Dave Durden

David Alan Durden is an American swimming coach, best known for serving as the men's head coach at University of California, Berkeley since 2007. With an exceptional history coaching Berkeley, as of 2023, he has led his teams to six NCAA Championships and eight finishes placing second in NCAA national competition, putting his teams first or second in NCAA national competition fourteen of his eighteen years as coach. Including both the men's and women's teams he coached as an Assistant at Auburn University, he helped lead the Tigers to another six NCAA championships during his tenure. His Berkeley swimmers Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy, and Josh Prenot, have collectively won 15 Olympic medals and in 2016, Durden's swimmers from Berkeley captured eight gold medals out of eleven won.

Durden was born on January 29, 1976. He began swimming around the age of eight, but quit when he was twelve growing tired of practices, not returning to competition until he was a Junior in High School. Graduating in 1994, he attended Jersey Village High in greater Houston, Texas, where he competed on their swim team, but did his primary training with Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club. In his Senior Year, swimming with an average High School team, he was the only swimmer from his school to qualify for and participate in the Texas Swimming and Diving State Championships.