Matt Kredich Position: Head Coach Experience: 5th Season Alma Mater: Duke 1988

Success has followed Tennessee head women's swimming coach Matt Kredich at every stop of his career, and his four-year tenure on Rocky Top has been no different.

After turning around the men's and women's swimming team at Brown and the women's squad at Richmond, Kredich has led the Lady Vols to unprecedented success.

Under Kredich's direction the Lady Vols have broken 18 of 19 Tennessee swimming records, had 17 different athletes garner 99 All-America awards and finished in the top-15 at the NCAA Championships a UT-record-tying four consecutive seasons.

In 2008-09, Kredich guided eight Lady Vols to 20 All-America certificates, as the Big Orange sent a school-record 12 participants to the national championship meet in College Station, Texas, where UT placed 13th. There, the 200y medley relay team of Michele King, Jamie Saffer, Tricia Weaner and Jenny Connolly became the first relay in school history to place in the top three at the NCAA meet.

Michele King and Jamie Saffer also became the second and third Lady Vols to capture Southeastern Conference individual titles under Kredich, as the Big Orange grabbed a second straight fourth-place finish at the conference championships.

And UT didn't just excel in the pool, the Lady Vols were dominant in the academic arena, as well, last season. UT was named a College Swimming Coaches Association Scholar All-America Team by having a team GPA above a 3.30, 17 members of the UT women's swimming program were named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll and former UT star Christine Magnuson captured the prestigious McWhorter SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award during the 2008-09 season.

Along with the All-America accolades and academic honors, UT athletes have earned 26 SEC medals and eight conference championships under Kredich.

Magnuson, a 2008 Olympian, has been the biggest success story during Kredich's four years at Tennessee.

Kredich had a direct effect on Magnuson's meteoric rise from an all-conference caliber swimmer to an American record-holder and professional athlete. Arriving in Knoxville in 2005, Kredich started coaching Magnuson during her sophomore season. He quickly turned her into one of the nation's top butterflyers and an All-America talent in the sprint free events. Magnuson's senior season in 2008, their third together, culminated with four SEC titles and the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year Award, an NCAA Championship in the 100y fly, a U.S. title in the 100m fly and a pair of silver medals and American records at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Magnuson's silver medals came in the 100m butterfly and the 400m medley relay. Under Kredich's guidance, Magnuson, who began taking butterfly seriously only a couple of seasons ago, jumped from having the world's 13th fastest time in the 100m fly in 2007 to being the second-best competitor in the world in the event in 2008.

A 23-time All-American, her performances have solidified the Kredich-guided Lady Vol swim team as an elite collegiate program and a legitimate player on the international stage.

Just this past summer, the Lady Vols continued to make their presence felt at national and world championship events.

Kredich served as an assistant coach on the U.S. team that competed at the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, and was joined on the U.S. squad by King, who won a gold medal as a member of the 400m free relay and a bronze in the 50m free. Another Lady Vol, Martina Moravcikova, also competed in Belgrade for her native Czech Republic.

Additionally this summer, Magnuson won her second straight U.S. title in the 100m fly, while sophomore Jenny Connolly was named to the U.S. national team after swimming the fourth fastest time in the country in the 100m back at the national meet. Current Lady Vols Alex Barsanti, Samara Gelb and Tricia Weaner competed at the ConocoPhillips USA National Championships as well.

Kredich's fourth season in Knoxville started out with a bang, as the Lady Vols began the season with an 8-0 record in dual meets before narrowly losing to undefeated and then-No.1-ranked Georgia at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.

UT was primed for an upset and just barely fell to the Bulldogs in a meet that came down to the last event. Tennessee finished the year 8-2 in duals, including wins over perennial Big Ten powers Indiana and Michigan and conference rivals Kentucky, Arkansas and Vanderbilt. Kredich also was able to send a UT-record 12 athletes to the NCAA Championships at the end of the season.

In 2008, the Lady Vols placed eighth at the NCAA Championships, as well as fourth in the SEC. UT also went 5-3 in dual meets with all three losses coming against teams ranked in the nation's top three at the time.

In addition to Magnuson's NCAA title, Kredich saw nine other Lady Vols earn All-America honors, as UT grabbed honors in 13 events.

The eighth-place finish at NCAAs, coupled with the 10th-place effort in 2007, gave Tennessee back-to-back outcomes in the top 10 at the national meet for the first time in school history.

The Lady Vols followed back-to-back fifth-place conference finishes with a breakthrough fourth-place showing at the 2008 SEC Championships. Magnuson won three individual events and was part of a victorious relay en route to earning the prestigious Commissioner's Trophy, awarded to the female who earned the most points for her team. Aleksa Akerfelds also was named SEC Freshman of the Year.

Kredich guided Tennessee to a 4-4 dual meet record during the 2006-07 season against some of the nation's top programs, a fifth-place finish at the SEC Championships and at 10th-place position at the NCAA Championships.

For the first time in 11 years, the Lady Vols cracked into the top 10 at the NCAA Championships by scoring in 11 of 15 events they entered. The team brought home 26 All-America certificates for their efforts and set six school records.

The Lady Vols placed fifth for the second straight year at the 2007 SEC Championships and Kredich crowned his first SEC champion when Magnuson snagged first in the 100y fly. She also broke her own school records in the 100y and 200y freestyle as well, and UT swimmers medaled in four events.

During the 2005-06 season, the first under Kredich's direction, the Lady Vols showed improvement and success by every measure. The team broke 11 of the 19 school records in swimming events. Tennessee sent eight swimmers to the NCAA Championships in 12 events and vaulted from 24th in 2005 to a 12th-place NCAA finish in 2006 while earning 27 All-America honors.

At the SEC Championships, UT swimmers broke five school records as the Big Orange scored in every event contested. The fifth-place finish was a marked improvement over the previous season's seventh-place showing.

The Lady Vols also had a successful dual meet season in Kredich's first season. Tennessee's 5-2 mark - its highest dual meet win total since the 1998-99 campaign - included victories over Louisville, Northwestern and SEC rivals Alabama, South Carolina and Kentucky. A third-place finish at the prestigious Purdue Invite helped to highlight the successful 2005-06 regular season.

The Tennessee women also excelled in the classroom in 2005-06, achieving a team GPA of 3.30 for the year, and two of three graduating seniors were awarded prestigious postgraduate scholarships by the Southeastern Conference.

Kredich was hired as the head coach at Tennessee after dramatically turning around the University of Richmond women's squad. During Kredich's tenure, the Spiders sent their first-ever swimmers to the NCAA Championships, had their first-ever All-Americans, and won their first-ever conference championships. In his four years at Richmond, the Spiders won four Atlantic 10 Championships while Kredich was named conference coach of the year all four years. His Spiders also were selected by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as an Academic All-America squad from 2002-04.

Prior to that, at Brown University, he turned a 2-9 women's swimming program in 1992 into Eastern Women's Swimming League Champions in 1996 and 1997. His teams then competed solely in the Ivy League and went on to win the 1998 and 1999 conference crowns. Additionally, he also energized the Brown men's team, which was coming off a 3-8 mark when he took over the team in 1996. He led the Bears to four consecutive winning seasons and four top-five finishes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. In the process, he was recognized as the EISL Coach of the Year in 1996 and 1997. He also earned EISL Men's Coach of the Year in 1998.

In his nine seasons with the Bears, he coached 50 all-conference performers, four Honorable Mention All-Americans, and several Olympic Trial qualifiers, Olympic Trial finalists and two Olympic athletes. In the classroom his athletes collectively achieved 12 Academic All-America team awards, one first-team Academic All-America award and several post-graduate scholarships.

Prior to coaching at Brown, Kredich was the assistant men's swimming coach at Harvard from 1991-92. He also has served as an assistant women's swimming coach at Stanford (1990-91) and as a graduate assistant coach for the men's and women's swim teams at Duke (1998-90).

As a standout backstroker at Duke, he garnered All-Atlantic Coast Conference and All-Academic honors and was a seven-time U.S. National qualifier. Kredich received a B.A. in biology from Duke in 1988 and received his M.A. in teaching degree from Duke in 1990.

A native of Durham, N.C., Kredich and his family reside in Knoxville. His wife Kimberley is a choral conductor, artist and advocate for children with disabilities. They have three sons: Benjamin, Miles and Coleman.