Passages: Jerry Holtrey, ASCA Corridor of Fame Coach, 86
Longtime Ohio highschool swimming coach and ASCA Corridor of Fame inductee Jerry Holtrey died on Dec. 23. He was 86 years outdated.
Holtrey spent greater than 45 years because the coach at Hawken College in Cleveland earlier than retiring in 2014. He led the Hawks to 26 state championships as a staff, together with 16 consecutive on the women facet to finish his tenure, a streak that might prolong to 24 titles and run by means of 2023. It was the third-longest lively streak within the nation when it was damaged.
Holtrey’s star pupils embody Olympic gold medalists Diana Munz, Melanie Valerio, Sharon Wichman and Matt Vogel. He mentored greater than 400 collegiate All-Individuals, 24 particular person occasion winners at Senior Nationals and high-point winners at each Senior Nationals and World Open Water Champions.
“Hawken College mourns the passing of legendary swimming coach Jerry Holtrey,” Director of Athletics Jim Doyle stated in a press launch. “Coach Holtrey devoted 45 years of his life to Hawken, starting in 1969, and constructed one of the revered swimming applications within the state.”
Holtrey started teaching in 1963. He took over the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins and joined Hawken in 1967.
As a swimmer, Holtrey competed for Huntington YMCA, which gained a YMCA Nationwide Championship in 1957 below coach Glen Hummer. He swam at Membership Olympia in Fort Wayne, Indiana, then in school on the College of Michigan (below Gus Stager) and Indiana (with Doc Counsilman).
He had transient teaching stints in Indiana with Membership Olympia and in Ashland, Kentucky, earlier than taking up the Silver Dolphins. Holtrey taught on the Hawken College from 1969-2008.
A multiple-time coach of the 12 months in Ohio and regionally, Holtrey was on the workers for 2 Pan Pacific Championships, in addition to USA junior groups in worldwide delegations.
He was elected to the ASCA Corridor of Fame in 2010.
