Indiana University has promoted Emily Eaton to assistant head coach in her 3rd season with the programs. In addition to associate head coach Cory Chitwood and associate head coach John Long, Jr., now 3 of the team’s 4 full-time assistants have upgraded titles heading into the 2021-2022 season. All three of those coaches joined the team prior to the 2019-2020 season.
Press Release Courtesy: Indiana Athletics
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana head swimming coach Ray Looze announced the promotion of Emily Eaton to assistant head coach on Thursday.
“I am excited to promote Emily to an assistant head coach here at Indiana University,” said Looze. “In a very short period of time, she has proven to be a fantastic coach, recruiter, and leader. We look forward to many more years with Coach Eaton here at IU.”
Eaton enters her third season as a swimming coach for Indiana in 2021-22 and her first season as the Director of Men’s and Women’s Recruiting.
During her first two seasons at Indiana, Eaton has helped the Hoosiers achieve four top-3 finishes at the Big Ten Championships. IU has produced 26 All-Big Ten swimmers, two Big Ten Swimmers of the Championships and one Big Ten Freshman of the Championships during her tenure.
At the 2021 NCAA Championships, Indiana finishes sixth on the men’s side and 15th in the women’s meet. The squad combined for 47 All-American honors from 17 different swimmers.
Eaton arrived in Bloomington after two seasons at Missouri including the 2018-19 year as an assistant coach and the program’s director of operations since June 2017. During her time with the Tigers, Eaton helped the program to a men’s second-place finish at the 2018-19 Southeastern Conference Championships and 11th place finish at NCAA Championships. The women placed seventh in the SEC last season and 22nd at national championships. She coached 17 All-Americans during her tenure.
Eaton came to Mizzou from Albion College, where she was an assistant coach for the 2016-17 season. With the Brits, she helped the program achieve a history-making campaign as the men’s team claimed its first Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship since 1971. At the NCAA Championships, the men’s team finished 13th, highlighted by two All-America first team and four All-America honorable mention performances.
Before Albion, Eaton coached at the Genesys Athletic Club in Grand Blanc, Mich. She began as assistant coach in 2012 and was elevated to head coach in 2014. Under her direction, Genesys achieved its best-ever conference finish in her first season at the helm before claiming the dual meet championship in 2016.
Eaton was a three-time All-American at Grand Valley State and still holds top 10 program times in three different events. She also earned Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America honors all four years.
She earned a bachelor’s of science in Secondary Education with a triple emphasis in mathematics, health, and physical education in 2016. Eaton later earned her master’s of education in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri in 2020.
She’s fantastic! Great direction for IU!
So happy!! She’s such a great leader and person!
The Ray Looze “Tree of Success”has many branches. Few have grown and flourished as much as Emily Eaton! Congrats to Emily!
Does this mean she will write practices now?
This is why IU is the best institution to ever exist!! Congratulations Emily!!
Congrats Emily! She was great at Mizzou, was very sad for the program when I heard she left. Indiana has a good one!
The mizzou swimmers weren’t very sad…
2nd that
What is the purpose of this comment?To bad mouth a good coach who only wanted the mizzou swimmers to succeed and worked hard to help them do so? If your goal is to bring Emily down, consider doing so with your full name and not an alias.
Congratulations on the promotion Emily. You earned it!
Lol come on Nick you and I both know that you used to come onto the comments to anonymously badmouth people all the time. Don’t act all holier-than-thou now.
What is the difference between Associate Head Coach and Assistant Head Coach?
Payscale.
For IU its a way to congratulate a female coach who has stayed on deck more than two years.
More like it’s a way to congratulate a coach who has done an incredible job thus far.. just look at the recruiting classes coming to IU! Way to go coach Emily!
no it is not, it is a payscale issue, forced by being part of a college, do not be d……