USA Swimming, the nationwide governing physique for the game of swimming in the USA, in the present day introduced the election of Nic Fink and the reelection of Kathy Fish to its Board of Administrators. The group’s 10-Yr Athletes elected Fink and its eligible voting members of the Home of Delegates (HOD) elected Fish to four-year phrases on the Annual Enterprise Assembly.
Fink is a two-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist with robust skilled and governance backgrounds. Initially from Morristown, New Jersey, Fink graduated from the College of Georgia in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, with an emphasis in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a minor in Physics. Whereas coaching at Georgia, Fink was a member of the 2013, 2015, and 2017 World Championship groups, the 2014 Pan Pacific Championship staff, and the 2019 Pan American Video games staff.
Following the Olympic Video games in 2021, Fink moved to Atlanta to pursue a Grasp’s diploma at Georgia Tech College in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with an space of emphasis in Techniques and Controls and Digital Sign Processing, all whereas persevering with to coach and compete. From 2021 to 2024, he represented the U.S. in three lengthy course World Championships and one brief course World Championship, amassing 18 worldwide medals. On the 2024 U.S. Olympic Group Trials – Swimming, Fink certified for his second Olympic Video games within the 100-meter Breaststroke and was later elected as a staff captain by his friends on the Olympic staff. On the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, Fink received a gold medal and contributed to a World Document within the blended 4×100 meter medley relay. He additionally received two silver medals within the 100 meter breaststroke and the lads’s 4×100 meter medley relay.
Outdoors of the pool, Fink balances his swimming duties with a full-time job as an Assistant Mission Supervisor at Quanta Utility Engineering Providers, an organization that makes a speciality of engineering, designing, asset administration, and development for the electrical utility business. For the previous two years, he has additionally served because the Vice Chair of USA Swimming’s Athletes’ Advisory Council, which advises on and critiques packages, companies, guidelines, and different tasks that have an effect on Nationwide Group athletes. At present, Fink resides in Dallas, Texas, together with his spouse, Melanie Margalis Fink, who’s an assistant coach for the SMU girls’s swim staff.
Serving on the USA Swimming Board of Administrators for the previous 4 years, Fish was reelected to a brand new time period on Saturday. A 20-year swim father or mother, Fish was President of the Cincinnati Marlins and chaired “A Matter of fifty Meters,” partnering with the Metropolis of Mason to construct a 50-meter pool to allow progress and excellence. She competed for the Michiana Marlins and Michigan State on the Nationwide degree and volunteered as an age-group coach for 10 years.
In her skilled profession, Fish led Proctor & Gamble’s innovation program, a company of seven,000 proficient innovators around the globe with a $2 billion price range. She reworked how Proctor & Gamble innovates, investing in capabilities, applied sciences, and tradition to create innovation that improves customers’ lives every single day with manufacturers like Tide, Pampers, Pantene, and extra, strengthening the affect of innovation on the enterprise. Harvard Enterprise captured this transformation in a case examine. Previous to Proctor & Gamble, Fish earned a level in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State College. After retiring as Chief Analysis, Improvement & Innovation Officer and 41 years at Procter & Gamble, her purpose was to make use of her expertise and expertise to offer again to the game of swimming.
Throughout her first time period, Fish served as USA Swimming Board of Administrators Vice Chair, main the technique course of and dealing to streamline Key Efficiency Indicators to replicate priorities, drive accountability, and focus long-term technique on challenges that might disrupt USA Swimming. She additionally led the Nominating Committee redesign, leveraging a Board Cost to drive transparency, belief, and high quality of candidates. Fish additionally at the moment serves on the Board of Administrators of Balchem and Origin Supplies.
USA Swimming additionally acknowledges outgoing Board member Katie Meili for her service to the membership and for her dedication to swimming in the USA.
The entire record of USA Swimming Board of Administrators members is obtainable right here.
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