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11 Facts About Jack Bauerle

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Jack Bauerle was born on February 7,1952 and is the former head coach of the University of Georgia men's and women's swimming teams.

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Jack Bauerle served as coach for the 2020 US Olympic Swim Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

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In 2010 Jack Bauerle was inducted into the La Salle College High School Alumni Hall of Fame.

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Jack Bauerle earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia in 1975and has three children, John, Magill, and Duke.

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Jack Bauerle began coaching the University of Georgia women's team in 1979 and later became head coach for the men's team as well in 1983.

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In 2000 Jack Bauerle was an Olympic swim coach; in 2003 and 2005, he was head coach for the Women's USA World Championship Team.

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On September 8,2006, USA Swimming announced that Jack Bauerle would be the head coach of the United States women's swimming team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Jack Bauerle has been named NCAA coach of the year five times and SEC coach of the year 12 times.

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Jack Bauerle was one of the nine assistant coaches to head coaches David Durden and Greg Meehan for the 2020 US Olympic Swim Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Georgia Bulldogs contingent consisting of seven swimmers, Javier Acevedo, Hali Flickinger, Natalie Hinds, Chase Kalisz, Jay Litherland, Allison Schmitt, and Olivia Smoliga, representing two different countries, United States and Canada, for which Jack Bauerle served as the head coach, was the largest group of NCAA swimmers from a single college or university in the United States to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games.

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Jack Bauerle's was nominated by the USA Swimming Foundation for their 2021 Golden Goggle Award for "Coach of the Year".