South Carolina Provides Jason Calanog as Affiliate Head Coach
South Carolina on Thursday introduced the hiring of Jason Calanog as an affiliate head coach for the boys’s staff.
Calanog switches his tackle throughout the SEC, having spent 9 years at Texas A&M, most not too long ago as an affiliate head coach because the fall of 2019.
“I’m actually excited that Jason has determined to affix us on the College of South Carolina, and I’ve the utmost respect and confidence in his skill to assist our males’s staff climb the nationwide collegiate rankings,” South Carolina head coach Jeff Poppell stated in a staff assertion. “I’ve identified Jason for fairly a while now and have all the time admired the fervour and vitality that he brings to the pool deck. His success on each the NCAA and world levels speaks for itself as he has developed among the high athletes in our sport from NCAA Champions to World Championship medalists. We sit up for welcoming him, his spouse Tracey, and their two boys to Columbia!”
In his 9 years in Faculty Station, the Aggies completed no worse than tenth at NCAAs. They have been within the high eight on eight events. The Aggies have been the runners-up on the SEC Championships in 2018 and 2020. Calanog was an instrumental half in that, as this system’s recruiting director. A type of recruits, Baylor Nelson, gained the SEC Commissioner’s Trophy because the excessive scorer at NCAAs in 2023 and 2024. He additionally guided Shaine Casas, the 2021 SEC and NCAA Male Swimmer of the Yr.
Calanog was a senior assistant coach on the Bolles Faculty and with membership staff Bolles Faculty Sharks in Jacksonville. Amongst his star pupils there was a younger Caeleb Dressel. He was a volunteer assistant for his Bolles mentor Sergio Lopez when Lopez gained the Massive East title in 2007 at West Virginia.
