Alex Gauvin - Women's Swimming & Diving Coach - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Calendar

Sep 13

11 a.m.

Women's Swimming & Diving

vs Jean Campbell Alumni Meet

Oct 4

12 p.m.

Women's Swimming & Diving

vs Butler Duals

Oct 18

1 p.m.

Women's Swimming & Diving

vs Miami University (OH)

Nov 7

6 p.m.

Women's Swimming & Diving

vs Eastern Michigan University

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Alex Gauvin

Title:
Diving Coach
Email:
agauvin@bgsu.edu
Phone:
734-649-3571

Alex Gauvin will begin his third season as the diving coach for the BGSU swimming and diving program. Gauvin has coached at a variety of levels, most recently as a volunteer assistant at fellow Mid-American Conference school Eastern Michigan.

In his second year, Gauvin had a team compete in the MAC Championship for the first time since the Dive program has been established. He also had a diver qualify for the Zone Diving Championships, the first time since 2009.

Gauvin continues to develop divers and build the program that placed third in the Mid-American Conference Championship. In September of 2013, BGSU Director of Athletics Chris Kingston announced that the University would establish a diving program for the 2014-15 season.

Gauvin is in his fourth year of coaching at the club junior level and was with Eastern Michigan men’s and women’s swimming and diving program as a volunteer assistant for two years. He has 14 years of diving experience and nine years of coaching experience.

At Eastern Michigan, Gauvin coached four MAC champions as well as four MAC record holders and three All-Americans.

Gauvin worked at Saline High School in Saline, Mich. and has coached at numerous high schools throughout the state of Michigan. He has led four state qualifiers, three state finalists and a Michigan Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (MISCA) champion. A member of the USA Diving Grassroots committee, Gauvin was the keynote speaker at the 2012 MISCA clinic.

Gauvin attended The College of Wooster as an undergraduate and dove three seasons for the Fighting Scots. He intends to pursue a masters degree in sport psychology.

BGSU’s women’s swimming program began as a club sport in 1968 and was added as a varsity intercollegiate sport in 1974. Throughout history, Bowling Green has had strong divers as Lisa Fry and Mary Jane Harrison were co- recipients of the MAC’s Diver of the Year award in 1981. Mary Pfeiffer earned the same honor for four years from 1985-88. In addition, the Falcons twice earned the MAC Diving Coach of the Year award (Chuck O’Brien in 1991 and Michael Poindexter in 1992).