Coach Jon Urbancheck bio | Read.SwimISCA.org

Coach Urbanchek was born August 23, 1936. For most of you, that was long before you came into this world, and he's still going stronger than most of us walking pool decks today. That in itself is a Hall of Fame honor!

Coach Urbanchek attended the University of Michigan, where he was both an All American and member of the 1959 and 1961 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship Team. After college, he had an illustrious career at Anaheim High School (1963-1978) where he coached both swimming and water polo. Not only enough coaching two teams and teaching full time, he also co-founded the Fullerton Aquatic Sports Team (FAST Swimming, Fullerton, California).

In December of 2019, the newly-rebuilt pool at Anaheim High School was officially renamed the John Urbanchek Aquatic Complex.

After leaving Anaheim High School in 1978, he became the Head Coach for Long Beach State, where he coached the 49er's Swim Program for five years. Coach Urbanchek then started in 1982 the Renaissance of the Michigan Men's swimming program. Within four years, he won the Big 10 swim championship and then continued to win another 9 in a row, establishing a Decade of Dominance. Did I mention to say, during that time he also won the NCAA Championship and won a total of thirteen Big 10 Championships during his time. He also was on the staff of seven Olympic Swimming Teams: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012.Two of them were after he retired.

Upon retiring from Michigan in 2004, he assisted the school club team (Club Wolverine). He was inducted into both the International Swimming Hall of Fame 2008 and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

So much for retirement. In 2018 he became USA Swimming National Team Technical Advisor, which he held until 2020 and won the USA Swimming Award.

To the Man who will NEVER RETIRE, we take great privilege of honoring you!

DON’T MISS OUT!

Our 11th Annual ISCA Swim Coaches Summit is something you don’t want to miss. Join us for an opportunity to hear from some of the best coaches, and join us for our Hall of Fame Induction Dinner where we will honor some very renowned Coaches! We will be having our clinic leading into our ISCA International Senior Cup! The clinic will be held, starting late afternoon Saturday, March 26, 2022, and concluding Monday evening, March 28th, with our Hall of Fame Inductee Dinner. Please see below for more information on the Summit.

Don’t delay registering your swimmers for the ISCA International Senior Cup, which is held March 29 thru April 2nd, in the beautiful St. Petersburg, Florida. Spots are filling up, and we don’t want you to miss the opportunity for some fast swimming!

Jon Urbancheck

Bob Steele

Steve Bultman

Maureen Sheehan

Jack Simon

Ernie Maglischo

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ISCA Hall of Fame (history of the coaches)

We Need Your Team & Coaches

11th Annual ISCA Coaches Summit: We are ecstatic to be honoring six great Hall of Fame Coaches! In addition, we will recognize and select the Club Coach of the Year. This is a brand new award, called the ISCA Mark Schubert Club Coach of the Year! In years to come, this will be one of the biggest honors bestowed to a Club Coach.

We hope you join us for this exciting event, honoring these magnificent Inductees! The best part, we are going to make this affordable. First, any coach who has a team entered in either the West Coast or East Coast Elite Showcase and the ISCA International Senior Cup can participate for $100, which will include the Hall of Fame Inductee Dinner. For any other coach or team that would like to come, it will be $150 for the first Coach (including the Hall of Fame Inductee Dinner). And, get this, bring your whole staff (up to 10) $400!

Science/Swim Training Concepts for Proposal

The first day of the Clinic, Saturday, March 26, 2022, includes presentations by Coaches and Sports Scientists.

The ISCA conference is calling for presentation proposals by coaches and scientists that explain the application of scientific concepts to swim training and performance. The most important criterion for acceptance is that the presentation includes science-based information that a coach can immediately apply to his or her swimmers to improve performance.

Presentation options include:

Discussion of the application of a scientific concept during training with performance outcomes.
Summary of research findings with strategies to implement during training.

While coaches and scientists are welcome to submit either option, it is expected that coaches are most likely to submit Option 1 and scientists are most likely to submit Option 2.

Sample topics for either format may be:

Training Intensity vs. Training Distance
Deliberate Practice Strategies, and
Index of Coordination

To make this event a success, and for you and your coaches to learn from some of the greatest names in swimming history, we need you to participate. We would like you to bring your coaches and staff. Please take this opportunity to make swimming better by bringing your coaches and learning from the best minds swimming has been able to produce.

Call for presentations: