04/20/2012 Swimming & Diving Teams Hold Annual BanquetBoth teams handed out season awards and honored departing seniors. 02/21/2012 Swimming And Diving Head To Buffalo, N.Y. For Atlantic 10 ChampionshipThe four-day meet is scheduled to begin Wednesday at 6:30 pm. 12/02/2011 WSWIM Hosts Northeastern, MSWIM Travel To Yale, SaturdayThe women will begin at 12p.m. from Joseph Rogers Pool, men start at 1p.m. 10/15/2011 S&D: Men Tie, 149-149, and Women Fall 177-122 against BUIn the season opener Saturday the men and women both put together great team performances 10/10/2011 Women Tabbed To Finish Third In A-10 Preseason PollThe Minutewomen are picked to finish behind Richmond and Fordham in the preseason coaches poll As Bob Newcomb enters his 28th season as head coach of the University of Massachusetts women's swimming and diving team in 2011-12, he brings with him over a quarter century of success. During his 27 seasons, he has compiled a 160-114-1 overall record and in 2001, led the Minutewomen to their first-ever Atlantic 10 Conference championship. Newcomb's other highlights during his career include producing 40 Atlantic 10 champions, 37 New England champions, eight New England Championship record holders, four NCAA Championship qualifiers, and one UMass Hall of Fame inductee. During his tenure at UMass, he has coached successful athletes such as Michelle Leary (1990 New England High Point Swimmer, 2007 UMass Hall of Fame), Allison White (1993-94 Atlantic 10 Diver of the Year) and Becky Hunnewell (2000-01 Most Outstanding Performer at the Atlantic 10 Championships). His coaching efforts have been recognized twice, as he received the New England Women's Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Coach of the Year honors in 1988 and 1989. Newcomb also served two terms as the NEWSIDA Vice President. In addition to his women's swimming and diving responsibilities, Newcomb also served as head coach of the women's water polo team at UMass for three years. In his three years as head women's water polo coach, he compiled a 54-25 (.684) record. Before coming to UMass, Newcomb served as an assistant swim coach at the Alamo Area Aquatic Association in San Antonio, Texas. He has also been the head swimming and water polo coach at San Antonio's John Jay High School, the assistant swimming, diving and water polo coach at Washington and Lee (Va.) University and an assistant swimming coach at Springfield College. A 1980 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., with a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences, Newcomb was a four-year member of both the swimming and water polo teams. While an undergraduate, he was a 1978 Division III All-America selection in swimming (freestyle) and earned a spot on the All-Southern Conference water polo team in 1980. Newcomb and his wife, Judi, reside in Amherst. They have two daughters, Madeline (23) and Olivia (19).
Bob Newcomb Career Highlights
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