the UNC’s Men’s & Women’s Swim Teams have. Camps are open to swimmers of all ages, abilities, and levels.
June 19th – June 23rd 2022
Fee: TBA
Open training opportunity for club programs to use the Koury Natatorium for workouts. Coaches will provide instruction and discuss topics pertaining to the sport
Carolina Mental Skills Development Camp
June 30th – July 1st 2022
Commuter $200
Residential $250
The Carolina Mental Skills Development Camp is a new camp focusing on the mental side of swimming. With the rise of sport and performance psychology, it is essential that swimmers work on developing their mental game. This camp includes classroom sessions to teach the way athletes think, the skill of focus, goal-setting, and mental toughness. These concepts are then taken to the pool and applied in the water. Located in Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, NC, campers will have the opportunity to learn optimal performance thinking from a professional sport psychology consultant, UNC Swimming coaches, and UNC swimmers. Camps are open to swimmers of all ages, abilities, and levels.
Register for Carolina Mental Skills Development Camp here
All Around Camp
July 5th – July 9th 2022
Commuter $525
Residential $675
The All-Around Carolina Swim Camp is an all-encompassing swimming experience for athletes. The focus of these camps is to address technique, training, and skill development of all four strokes, along with Starts & Turns. Located at the Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, NC, campers will have the opportunity to swim in the same great facility and work with the same world-class staff the UNC’s Men’s & Women’s Swim Teams have. Camps are open to swimmers of all ages, abilities, and levels.
Register for All Around Camp #1 here
Mark Gangloff, Head Coach
Mark Gangloff, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the most dynamic young leaders in the world of collegiate swimming, was named the head coach for the men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs at the University of North Carolina in May 2019. Gangloff spent seven years at the University of Missouri where he served as the Tigers’ associate head coach for two seasons before coming to Chapel Hill.
“Mark Gangloff is greatly respected in international and collegiate swimming and diving and has a passion for coaching and developing student-athletes,” says UNC Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham. “His swimmers have demonstrated improvement and success, and he is known for his ability to relate with and motivate student-athletes. He’s an Olympic gold medalist, captained a national championship-winning team at Auburn and a number of USA Swimming teams in international competitions, and has developed swimmers at Missouri for the past seven years. We look forward to Mark taking our men’s and women’s programs to another level in the years to come.”
“I would like to thank Mr. Cunningham for the opportunity to serve the University of North Carolina as head swimming and diving coach,” says Gangloff. “I am grateful to those coaches, support staff and athletes who have come before me and look forward to honoring them through my work. Building on recent individual successes and a rich history of program excellence, I can’t wait to lead UNC swimming and diving to new heights. The culture of academic and athletic excellence at the University of North Carolina is second to none. I am excited to work with current and future Tar Heel swimmers and divers to achieve their academic and athletic dreams.
The results of Gangloff’s hard work continued to pay off during year two in Chapel Hill. The women finished 12th at the 2021 NCAA Championship, while the men placed 24th. The men’s squad also finished sixth at the 2021 ACC Championships, the program’s best showing in five years.
At the 2021 NCAA Championship, the Tar Heels had a total of seven first team and five honorable mention All-America individual performances, while two relay teams earned first team honors and two others honorable mention. Meanwhile, diving standouts Anton Down-Jenkins and Aranza Vazquez each earned Most Valuable Diver honors at the ACC Championships. Down-Jenkins won the gold medal in both the 1- and 3-meter events, while Vazquez took first in the 3-meter and platform events and a silver in the 1-meter. Down-Jenkins (New Zealand) and Vazquez (Mexico) later competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021.
During Gangloff’s first season in 2019-20, Carolina’s swimmers and divers showed tremendous growth at both the conference and national levels. The women’s and men’s programs rose three spots at the ACC Championship meets, finishing four and seventh, respectively, while a total of 13 individuals qualified for the NCAA Championship meet – nine women and four men.
Carolina would set a combined nine team records over the course of Gangloff’s inaugural season. In addition, UNC boasted a total of 49 members on the ACC Academic Honor Roll, 14 athletes earned All-America honors and 12 were selected on the All-ACC Academic Team. The program had a Top-10 Scholar Athlete and a Top-6 Service Athlete, an award handed out by the ACC.
In his seven years at Mizzou, Gangloff led the Tigers to five top-15 finishes at both the men’s and women’s NCAA Championships. The Tiger men posted back-to-back top-10 NCAA results in 2016 and 2017, with the 2016 team finishing a program-best eighth nationally and Fabian Schwingenschlogl winning the first NCAA title in school history in the 100 breaststroke. That same year the Tiger women also had an all-time best team finish, placing 11th overall.
Before his time at Missouri, Gangloff spent three years a volunteer assistant coach at Auburn, his alma mater. During his time on the Auburn coaching staff, he assisted with stroke technique, race strategy and strength and conditioning.
From 2007-09, Gangloff coached at Swim MAC Carolina in Charlotte, N.C., where he assisted in the development and implementation of program and training design. He also provided instruction on race strategy and post-race coaching for swimmers ages 10-18.
On the international stage, Gangloff made his first Olympic team in 2004, when he won a gold medal as part of the 400 medley relay in Athens. Four years later he qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games and was part of the 400 medley relay that won gold in Beijing.
At the World Championships, Gangloff was a three-time gold medalist in the 400 medley relay. He also won silver in the 50 breaststroke in 2005 and bronze in the same event in 2009. He was a team captain on both the 2009 and 2011 world teams as well as the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships and USA National Championships teams, the 2008 Short Court World Championships team and the 2010 Duel in the Pool, where he helped set a world record in the 400 medley relay.
Additionally, Gangloff participated in the Pan-American Games in 1999, 2003 and 2007, earning gold medals in the 400 medley relay in 2003 and 2007, gold in the 100 breast in 2003 and bronze in the 200 breast in 1999.
As a collegiate swimmer at Auburn, Gangloff helped the Tigers to NCAA team titles in 2003 and 2004 and four straight SEC team titles. Individually, Gangloff earned 12 total All-America honors and won SEC titles in the 100 and 200 breast and the 200 and 400 medley relays.
A native of Akron, Ohio, Gangloff earned a degree in criminology from Auburn in 2005. He and his wife Ashley, a former national champion diver at Auburn, have three daughters, Annabelle, Hattie Rose and Kathryn.
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