UF coach wins third coach of the year award

Posted Sep 3, 2010 by Aaron Oberlin

Updated Sep 3, 2010 at 07:30 PM

Gregg Troy won his third coach-of-the-year award — this year.

After winning the 2010 NCAA Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year Award and the 2010 SEC Men’s Swim Coach of the Year Award, the American Swimming Coaches Association selected him its coach of the year on Sept. 2.

“This award truly represents the talented student-athletes we had in our program last year,” said Troy, “as well as the tremendous coaching staff I had around me.”

The ASCA Coach of the Year Award is given annually to the coach who has contributed the most toward American swimming on a worldwide scale.

Troy helmed the United States men’s team to a first-place overall finish last month at the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships, and his UF women’s team took home the school’s first National Championship in 28 years.

Troy became the second UF swim coach to be awarded the honor. Randy Reese won it twice, in 1979 and 1984.