USC Swim Camp

Maurer's 2022 Trojans were highlighted by the efforts of sophomore Kaitlyn Dobler who became an NCAA champion in the 100y breast with a USC and Pac-12 record (56.93). Dobler, who repeated as the Pac-12 100y breast champion, claimed one of four conference crowns the Women of Troy won in 2022 (Isabelle Odgers 200y breast, Anicka Delgado 50y free, Caroline Pennington 1650y free). After finishing third at Pac-12's, the Trojans (5-2, 4-2) would wrap up the NCAA Championships at 16thoverall, as four of Maurer's swimmers picked up All-American honors.The men's squad (5-2, 3-2) was led by grad transfer Trent Pellini, who finished fifth in the 100y breast at the NCAAs, helping Troy to a 26thplace finish at the Championships. At Pac-12's, USC was fourth, with freshman Chris O'Grady leading a 2-3 Trojan finish in the 100y breast. 25 USC swimmers and divers earned CSCAA Scholar All-America honors with 22 swimmers being named to the Pac-12's Winter Academic Honor Roll.

Maurer, a 1992 Olympic gold and bronze medalist and a 1998 World Championships gold medalist, was the Stanford women’s head coach from 2006 through 2012, guiding the Cardinal to seven straight NCAA top 5 finishes as well as back-to-back Pac-10 titles in 2010-11. She has also served as a Stanford men’s water polo volunteer assistant coach since 2013.

Her Cardinal swim teams, which peaked with an NCAA runner-up finish in 2010, secured 13 NCAA individual and relay titles, 37 conference championships and 163 All-American honors while going 66-5 in dual meets.

Maurer has coached numerous swimmers who competed at the Olympics, World Championships, Pan Pacific Games and World University Games. Under her tutelage, Stanford swimmers Elaine Breeden and Julia Smit combined to earn three relay medals at the 2008 Olympics while the Cardinal’s Tara Kirk broke American records in the 100 and 200-yard breast in 2006. Breeden was also an American record holder (200 fly) while Smit set world and American records in the 200 and 400 I.M.

Maurer began her coaching career as an assistant coach at Northwestern in 1994-95 before embarking on a highly successful 10-year run as the head boys’ and girls’ coach at Lake Forest (Ill.) High. Her tenure there included a 2002-03 boys mythical national title and a 2003 girls mythical public school national title, a combined three state titles and eight Illinois Swimming Association Coach of the Year honors. Among her star swimmers was eventual Olympic gold medalist Matt Grevers.

Maurer swam on three Stanford national title teams (1992-93-94) and won NCAA titles in the 100y back each year while claiming the 200y back in 1993. She also raced on six Cardinal NCAA relay titles. She won 15 Pac-10 titles (seven individual, eight relays) and earned 21 All-American honors (19 at Stanford). Maurer, who competed one season for Florida as a freshman, was inducted into the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame in November of 2006.

She graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies (1993) and a master’s in education (1994).

Richardson is the newest addition to Maurer's staff, which also includes third year assistant coaches Meghan Hawthorne and Kevin Rapien as well as 24th-year head diving coach Hongping Li.

During Richardson's three years as Associate Head Coach, the Arizona distance group recorded historic performances at the Pac-12 and NCAA Championships. Richardson coached Brooks Fail to two Pac-12 titles in the 1650-yard freestyle, All-American honors and multiple school relays. As a distance group, the Wildcats picked up numerous NCAA "A" and "B" Cuts during Richardson's time in Tucson. During 2021, Richardson coached three Arizona athletes to six top 8 finishes at Wave II US Olympic Trials – just missing Olympic berths.

In his first year as Associate Head Coach, Richardson helped the men's team to a 2nd place finish at the 2020 PAC-12 Championships – tied for the highest finish in Arizona history. The Arizona distance swimmers qualified four individuals for the NCAA Championships and were seeded to score 32 individual points at the eventual canceled championships.

Before spending three seasons with the Wildcats, Richardson led the University of the Pacific, taking the program to unprecedented heights. Under Richardson, Pacific became a consistent contender in the MSPF Conference and sent athletes to the NCAA Championships in five straight seasons; in 2018 Pacific was one of just two men's and/or women's programs to achieve an "A" relay cut without a full allotment of scholarships.

In Richardson's seven-year tenure, an astonishing 73 school records were established. In 2017, the Pacific Tigers were collegeswimming.com's third-most improved team in the country.

Prior to spending seven seasons at his alma mater, Pacific, Richardson was the first ever head swimming coach at Fresno Pacific University, where he took the program from its inception in 2007 and turned into a perennial NAIA power in his five seasons at FPU. Richardson led the men's team to back-to-back NAIA National Championships in 2010 and 2011 and the women's team to a NAIA National Championship in 2012. At the 2012 US Olympic Trials, FPU swimmer Cheyenne Coffman placed 10th in the 100M backstroke.

Richardson swam collegiately at Pacific, where he helped lead the Tigers to back-to-back Big West Championships as a team captain during his junior and senior seasons.

Hawthorne, a 2012 Olympic Trials finalist and three-year U.S. national team member who graduated from USC in 2014, helped lead the 2020 Wildcat women to fourth at the Big Ten Championships (their best finish since 2022) while the men’s team took fifth (its highest finish since 2007). Hawthorne helped guide Calypso Sheridan to titles in the 400y IM and 200y breast as she became NU's first conference swimming champ since 2008. The programs combined for a 20-8 dual meet record while producing 20 All-Americans.

In 2019, Hawthorne helped Sheridan earn two All-American honors while the swimmer also broke the Big Ten record in the 400y IM. The women finished 6-3, the men 6-8.

At Boise State (2016-18), Hawthorne joined Kipp in leading the Broncos’ women’s team (they did not have a men’s team) to Mountain West Conference titles in 2017 and 2018 after finishing second in 2016. The teams also produced more than 100 MWC All-Academic honorees and posted consecutive perfect 1,000 scores in the NCAA Academic Progress Report.

A 2014 USC co-captain, Hawthorne was a two-time All-American in the 200y IM (2012-13), a six-time NCAA Championships point scorer, a four-time NCAA participant and a seven-time Pac-12 finalist. She was a part of two NCAA third-place finishes (2011-12) while Troy was seventh in 2013 and fifth in 2014.

As a 2014 senior, she was an NCAA consolation finalist in both medleys. In 2013, she took eighth in the 200y IM and won the consolation final of the 400y IM. She was a career-best seventh in the 2012 NCAA 200y IM and took 12^th in the 400y IM.

Hawthorne helped lead USC to one second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships (2013) and to three thirds (2011-12-14). She was a three-time Pac-12 finalist in the 200y and 400y IM (taking fourth twice in the latter) and once in the 200y breast.

A USA Swimming National Team member from 2012-14, Hawthorne reached the final of the 400 IM at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, taking sixth. She went on to earn a silver medal in the same event for the U.S. at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

Hawthorne was a coach with Rattler Swim Club in San Fernando, Calif., from 2009-2015 and swam for the club from 2001-14. She also served as the assistant coach for the swim team at Viewpoint School in Calabasas.

She graduated from USC in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in human biology and a minor in occupational science and earned her Masters in educational leadership from Boise State in 2018. Hawthorne's high school honored her in February of 2017 by inducting her into the Chaminade College Preparatory (West Hills, Calif.) Hall of Fame.

Rapien arrived at USC after a year serving as a volunteer assistant coach for the California men’s swimming team – the Bears won the 2020 Pac-12 title – which followed seven years as an assistant coach for Cleveland State’s men’s and women’s teams.

Rapien, who assumed the acting head coach role at the end of the 2019 season, contributed to a program that won 40 conference titles (individual or relay races) during his tenure and one team championship.

He helped lead Cleveland State to one of the program’s top seasons in 2018 when the women’s squad finished third at the Horizon League Championships while the men were runners-up.

Among the top swimmers Rapien coached was 2018 Horizon League Women’s Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Year Molly McNamara, who broke three school records at the league championships en route to a pair of butterfly titles. She also won the 200y fly in 2017.

In 2016, he helped Philipp Sikatzki finish fourth in the 100y fly at the NCAA Championships, the top result in program history. Sikatzki repeated as a 2017 NCAA qualifier in the event and was one of three CSU men who earned NCAA standards in eight events.

In 2013, Rapien helped Cleveland State to the Horizon League men’s title while the women were runners-up. Prior to arriving at Cleveland State, Rapien spent the two seasons as the head assistant swim coach at the University of North Dakota.

Rapien was a four-time letterwinner and team captain from 2005-2007 at Ashland University.

At Arizona, Fail was an 11-time All-American, most recently finishing fifth in the 500y free (4:10.05), sixth in the 400y IM (3:38.55) and seventh in the 1650y free (14:35.33) at the 2022 NCAA Championships. The endurance specialist also captured a Pac-12 title in the mile (14:41.22) as a 2022 senior.

A powerhouse for the Wildcats, Fail holds the Arizona school record in the 1650y free (14:31.38) and 400y IM (3:38.55).

The CSCAA Scholar All-American earned a Bachelor's degree in Education with a minor in recreation and sports at Arizona.