Dan Rhinehart

Position: Head Coach Experience: 14th Year Email: djrswim@aol.com

Head Coach Dan Rhinehart is in his 14th year at the helm of the GW men's and women's swimming program.

During the past 13 seasons, the Colonials have rewritten the university's record book by establishing 54 school records and 14 Atlantic 10 records. Since joining GW in 1995, Rhinehart has erased every single school record bar except two (men's 1000-yard freestyle and women's 200-yard breaststroke.)Rhinehart has coached a total of 71 Atlantic 10 Championships, eight Conference Swimmers of the Year, and has produced four athletes with NCAA Division I Championship consideration times; the most recent being David Zenk in 2009. Three of these athletes continued on to compete in the NCAA Championships.

In addition to these historic performances, GW swimmers have also found success in the classroom. Last season, the CSCAA named the Colonials to the CSCAA Team Scholar All-America for a combined GPA of 3.22. The 2010-11 squad saw the fifth consecutive season that a GW swimmer had been named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic squad.

Prior to his position as head coach, Rhinehart served as the assistant coach for the Colonials for three seasons. Rhinehart has been involved with swimming and coaching since 1976, working with a wide variety of athletes including Olympic and world-ranked swimmers. He came to the Washington area from San Diego where he was the head swim coach at Mt. Carmel High School for five years. Under his direction, several of his swimmers qualified for high school All-America status and his boys team was ranked nationally in 1993. While in San Diego, Rhinehart also served as the founder, head coach and President of the PQ Aquatics Corporation, a United States Swim program, from 1991-95.

Prior to his stint in San Diego, Rhinehart was an assistant swim coach at Brown University in Providence, RI, from 1984-90. In addition to his duties at Brown, he coached the Little Rhody Aquatic Club, where he developed nationally and internationally ranked swimmers. Rhinehart resides in Rockville, MD, with his wife, Jenny.