Denison head coach Gregg Parini has named Kim Lloyd assistant men’s and women’s swimming coach for the upcoming 2014-15 season. Lloyd comes to Denison after five seasons as an assistant at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H.
While at Colby-Sawyer, Lloyd designed and conducted workouts for the Charger swimming and diving teams while programing the team’s strength and conditioning program. Lloyd was also heavily involved in recruiting and fundraising at Colby-Sawyer.
For the last two years, Lloyd has also served as the head masters swim coach at Colby-Sawyer.
Prior to her time at Colby-Sawyer, Lloyd re-entered the coaching ranks by serving as the head swimming coach at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, N.H. In her second year at Lebanon, the women’s team won the state championship and in her third year, the team received the NISCA Scholar Team bronze award for maintaining grade point average above 3.20. Prior to her coaching stint at Lebanon HS, she spent nine years as the owner and chief instructor at the Chicago ATA Black Belt Academy.
Lloyd is a licensed Doctor of Naprapathy, a degree she received the Chicago National College of Naprapathy in 2000. She received her bachelor of arts in linguistics from Northwestern University in 1994. As a swimmer for the Wildcats she was a Big Ten Champion in 1991 as a member of the 200 medley relay. A six-time All-American, she received the honor on relays all four years. Lloyd was a three-time Academic All-BIG Ten selection and a College Swimming Coaches Association of America first-team Scholar All-American in 1994.
That would not be the last time Lloyd would be recognized by the CSCAA. Earlier this year she was awarded the CSCAA Jean Freeman Scholarship Award. This award is presented annually to one male and one female assistant coach in each division of the NCAA. It is presented to an assistant coach whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university, and whose leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude and personal graciousness epitomizes those characteristics reflected by Jean Freeman.
In 2013, Lloyd was published twice by United States Masters Swimming. She is certified by the Red Cross as a lifeguard training instruction, a water safety instructor, and in lifeguarding/First-Aid, and CPR. She remains an instructor certified by the American Taekwondo Association, and is a fifth degree black belt.
Lloyd will begin her duties at Denison on August 13, 2014.
College Swimming News courtesy of Denison Swimming & Diving.