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Rutgers Women’s Swimming & Diving adds two-time All-American to coaching staff

Two-time All-American Kevin Steel will be the new assistant coach for Rutgers swimming and diving.

As Rutgers women’s swimming and diving looks to build on their success, they added to their coaching staff on Wednesday. The Scarlet Knights announced that former two-time All-American Kevin Steel will be the new assistant coach. Steel brings an impressive resume to Piscataway, and his addition is already creating excitement.

“I feel blessed to have someone of Kevin’s coaching pedigree believe in what we are doing here at Rutgers,” head coach Jon Macoll told Rutgers athletics. “He’s a Jersey guy coming home from coaching at the University of Virginia and a former swimmer at the University of Arizona. I believe Kevin will have an immediate and positive impact on our women here at Rutgers.”

Steel will start his career as a Scarlet Knight after spending last season as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Virginia. During his only year in Charlottesville, the Cavaliers won their third-consecutive NCAA title. Before that, Steel was a volunteer assistant swim coach and assistant strength and conditioning coach at Kenyon College.

While Steel has had an impressive coaching career, he rewrote the record books as a college athlete. The New Jersey native was on the 2013 USA World Championship team and twice broke the U.S. Open 50 breaststroke record. He also earned second place in the 100 breaststroke at the 2013 NCAA championships.

The University of Arizona graduate will bring his experience to a program that recorded its highest Big Ten Championship point total in 2023. The Scarlet Knights also reached the Big Ten podium six times.

Although the future was already bright for Rutgers Women’s Swimming & Diving, success has followed Steel everywhere he’s been, with Piscataway the next stop.

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