Cyndi Gallagher, Tracy Huth, Adam Soldati Finalists for 2025 Nationwide Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy
Cyndi Gallagher, Tracy Huth and Adam Soldati have been named finalists on Wednesday for the 2025 Nationwide Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy, awarded by the Faculty Swimming and Diving Coaches Affiliation of America.
CSCAA and NISCA award the Nationwide Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy yearly to a person making, “the best contribution to swimming and diving as a aggressive sport, and as a healthful, leisure exercise within the province of undergraduate and scholastic schooling.” This yr’s award can be bestowed Could 5 on the sixty fourth annual CSCAA Faculty Swimming and Diving Awards at its annual assembly in Raleigh, N.C.
CSCAA member coaches are eligible to vote now, via the CSCAA web site, via Feb. 4. A listing of previous winners is offered right here.
Gallagher was a trailblazer in her 31 years on the helm of UCLA’s girls’s staff. She led her alma mater to a 202-107-2 document in twin meets, 9 top-10 finishes at NCAAs, 15 top-15 outcomes and Pac-12 titles in 2001 and 2023.
Gallagher retired after the 2019 season, culminating 38 years in Westwood as an athlete, assistant coach and head coach. She was twice named Pac-12 Coach of the 12 months, in 1990 and 2003. She coached 11 Olympians, 21 convention champions and 91 All-People. Gallagher was the U.S. head coach on the 2007 World College Video games.
Huth spent 11 years as the top coach of Oakland College’s girls’s swimming and diving program earlier than transitioning to athlete administration. He led the Golden Grizzlies from 1987-97, fashioning them into one of many prime Division II packages within the nation and laying the groundwork for an eventual transition to Division I, which occurred in 2014 because the end result of seven years as the varsity’s director of athletics. Below Huth, Oakland gained 5 consecutive NCAA Division II titles. He was a standout swimmer at Oakland within the Nineteen Eighties, successful 13 NCAA titles, together with 4 NCAA particular person medley sweeps, and 24 All-American honors.
Huth spent 17 years in athletic administration at Oakland, the final seven because the AD. He moved to work with Gallagher as an assistant to the athletic director at UCLA, and since 2018 has labored in athletic administration on the College of Northern Colorado.
Soldati stepped down in 2024 from his management of Purdue’s storied diving program, having been on the helm for 19 years earlier than receiving a prognosis of ALS. Soldati led the Boilermakers to 14 NCAA diving titles and 34 USA Diving Championships, together with Olympic gold medalist David Boudia and Olympians Steele Johnson and Brandon Loschiavo.
