Men's Swim & Dive
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- wright.2893@osu.edu
Wright enters his second season with the Buckeyes in 2024-25, bringing over 20 years of coaching experience to Columbus.Â
Prior to Ohio State, he served as the head coach for NOVA of Virginia Aquatics Inc. from 2019-23. With NOVA, he helped produce one Olympic Team member, one World Championship Team member and two Junior World Open Water Team members and placed swimmers on the National and Junior National Teams annually. Under Wright, NOVA was named a USA Swimming Gold Medal Podium Club for the first time, and, during his tenure, the club annually swept the LSC Virginia Swimming Senior and Age Group meets and won both the NCSA Junior Nationals and NCSA Age Group Championships.
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Prior to NOVA, Wright was the CEO and head coach of the Northern Kentucky Clippers from 2015-19 and the Director of Competitive Swimming and Aquatics for the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club from 2010-15. He had his first Division I coaching job when he served as an assistant at Georgetown from 2009-10.
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Wright has served as the head coach of Team USA for the 2022 FINA Junior World Open Water Championship, the 2019 UANA Junior American Open Water Championship and the 2019 USA National Open Water Select Camps. He was also a coach for the 2018 USA National Team OW Altitude Camp and has served as a coach for the USA National Team and the USA Junior National Team.
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Wright attended Asbury University, where he qualified for NAIA Nationals and set school records all four years of his career. He graduated in 2003 with a degree in psychology.
