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Pete Lindsay Now in his 23rd year at the helm of the Miami University men's swimming and diving team, head coach Pete Lindsay has overseen more than two decades of success in the pool. A six-time Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, Lindsay has guided the RedHawks to three conference titles, including a first-place finish in 2006. Leading Miami to second-place conference finish in 2007, Lindsay mentored MAC Swimmer of the Year Paul Ricard and MAC Diver of the Year Chris Heaton. Ricard put together a stellar junior season in which he won three conference titles in the 200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle and became the first RedHawk in five seasons to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Heaton, meanwhile, swept the boards at the conference meet and was the named the conference's top swimmer for the second straight season. Lindsay's RedHawks won a total of eight individual conference championships, while nine Miamians garnered all-conference honors. The 2005-06 season was one of Lindsay's most successful in his tenure, as Miami upended six-time defending champion Eastern Michigan and captured its first MAC title since 1999. Winning 10 of the 20 events at the conference meet, the RedHawks took home eight individual conference titles, two relay crowns and placed a league-high 12 athletes on the all-conference squads. Since taking over the Miami program in the 1985-86 season, Lindsay has helped the RedHawks finish as either the runner-up or the conference champion on 15 occasions and win Mid-American Conference titles in 1997, 1999 and 2006. As the second-winningest coach in school history with 140 career dual-meet wins, Lindsay needs only seven more wins to surpass Raymond Ray as the all-time leader in coaching victories. In the past eight seasons, Lindsay has guided the RedHawks to six seasons of .500 or better, including a school-record tying 12 wins in 2002. From 1990-1999, Lindsay compiled eight seasons of .500 that included back-to-back seasons of double-digit wins in 1996 and 1997, the first time Miami had accomplished the feat since the 1974-75 seasons. Lindsay additionally was named coach of the year four times in the 1990's, taking home the award in 1991, 1994, 1996 and 1999. During his career in Oxford, Lindsay has mentored 100 individual and relay conference champions, nine MAC Swimmers of the Year, six MAC Divers of the Year and three of Miami's seven MAC Championship teams. Lindsay's career record stands at 137-111-1, good for a .552 winning percentage. Prior to Miami, Lindsay was the head coach of the women's team at the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor, he coached six all-Americans and led the Wolverines to a ninth-place finish at the 1984 NCAA Championships. Before his stint with the Wolverines, Lindsay served as the men's and women's coach at Western Michigan University from 1979-1983 where he produced 11 MAC Champions. Lindsay started his coaching career in 1967 as a coach with the San Diego Swimming Association. As an undergraduate at Miami in 1971-72, he was the varsity coach at Talawanda High School in Oxford before spending the 1973-74 season at the Long Beach Swimming Club. After serving as a volunteer assistant at the University of Washington from 1974 to 1975, Lindsay spent two seasons a as an assistant at the U.S. Naval Academy before working as Miami's graduate assistant from 1977-79. Lindsay is currently the only Miami head coach who teaches full-time at the university. He works as a sports studies instructor in the department of physical education, health and sports studies.
THE LINDSAY FILE YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD Year Record MAC Finish 1985-86 3-7-0 Fourth 1986-87 5-5-0 Third 1987-88 4-5-0 Second 1988-89 3-7-0 Second 1989-90 5-8-0 Third 1990-91 7-6-0 Second 1991-92 7-4-0 Second 1992-93 6-6-0 Third 1993-94 4-7-0 Second 1994-95 9-4-0 Second 1995-96 11-1-0 Second 1996-97 10-3-1 First 1997-98 5-7-0 Third 1998-99 8-3-0 First 1999-00 7-5-0 Second 2000-01 7-5-0 Second 2001-02 12-2-0 Second 2002-03 4-8-0 Fourth 2003-04 6-4-0 Second 2004-05 7-4-0 Second 2005-06 4-3-0 First 2006-07 3-7-0 Second |
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