Neal Studd

Biography

2012 Olympic Coach Three-time World Championship Coach (2011 Shanghai, 2013 Barcelona, 2017 Windsor) Six All-American honors (at FSU) Six ACC gold medals 25 ACC podium performances Six-time CCSA Coach of the Year Seven-time CCSA Champions 2015 NCAA Coach of the Meet (HM) Seven All-American performances (at FGCU) Seven CCSA Swimmers of the Meet Three CCSA Swimmers of the Year 2013 Duane Swanson Jr. Inspirational Award Married to his wife Leah and has two children, Henry and Sophia. Neal Studd became the eighth head coach of Florida State swimming and diving on July 20, 2016. The six-time Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Coach of the Year brought a wealth of experience to Tallahassee after building Florida Gulf Coast University from scratch into one of the best mid-major programs in the country in his nine years at the helm. In 2019-20, Studd built the men’s relays into some of the fastest in the nation as four of the five earned automatic bids to the NCAA Championships. All five relays also stood on the podium at ACCs for the first time since 2009. Despite graduating three members off the free relays from 2018-19, the Seminoles defended their 200 free relay title behind freshman Peter Varjasi, senior Griffin Alaniz, sophomore Jakub Ksiazek and sophomore Max McCusker (1:16.69). Varjasi also took home six medals from ACCs, including silver in the 100 free (42.58) and bronze in the 50 free (19.35), while contributing on four relays. Sophomore Izaak Bastian also swam the se