ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico women’s swimming and diving program’s coaching staff has a new addition as Matt Benedict is the new assistant swimming coach.
Benedict comes to Albuquerque with 12 years head coaching experience as a club coach. Those 12 years were spent at Sunkist Swim Team, Reno Aquatic Club and, most recently, in Goodyear, Arizona, at the YMCA Westside Silver Fins. At every coaching stop, he has had athletes qualify for U.S. Nationals and Olympic Trials.
“DORSEY QUOTE.”
Along with quality national-level athletes, while at YMCA Westside Silver Fins, Benedict coached Darian Townsend to a silver medal performance at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.
“I am so fortunate to have been given this opportunity by Coach Dorsey,” Benedict said. “My goal is to every day help our women improve and support the vison of our head coach moving forward. With nine school records broken in Coach Dorsey’s first year, her results say it all. I believe it’s my job to help continue those kinds of results by bringing my 12 years of head coaching experience to her staff and recruit the highest caliber student-athlete to New Mexico’s flagship university.”
Prior to his time as a club head coach, Benedict spent time an assistant coach for Rutgers University and Dartmouth college. While at Rutgers, both the men’s and women’s teams where represented with point scorers at the NCAA Championships. The year prior at Dartmouth College, the men’s team saw their first winning season in more than a decade with Benedict as their assistant coach.
Benedict arrived to Dartmouth from the Longhorn swim camp where he worked in 2003 and as an assistant coach at the Rams Swim Club – a place he worked during his time swimming for the University of Rhode Island. While a Rhody Ram, Benedict set the school record in the 100 fly, was team captain his senior year and was a part of the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC).
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