Auburn Head Coach Richard Quick Earns CSCAA Lifetime Achievement Award
April 4, 2009
AUBURN - The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on Richard Quick, head men's and women's coach at Auburn University, at its annual convention, May 21-24 in Chicago. Quick, 66, who was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in December 2008, is the first-ever recipient of the award.
"It is fitting that Coach Quick be the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award," said CSCAA President George Kennedy. "His credentials are unassailable."
Quick, who is the first coach to win a national title at three schools, earned his 13th at the 2009 championships to surpass David Marsh for the most in NCAA Division I swimming history. Quick has accumulated a 229-46 dual meet record through 32 seasons, coaching at SMU, Iowa State, Texas, Stanford and Auburn from 1978-82 and 2007 to present.
Internationally, Quick was the head coach of the United States team at the 1988, 1996, and 2000 Olympic Games and also served as an assistant at the 1984, `92, and 2004 Olympics. While the head coach of both the men's and women's programs at Auburn from 1978-82, Quick built the foundation for where the program is today. He led both programs to a combined four top-10 finishes on the national level, while coaching 30 athletes who earned 152 All-American honors. At Texas, he led the Longhorns to five consecutive NCAA titles. While at Stanford, his teams won seven national championships and 14 Pac-10 championships, including 11 straight from 1989-99. Quick has been honored as the CSCAA's NCAA Coach-of-the Year six times. He is also eight-time conference coach-of-the-year, earning honors in the Southwest, Pacific 10 and Southeastern Conferences. In his first Olympic head coaching assignment at the 1988 Games in Seoul, the American men and women brought home 17 medals. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the women garnered seven gold, five silver and two bronze medals, while the men's and women's swimming squads combined for a total of 26 medals, the most by any team at the 1996 Olympic Games. His 2000 club brought home 16 medals, including seven gold. As an assistant at Athens in 2004, Quick's Team USA easily won the swimming medal count as the men's and women's team combined for 28 medals. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the United States captured 27 medals. A list of other international coaching assignments for Quick include four consecutive World Championships as the head coach in 1986, 1990 and 1994, and an assistant in 1982. He has also coached at the 1990 Goodwill Games, three Pan Pacific Games (1983, `85, `87), the 1985 World University Games and the 1979 Pan American Games.
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