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Kyle Schack Named Head Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Coach

ALMA, Mich. - Kyle Schack enters his first season as head men and women’s swimming and diving coach at Alma College. 

Schack returns to Division III after three successful years at the DI level.  Most recently, Schack served as a volunteer assistant coach on the Harvard men's swimming staff. He helped coach the Crimson to an undefeated season, EISL championship and 22nd-place finish at the NCAA Championships in his first year on the job. The second year, which included 13 conference champions and three school records, concluded with a 20th place finish at the NCAA Championships.  Over his two years at Harvard, Schack helped the Crimson produce four All-Americans. 

Schack was also the head senior assistant and head junior coach of the Bay and Ocean State Squids. He coached four junior national qualifiers, two USA Scholastic All-American and five individual New England long course champions in the 2005 season. The 2006 campaign was even more successful with five US National qualifiers, one US Olympic Team Trial qualifier, and four Junior National Qualifiers.  The Squids took the 2006 New England Swimming Championship, taking the top four spots in the Women’s High Point Awards. 

A native of Huntington Woods, Mich., Schack arrived at Harvard from West Virginia, where he earned a master's degree and coached the distance swimmers in 2004. He coached four All-Big East swimmers with the Mountaineeers. Schack captained the swimming and water polo teams at Union College, where he was a four-time individual conference champion. He graduated in 2002 with bachelor's degrees in economics and French. After graduation, Schack coached four Division-III All-Americans as a volunteer assistant at Union and was the Junior Coach of the Schenectady Swim Club.
 

Posted: Wed, September 13th, 2006 at 11:40AM

 

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Coach Profile

Terry Smith

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.

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