Jamestown (uj.edu) The University of Jamestown has announced the hiring of Alex Raasch as its first ever women’s swimming and diving head coach.
The program will begin competition in 2021-22 while Raasch will spend the 2020-21 season recruiting.
“We feel women’s swimming and diving is a perfect fit for our institution and our department,” said University of Jamestown Director of Athletics Sean Johnson. “There is a tremendous amount of talented swimming student-athletes in our region and we feel those individuals fit the profile of students that thrive at the University of Jamestown. There are abundant opportunities for our team to compete in the region and we feel we are positioned to be successful. We are also very grateful for our partnership with Jamestown Public Schools and Jamestown High School in allowing us to use their pool as our practice and competition facility.”
Most recently, Raasch, a native of Massachusetts, was the interim head swimming and diving coach at the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas.
Raasch began her coaching career with the YMCA of Greater Boston where she served as the Head Swimming Coach at the Hyde Park branch in Boston, Massachusetts. While in this position she began an adaptive swimming program and worked with swimmers of all ages, levels and abilities.
