Frank Busch (born February 4, 1951) is a national team and Olympic swimming coach from the

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. He was a coach for the USA Olympic teams in

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and

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Biography

Busch was born in

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, Ohio, on February 4, 1951. He graduated from

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in 1969. Busch began his coaching career at age 16 in

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. After seven years in summer league coaching at Brookwood Swim Club and four years of AAU coaching for the Northern Kentucky Piranhas, he joined the staff of the

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for the 1979–80 season as the Associate Head Coach. The Marlins won the National Team Championship that season and placed six swimmers on the 1980 United States Olympic Team. From 1980 to 1989, Busch coached at the

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. From 1989 to 2011, he served as the swimming head coach for the

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at the University of Arizona. His swimmers won 49 NCAA individual titles, 31 NCAA relay titles, and 2 NCAA team championships. While at Arizona, he also led Tucson Ford Aquatics (previously Hillenbrand Aquatics) to several national team championships. In May 2011, Busch began serving as

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's National Team Director, providing the overall vision and leadership for the sport's top coaches and athletes. Under his tenure, USA Swimming won 31 medals at the London Games (2012) and 33 medals at the Rio Games (2016). In both of these Summer Games, USA Swimming's successful campaigns represented 30% of Team USA's total medal count.Frank Busch named USA Swimming National Team Director
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on 2011-02-02; retrieved 2011-07-07.

Awards

During his collegiate coaching career, Busch was named Coach of the Year by the

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six times,

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11 times, USA Swimming (in 1998), and the USOC (1998). In 2008, he was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame.Hall of Fame subpage
of the ASCA website (www.swimmingcoach.org); retrieved 2011-07-07.

Personal life

Busch is married (Patrice).

References

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