I agree that I doubt Marsh wants the head coaching job. We also still don't know what the plan is. Currently, Durden is the acting director of swimming and diving, effectively running both programs. Even if the women's team slightly underperformed what they were reasonably hoping for (9th/10th place at NCAAs), it was fairly successful ye…
I agree that I doubt Marsh wants the head coaching job. We also still don't know what the plan is. Currently, Durden is the acting director of swimming and diving, effectively running both programs. Even if the women's team slightly underperformed what they were reasonably hoping for (9th/10th place at NCAAs), it was fairly successful year 1. I haven't seen any indication whether Cal will continue to operate as one combined program, or if they will return to a split program. There are enough programs at the top level that do both really well so I don't inherently think that Cal has to go one way or the other. Some athletes do prefer split programs (it was a decent factor in Maggie MacNeil's original commitment to Cal), but it's not a commonly stated preference that should be used as a major factor in deciding whether to keep combined or split it up. For what it's worth, I'm very interested in Texas' Carol Capitani if Cal should choose to split the programs back up. I believe she swam at Cal in the late 80s/early 90s, but I think she is unlikely to leave her current position (been there for ~10 years).
Because of what has happened recently, i wouldnt measure this year’s women’s team by swimming performance alone. I’d measure it by whether a greater percentage of female athletes are back to finding joy in the water. That’s been missing for awhile.
I agree that I doubt Marsh wants the head coaching job. We also still don't know what the plan is. Currently, Durden is the acting director of swimming and diving, effectively running both programs. Even if the women's team slightly underperformed what they were reasonably hoping for (9th/10th place at NCAAs), it was fairly successful year 1. I haven't seen any indication whether Cal will continue to operate as one combined program, or if they will return to a split program. There are enough programs at the top level that do both really well so I don't inherently think that Cal has to go one way or the other. Some athletes do prefer split programs (it was a decent factor in Maggie MacNeil's original commitment to Cal), but it's not a commonly stated preference that should be used as a major factor in deciding whether to keep combined or split it up. For what it's worth, I'm very interested in Texas' Carol Capitani if Cal should choose to split the programs back up. I believe she swam at Cal in the late 80s/early 90s, but I think she is unlikely to leave her current position (been there for ~10 years).
Because of what has happened recently, i wouldnt measure this year’s women’s team by swimming performance alone. I’d measure it by whether a greater percentage of female athletes are back to finding joy in the water. That’s been missing for awhile.