SWIMMING & DIVING COACHES

OFFICE: B323 Tuttle North Athletic Complex
PHONE: (585) 395-5344
E-MAIL: jstover@brockport.edu

Head Coach: Jack Stover III

Jack Stover III enters his second year as the Swimming and Diving Head Coach and Aquatics Coordinator at The College at Brockport in the 2009-2010 season. He replaced Dr. Greg (Doc) Kenney who retired at the end of the 2007-08 season after a 30-year coaching career.
Stover is the fourth head coach in the history of the Brockport program that started in 1946 under James Fulton.

In Stover’s first year on the pool deck, the Golden Eagles broke six individual and three relay school records and had a diver qualify for the NCAA Division III Championship. The Brockport men finished sixth at the SUNYAC Championship with 189 points, and the women scored 154 points for seventh place.

Under Stover’s guidance, Daniel Brigano and Maria Quagliana each broke the one and three meter diving records for the men and women. Catie Swartz set the 50 and 100 freestyle records at the SUNYAC Championships and was part of the school record 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays. Quagliana was named a second-team All-Conference selection and qualified for the NCAA Championships for both the three-meter and one-meter and finished 20th and 22nd, respectively.

Prior to Brockport, Stover was the assistant swimming and diving coach at the University of Rochester for three years. Under his tutelage, Rochester recorded 15 individual Conference champions and two relay champions. Before joining Rochester, Stover was the assistant swimming and diving coach at Alfred University.

In his career, he coached the Diamond Farms Swim Team in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2003 and co-founded and coached the Naples White Dolphin Swim Team in the United States Swimming Association Club from 2000-2002.

Stover earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education with a minor in Coaching from Alfred University in 2004. While there, he was a member of the Saxons swimming & diving team. He was named captain in the 2003-04 season and was part of the Upstate New York State Collegiate Swimming Association (UNYSCSA) Championship Swim Team in 2003 and was also selected as an UNYSCSA All-Academic team in 2004.

While at Naples Central School, he was a member of the New York State Championship soccer team in 1999 and was also the swimming and diving team captain, as well as the Drum Line Captain for four years.

Prior to graduating from Naples High School, Stover became the youngest person to swim the length of Canandaigua Lake in 1998.