Ohio State Director of Swimming and Diving Invoice Dorenkott has introduced updates to the teaching employees for the 2026-27 season. Emily Hetzer has been employed as an assistant coach and Michael Butler has been promoted right into a full-time hybrid function the place he’ll function each the director of operations and an assistant coach.
Hetzer joins the Buckeyes after two seasons as an assistant coach at Cincinnati. In her time with the Bearcats, she coached 4 NCAA qualifiers, two U.S. Olympic Crew Trials semifinalists and helped the workforce 17 college data and 105 prime 10 program instances. Previous to Cincinnati, Hetzer was a graduate assistant at Georgia Southern in the course of the 2023-24 season. On this function, she assisted in teaching the swimming and diving workforce, in addition to coaching the scholar athletes in endurance-based coaching and aided in coordinating recruiting efforts and workforce growth.
“Emily got here extremely really helpful to the Buckeyes through the College of Cincinnati,” stated Dorenkott. “Ohio State swimming and diving has a historical past of figuring out and creating rising stars within the teaching occupation. We imagine now we have discovered a future star in Emily Hetzer. From the second we first related, and as Emily visited campus, the sensation was mutual amongst our teaching employees, assist employees, and student-athletes that Emily aligned brilliantly with our tradition and imaginative and prescient for the long run. Emily has a excessive capability for work and skill to attach with younger individuals in a real and significant approach. We’re lucky to name Emily Hetzer a Buckeye.”
Hetzer competed collegiately at Auburn, the place she was an NCAA qualifier in all 5 of her seasons and was a four-time All-American. She additionally certified for the U.S. Olympic Crew Trials. She graduated with a bachelor’s diploma in kinesiology and train science in 2022 and earned a second bachelor’s diploma in psychology in 2023.
After serving in a time period function as an assistant coach in the course of the 2025-26 season, Butler has been promoted right into a newly created twin function the place he’ll function each the director of operations for swimming and diving, in addition to an assistant swimming coach. Throughout the 2025-26 season, Butler helped each the lads’s and ladies’s workforce to prime three finishes on the Large Ten Championships and assisted within the teaching and growth of 20 NCAA swimming qualifiers. Butler started his teaching profession as a volunteer assistant coach at Case Western in the course of the 2024-25 season, the place he ran practices, assisted with method growth, logistics and recruiting.
“Michael has endeared himself to our workforce and employees over the previous season by advantage of his robust work ethic, ardour for the game and want to assist our swimmers develop as college students, athletes, and folks,” Dorenkott stated. “Whereas his function this previous yr was serving in a short lived teaching place, now we have elevated Michael to a newly created twin function as director of operations for swimming and diving in addition to on deck obligations as an assistant coach. I’ve full confidence that Michael has what it takes to make a distinction for our present and future Buckeyes.”
Butler swam at Case Western from 2021-24 and was the previous file holder within the 1650 free. He earned bachelor’s levels in psychology and cognitive science from Case Western in 2025.
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