Jamie Greenwood - Women's Swimming & Diving Coach - University of Richmond Athletics

Jamie Greenwood

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Volunteer Assistant Coach

Jamie Greenwood joined the Spiders in 2019 with four years' experience working with Nova of Virginia Aquatics as a senior coach and before that served as the head coach at the Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming before the two merged. Greenwood was the 2016 Virginia Swimming Senior Coach of the Year. His team was a four-time Virginia State champion from 2014-18 with first-place finishes in the men's 2015 and 2016 NCSA Junior Nationals and first combined at the 2015 NCSA Junior Nationals.

The 2019 Spiders had four competitors qualify for NCAA events at the end of the regular season. Three divers in Alex Beran, Maddy Chao and Sydney Weiskopf qualified for NCAA Zone Diving in Annapolis. Hannah Gouger set a new school and A-10 Conference record in the 200-backstroke, finishing with a time of 1:53.56 at the UNC Last Chance meet and becoming one of just seven Spiders to qualify for the NCAA Championships meet in Austin, Texas. Gouger went on to qualify for the Olympic Trials at the TYR Pro Series after swimming a 1:02.39 time in the 100-backstroke. Richmond finished in fourth place at the Atlantic 10 Championships in Ohio. Gouger has now set the school record in the 200-backstroke in each of her first three seasons as a Spider. Gouger was named the A-10 Championships Most Outstanding Performer after winning the 100 and 200-backstroke events with NCAA qualifying times as well as meet and A-10 records, finished in third place in the 50-freestyle and appeared on four relay teams at the A-10 meet. The Swim and Dive team was one of just six Spider programs to earn the NCAA Public Recognition awards for APR Success after finishing the year in the top 10 percent of their sports in the most recent Academic Progress Rates (APR).

Greenwood earned his bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from the University of Virginia where he was a letterwinner on the ACC Champion Cavalier swim team and was an Academic All-ACC honoree. He went on to earn a master's degree from the University of Virginia in 2004 in Exercise Physiology where his thesis on recovery protocols and their effect on subsequent swimming was published in the Journal of Sports Sciences.