Six Selected for Freeman Scholarship

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has selected six assistant coaches to receive the Jean Freeman Scholarship.  The scholarships are given annually to six assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university, and whose leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude and personal graciousness epitomize those characteristics reflected by Jean Freeman, longtime women's swimming coach at the University of Minnesota. 

Nathan Brown, of Villanova University, Sarah Holman, from Davidson College, Katie McArdle, from Dickinson College, Maiya Otsuka, from the University of Massachusetts, Henderson State University’s Wally Senter, and Victor Tarin from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

The scholarship will provide each of the six selected assistant coaches with the free registration and lodging at the 60th annual CSCAA Convention and Awards Banquet and CSCAA Coach Academy.  Airfare is generously provided by All Sports International

Recipients were selected by a committee comprised of members of The Summit, The Summit for Empowering Women in Swimming, of which Jean was a founding member. Since its establishment in 2012, the Freeman Scholarship has enabled many of the nation's top rising assistants to rub elbows with the country's top coaches.  Of the forty-eight selections, nearly a third have become Head or Associate Head Coaches including three of the inaugural selections. 

Nathan Brown, Villanova

Burke wrapped up his first year as an assistant at Villanova following one year at Hope College in Holland Michigan.

Sarah Holman, Davidson

Holman is the IM/Stroke coach at Davidson College. She arrived at Davidson with over twenty years of coaching experience at SwimMAC Carolina and Centre College

Katie McArdle, Dickinson

McArdle took an unconventional road to her coaching career. After earning a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship she earned her Master’s Degree at Harvard. There, the coaching bug bit her and now she finds her self wrapping up her first season as a full-time coach.

Maiya Otsuka, Massachusetts

For the past five years, Otsuka has been an instrumental part of UMAss’ success including 19 school and three pool records and thirteen top-three finishes records in the Atlantic 10 Conference

Wally Senter, Henderson State

Senter is finishing up his third season as an assistant to longtime Henderson State coach Coak Matthews.

Victor Tarin, Rose-Hulman

Tarin is wrapping up a graduate assistantship following a successful career at Nova Southeastern University