Chris Lindauer

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Westminster, CO
High School:
Stanley Lake

Chris Lindauer, a three-time University of Louisville All-American, is in his fourth year with the Cardinals as an assistant coach for the U of L swim team.

"As we went through the process of finding the right person to add to our coaching staff, it was very clear to me we needed a person who would cherish and value team pride more than ever. Someone who would be `hungry' to make a difference. Our search led us to Chris," said Albiero, the National Coach of the Year. "Chris is Cardinal Pride personified. He learned much during his time as a student-athlete at U of L and his passion for high level performance had a significant impact on the team's success. During the interview process, he stated `there is college swimming...and then there is Louisville Swimming'."

Lindauer was an integral part of the U of L coaching staff that helped coach the men to their first top ten finish at NCAAs in school history and the first top 25 NCAA finish for the women. Along with Rachel Komisarz assistant coach of the year by College Swimming Awards. He also helped coach U of L's first national champion and first women's A-finalist as well as Olympic swimmers in both 2008 and 2012. . In 2012-13, Lindauer helped coach the Cardinal women to their third straight BIG EAST Championship. Coming off that meet, the women sent five women as individuals and with all five relays qualifying boosted the NCAA Roster to a total of nine with the relay swimmers. Two individual swimmers made the A-finals and achieved All-American status. The men sent three individuals and also added four more as relay swimmers. Joao De Lucca became the second Cardinal in history to win an NCAA Championship, when he took the 200-free from lane one in a 1:33.49, the third fastest time in the history of the NCAA meet. Joao De Lucca was third in the 100-free and 13th in the 50-free. Caryle Blondell was an honorable mention All-American, finishing 14th in the 100-free. The 400-free relay team that finished fourth made three additional swimmers All-Americans.

Lindauer, who graduated in 2008 with a degree in biology, comes from Life Time Fitness, where he has been the head swim coach in charge of coaching swimmers of varying ages between 5 and 18. He led instruction on all stroke techniques along with managing swim meets and administrative work.

Prior to that, he was the assistant head coach and head conditioning coach for Cardinal Aquatics, where he coached and mentored age group swimmers.

As a Cardinal, not only did Lindauer earn All-American honors, but was a member of the first Cardinal relay team to score at NCAAs, he was a four-time BIG EAST Champion and seven-time All-BIG EAST Conference selection. He won the 2008 Coaches Award and the 2008 Most Memorable Performance Award. The sprint freestyler's prep career included the Colorado State Championship and High School All-America Honors as well for Standley Lake High School in Westminster, Colo.

An outstanding student as an undergraduate, Chris was a member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll and was the recipient of National Fragile X Foundation Summer Research Fellowship Award. The goal of this fellowship was to conduct a meaningful research project targeted at defining metabolic differences in the brain of FMRP knockout mice through the powerful technique of Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy.

He and his wife, Beth have two sons, Jack and Owen.