Jumbo swim team coach a Jumbo success

Heading into his 33rd year of leading the rock that has become the Jumbo swimming bunch, Coach Don Megerle knows a thing or two about success.

32 seasons alone should be enough to make Megerle a legend in the Jumbo athletic department. However, bringing the Jumbos 29 winning campaigns during his tenure, and amassing a 234-77 dual-meet record over that span, is something all to itself.

The winner of 2002-2003 NESCAC swimming coach of the year honors, Megerle's name can be found in all nooks and crannies of NCAA swimming, in any division.

He has organized the NCAA Division III Men's Nationals since 1975, the NCAA Division I Men's Nationals since 1980, and the NCAA Division III Women's Nationals since 1981. He is a six-time New England Coach of the Year (1979, 1989, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2003), recipient of the Paragon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1999, and was declared Tufts' first Master Coach that same year.

From the diving side of the team, coach Brad Snodgrass returns for Tufts for his 16th season. Snodgrass, who also coaches at MIT and Northeastern, has three New England Coach of the Year awards over his 22 years of coaching diving. In his active diving years, Snodgrass dove for numerous stalwarts of the sport, including U.S. National Team coach Jim Stillson during his undergraduate days at Columbia.

Although no formal statistics are kept, the eight combined New England Coach of the Year awards and numerous other accolades make the Megerle/Snodgrass combination one of the most successful in all of Division III athletics.

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