USA Swimming held their Board of Administrators Election this afternoon, and the Home of Delegates members elected Tom Dolan, Tom Ugast, and Gunnar Bentz to the Board.
Dolan and Ugast will take over At-Massive positions vacated by Katy Aris-Wilson and Kenneth Chung and Bentz will take Maya (DiRado) Andrews’s 10-Yr Athlete consultant spot.
USA Swimming CEO Kevin Ring stated, “The election of those new Board members displays our ongoing dedication to attracting leaders who’re deeply invested in our mission and future success. Their collective expertise and fervour will assist information USA Swimming as we pursue bold objectives and proceed creating constructive affect for our members and communities.”
Tom Dolan is an Olympic gold medalist, profitable the 400 IM on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He has beforehand served as an athlete member on the BOD. He graduated from the College of Michigan in 1998 after profitable 9 NCAA titles and serving to the Wolverines win the 1995 workforce title.
After he retired, he launched the Tom Dolan Swim College and have become the President of Company Swimming pools for Large Blue Swim College, a nationwide study to swim company.
Tom Ugast is the CEO and President of NCAP, and he emphasised in his bio his plans for the aggressive facet of swimming stating:
I’ve all the time felt we have now these 2 objectives we should give attention to.
- Win Medals for Group USA
- Develop younger swimmers on the native degree to attain their objectives
Not each swimmer that may be a member of USA Swimming will make a Nationwide or Junior workforce, however we should give our Golf equipment the assets they should obtain the very best degree each swimmer could make.
He additionally has earlier USA Swimming Board expertise, and has helped with fiscal oversight and LSC management for the group.
Each At-Massive members will serve 4-year phrases, which shall be up in 2030.
Gunnar Bentz, who will take over the 10-year Athlete Consultant position from Maya (DiRado) Andrews, is a two-time Olympian and an Olympic gold medalist as a member of the boys’s 4×200 freestyle relay on the 2016 Olympic Video games. On the 2020 Olympics, he completed seventh within the 200 fly.
Bentz swam on the College of Georgia, the place he completed third within the 200 fly in 2017 and third within the 400 IM in 2015.
He now works in venture administration and operations for PowertronGlobal, which works in works within the burgeoning business of information facilities.
