Head Coach Adam Kennedy enters his third season at the helm of Pacific swimming. The women's team was picked to finish fifth, and the men's team to finish sixth in the Big West 2008-09 season. In his first year as head coach, Kennedy exceeded expectations with a third place for the women and fourth place finish for the men. He also coached senior Jenny Lewis to the NCAA Championships, where she took 51st place in the 50 Free and 61st in the 100 Back. Kennedy also coached Jun Huang (200 Back), Melissa McGhee (400 IM), Matt Lundy (1650 Free) and Jayme Swalin (500 Free) to Big West individual championships.
Academically, Matt Lundy was named the Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year and was the recipient of Pacific's Amos Alonzo Stagg Athlete Award for scholastic excellence. Jenny Lewis was a recipient of the 2009 Director of Athletics All-Tiger Award for scholastic achievement and outstanding performance in sport.
During the four years prior to joining Pacific, Kennedy served as the assistant swim coach for the Naval Academy. Under head coach Bill Roberts, Adam served as the primary sprint and breaststroke coach and saw the Midshipmen claim four-straight Patriot League titles. While at Navy, Kennedy had a hand in coaching 52 all-league performers, three Olympic Trials qualifiers, 13 relay conference champions and 23 individual conference champions.
While he was busy assisting with the coaching process, Adam also served as the recruiting coordinator for the Naval Academy, scouting and bringing in the 15th- and 17th-ranked recruiting classes in the nation over his final two years, according to CollegeSwimming.com. Under his watch, two Navy sprinters finished in the top nine at the USA Swimming National Championships.
As if coaching and recruiting for the Naval Academy weren't enough, Kennedy also served as the head coach of the USA Armed Forces Swimming Team, where he coached a team of active duty military swimmers who were qualifiers for the 2008 USA-S Olympic Trials. During the 2007 Military World Games, Adam helped guide the US to five top-eight finishes and one bronze medal. Since 2004, he also served as head coach of the Navy Swimming Club in Annapolis, Md., working to bring USA-S national recognition to the Midshipmen programs.
Before his time at the Naval Academy, Kennedy spent the 2003-04 season as a graduate assistant coach at Ohio University where he completed a Master of Science in coaching education. In his year as the Bobcat sprint coach, Ohio recorded four relay and four individual Mid-American Conference champions as well as the Female Swimmer of the Meet. Prior to his graduate assistantship, Kennedy spent the 2001-03 seasons as the distance coach at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., where he helped the men's 1650 Free and women's 400 IM swimmers to Patriot League championships, as well as 10 all-league performers and a total of five Patriot League champions. From May until September of 2003 he was the interim head swimming coach and aquatics director at Colgate.
Adam earned four letters during his swimming career at the collegiate level with Davidson College and in 1998 was part of the conference championship squad. He also completed his degree in history at Davidson.
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