| Gregg Troy | |
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| Florida Gators swimming coach Gregg Troy in March 2008. |
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| Sport(s) | Swimming & Diving |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | University of Florida |
| Conference | Southeastern Conference (SEC) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 19, 1950 |
| Place of birth | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1977–1997 1992 1996 1998–present 1999 2008 |
Bolles School Pan-Am Games U.S. Olympic Team (Asst.) University of Florida Pan-Am Games U.S. Olympic Team (Asst.) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| SEC Women's Championship (2009) NCAA Women's Championship (2010) |
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| Awards | |
| NCAA Men's Coach of the Year (2002, 2004) NCAA Women's Coach of the Year (2010) SEC Men's Coach of the Year (2000) American Swim Coaches Ass'n Coach of the Year (2010) National Collegiate & Scholastic Swimming Trophy (2010) |
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Gregg Troy (born December 19, 1950) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators swimming and diving teams of the University of Florida; the Florida Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Troy previously served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic men's swim team in 1996 and 2008, and he has been appointed as the head coach of the U.S. Olympic men's swim team for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Troy was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, near State College, in 1950. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in government from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas in 1972, and later earned a master of arts degree in history education from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida in 1987.
Troy has been the head coach of the Florida Gators men's swimming and diving teams at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida since 1999, and the head coach of the Gators women's team since 1998. He previously served as the men's assistant head coach for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, as well as an assistant women's coach at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In eleven seasons with Gators women's squad and ten years with the Gators men's team, Troy has guided Gators swimmers to more than sixty SEC individual titles, more than 200 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections and more than 550 All-America honors.[1] In 2009, the Gators women's team won the SEC team championship; in 2010, they won the NCAA team championship.
Troy has coached many notable Olympic champions and world record holders, most notable in recent years is Ryan Lochte. Under Troy's watchful eye, Lochte has developed into a swimming force on the international level, winning three gold medals in two Olympic Games, and holding multiple current world records and multiple current world championship titles.[2]
In December 2010, the U.S. Olympic Committee appointed Troy to served as the head coach of the U.S. men's swimming team for the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London, England.[3][4]
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