USA Swimming Names Albiero to Pan Am Coaching Staff
November 18, 2014 | Swimming & Diving
University of Louisville head coach Arthur Albiero has been named to the coaching staff for the 2015 Pan American Games by USA Swimming.
The Pan Am Games will be held in Toronto this summer and UofL swimmer Kelsi Worrell has already been named to the roster.
Albiero has extensive international coaching experience that he gained on Portugal's Olympic coaching staff in the London Olympics. He also coached in Beijing Olympics for Romania as another of his highlights on the international scene.
His UofL men's team is currently ranked No. 5 in the nation and the women are 18th.
In 2013-14 Albiero led the Cardinal men and women to a championship in the inaugural American Athletic Conference and won another Coach of the Year honor. The women won six individual races and three relays. The men won 11 individual events and five relays.
As they moved on to the NCAAs, lightning struck again as Joao De Lucca not only repeated as the 200-freestyle national champion but also won the 100-freestyle, a feat not accomplished since 1990. The men finished 11th with two All-Americans and nine honorable mention All-Americans. The women saw Kelsi Worrell finish as runner up in the 100-fly and fourth in the 200-fly to help lead the women to a 15th place finish adding four honorable mention All-Americans.
Last summer Albiero proved that he not only puts UofL in the national spotlight but on the world stage as well. Thomas Dahlia won the French European Trials in the 200-meter breaststroke. Carlos Claverie medaled in the Youth Olympics in Bejing. Todd Owen was the Junior National Champion .
Andrea Cottrell was named to the World University Games in 2015 and Kelsi Worrell was named to the Pan Am Games roster.
In addition, the Cards are getting it done in the classroom as 2014 saw 11 Cardinals named as Scholar All-Americans.
