Stanford Swim Camp

Camp Coaches

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  Chris Lindauer

  Head Coach

  Chris Lindauer enters his first season as Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming, becoming the eighth head coach in program history.

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  Chris Lindauer

  Head Coach

  Lindauer has a proven track record of elevating programs to new heights, coaching 10 individual national champions, 46 women’s NCAA All-Americans and 49 men’s NCAA All-Americans during his 15-year coaching career.

  He has Olympic-level coaching pedigree, mentoring a pair of gold medalists and 13 Olympic qualifiers, in addition to serving on the USA National Team coaching staff from 2018-20.

  Lindauer moved to Stanford after a three-year stint leading the Notre Dame swimming and diving programs. During his time in South Bend, he led the men’s program to back-to-back historic NCAA finishes, including a program-best 10th place in 2024.

  His work with the men’s program included coaching 2024 ACC Swimmer of the Year Chris Giuliano and 2023 ACC Freshman of the Year Tommy Janton, a tandem that combined for five ACC titles and 14 All-America honors.

  On the women’s side, Lindauer coached First Team All-ACC honorees Madelyn Christman (200 back) and Maggie Graves (1650 free) in 2024.

  Lindauer’s success with the Fighting Irish earned him his first Olympic coaching role, serving as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2024 Olympic Games. In Paris, Lindauer worked directly with Guiliano as he turned in a World record-breaking performance en route to Olympic Gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay, along with a silver medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

  Prior to Notre Dame, Lindauer spent 13 seasons at Louisville, most recently serving as associate head coach. During his tenure, Lindauer coached numerous Olympians and 12 NCAA champions, with his student-athletes earning more than 100 All-America honors.

  His time in Louisville was highlighted by the Cardinals’ first ACC men’s title in 2021, as well as a historic 2019 season in which Louisville became the first ACC school to have both the men’s and women’s teams earn top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships in the same season, a program-best finish for both teams.

  With the Cardinals, Lindauer coached Kelsi Worrell (2012-16), a two-time NCAA champion and 2016 Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x100m medley relay. Lindauer was also key in the development of two-time NCAA champion Nick Albiero (2017-22), and Mallory Comerford (2015-19), a four-time national champion and the first woman in ACC history to earn Swimmer of the Year honors in three consecutive seasons.

  A native of Westminster, Colorado, Lindauer also swam collegiately at Louisville, where he was a four-time Big East champion and seven-time All-Big East selection. He graduated in 2008 with a degree in Biology.

  Lindauer arrives on The Farm with his wife, Beth, and their three sons, Jack, Owen, and Brady.

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  Dan Schemmel

  Director of Men’s Swimming

  Dan Schemmel was hired as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming on May 14, 2019. In 2022-23 Schemmel built upon the team's success during the previous season, finishing eighth overall at the NCAA Championships. 11 of his student-athletes earned All-America awards while the team also earned the best GPA among all Division I programs during the school year.

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  Dan Schemmel

  Director of Men’s Swimming

  Senior Leon MacAlister was lauded as the Pac-12 Men's Swimming and Diving Scholar Athlete of the Year and was also named among four swimmers to the CSC Academic All-America teams.
  
  Schemmel's third season as head coach of Stanford was his most successful, culminating with an undefeated regular season, a second place finish at the Pac-12 Championship meet, and a seventh place finish at the NCAA Championship meet.
  
  During the 2021-22 regular season, the Cardinal amassed five top-25 wins, including a signature dual meet victory over eventual NCAA champion California. Schemmel guided the Stanford swimmers and divers to six conference individual titles and the Cardinal's first individual NCAA champion since 2017, Andrei Minakov's victory in the 100 fly.
  
  The 2021-22 season also saw coach Schemmel's student-athletes break 10 Stanford records and bring home 14 All-America honors from the NCAA Championship meet.
  
  Schemmel's second year in charge of the program came during the 2020-21 season, in which the Cardinal finished 1-1 in dual meets and took second place in the Pac-12 conference. Stanford's season concluded at the NCAA Championships where the team placed 14th overall.
  
  In his first season as head coach, Stanford finished third at the Pac-12 Conference Championships before the cancelation of the NCAA Championships due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Thirteen swimmers and divers were named All-America with all relay teams earning the NCAA "A" standard. Twelve were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll while 13 were named Scholar All-America by CSCAA.
  
  Schemmel spent the previous three seasons as head coach of both the men’s and women’s programs at University of Hawai’i. The women’s program won the MPSF conference championship in each of those three seasons while the men’s team captured its first conference championship since 2006. Under his leadership, Hawai’i produced a combined 57 individual conference champions, 42 school records, 20 conference records and six All-Americans.
  
  Prior to serving as head coach at Hawai’i, Schemmel spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Wisconsin, where he coached 17 Big Ten Conference champions to nine Big Ten Conference records. He also spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant coach at Michigan State, his alma mater, and two seasons as a graduate assistant at Arizona (2008-10), where he earned his masters’ degree in educational psychology.
  
  Schemmel has helped add to an impressive resume for Stanford's men's swimming and diving program. In 105 seasons, the Cardinal has captured eight national championships and 64 Pac-12 Conference championships, including 31 consecutive from 1982-2012. Individual swimmers and divers have combined for 148 national championships and 376 conference championships, while seven former Cardinal were named to the Pac-12 All-Century team in 2016.
  
  Schemmel is the sixth head coach in the history of the program, succeeding Ted Knapp, who served a combined 39 years on The Farm as a student-athlete, assistant coach, associate head coach and as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming from 2012-19.