Georgetown Head Coach Jack Leavitt Leaving Program after 9 Years
Georgetown College head swimming and diving coach Jack Leavitt introduced final week that he’s leaving this system after 9 years in cost.
Leavitt is taking up because the director of athletics at Campbell Corridor Faculty in Studio Metropolis, California.
Leavitt received 4 Massive East Championships on the helm of the Hoyas, together with simply this month.
“Leaving Georgetown is among the hardest selections I’ve ever needed to make,” Leavitt mentioned in a press launch. “This program, this college, and—most significantly—the folks right here have meant the world to me and my household. The previous 9 years have been an unbelievable journey of development, success, and transformation, however by way of all of it, the one fixed has been the relationships. Teaching these student-athletes has been a privilege, and the bonds we’ve constructed lengthen far past competitors. I’m so grateful for the chance to have led this program, and I go away realizing it’s in nice palms and primed for continued success.
“To my colleagues, particularly Pat (McArdle) and Lee (Reed), I couldn’t have requested for higher mentors and mates. Your steering, persistence, and unwavering assist have meant all the pieces. And to the directors, fellow coaches, and employees who’ve been there for our workforce each step of the way in which—I really admire all of you. Georgetown will at all times be part of me and my household. Hoya Saxa, without end.”
Leavitt led the boys’s workforce to the Massive East title 4 occasions, from 2022-25. His main pupils included Drew Carbone, the four-time Massive East Championships Most Excellent Male Swimmer and a qualifier for Olympic Trials in 2021. In 2024, Georgetown offered the Massive East Championships Co-Most Excellent Male Swimmer (Jack Januario) and Co-Most Excellent Male Diver (Nico Santiago), plus three Most Excellent Feminine Divers from 2017-20.
Leavitt and his employees had been named the Massive East Males’s Teaching Employees of the Yr thrice, in 2019, 2024 and 2025.
“Jack Leavitt redefined Georgetown’s swimming & diving applications in his 9 years on the Hilltop,” athletic director Lee Reed mentioned. “His ardour and dedication to this system constructed a championship tradition that I’m assured will proceed upon his departure due to the groundwork he laid. Whereas shedding a coach of his caliber is troublesome, what we are going to actually miss is the character he dropped at our division. Jack is a proficient coach, a mentor and a job mannequin for therefore many. Personally, I do know many in our division will miss him as each a colleague and a good friend. We want him and his household the easiest of their new chapter, and remind them that they may at all times have a house at Georgetown.”
