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Kristy Patterson enters into her fifth season as head coach of the women’s swimming and diving team after a successful first three years at the helm of the program.

The 2014-15 season marked success in and out of the pool, when the team of 23 posted 85 individual lifetime bests and was honored as a CSCAA Scholar All-America team for the third consecutive year under Patterson.

In her third campaign as head coach, Patterson led Ball State to a 5-4 record, including 0-4 dual meet record in the Mid-American Conference, improving to an overall record of 16-12 and 14 new Ball State school records in the course of her time with the Cardinals program.

Patterson came to Ball State after serving as an assistant swim coach at the University of Akron from 2003-2012. In addition to her coaching experience at Akron, Patterson served as an assistant lecturer at Akron from 2008-12. She also served as a coach and camp counselor at the Stanford Swim Camp in the summers of 2006-2009.

A 2003 graduate of Akron, Patterson began her coaching career as the head swim coach at Rosemont Country Club in Fairlawn, Ohio, in the summers of 2003-04. She then went on to earn her master’s degree from Akron in 2006.

As a student-athlete for the Zips, the Canton, Ohio, native served as team captain for Akron in 2001 and 2002 and was as four-year letter winner. She set school records in the 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke, 100 freestyle and as a member of four relay teams in her career. She still owns some of the school’s top times in several events.

Before her 1998 graduation from Glen Oak High School, Patterson swam under now-retired head coach Jeff Burrows, specializing as a breaststroker and sprint freestyler. A multisport athlete, Patterson was just one of few girls at the school to earn 12 letters in four years, including swimming, soccer and track.

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