Dave Durden was named ASCA Coach of the Year Friday morning. Durden, the head men’s coach at Cal-Berkeley, has four times been named NCAA Coach of the Year and earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic coaching staff this summer.
Durden helped place Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy, Jacob Pebley, Josh Prenot and Tom Shields on the Olympic team and played a role in Anthony Ervin getting on his third Olympic team. Those six athletes combined to win six individual medals in Rio—three of them gold—and Adrian, Murphy and Shields all won relay gold medals as well.
Durden began coaching at Cal in 2007, and he credited his predecessor, Nort Thornton, for introducing him to the level of excellence that would be expected in that role.
“It was Nort as well as Mike Bottom that had that Olympic expectation. I remember walking into Nort’s office and seeing the Olympic flag on the wall,†Durden said. “There were expectations set before me that I had to uphold.â€
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