Eddie Reese
Reese at 68 in May, 2010 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | Texas |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 23, 1941 Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Playing career | |
| 1961–1963 | Florida |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1967–1972 | Florida (Asst.) |
| 1973–1978 | Auburn |
| 1978–2024 | Texas |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Conference Championships (44) NCAA Championships (1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021) | |
| Awards | |
| CSCAA Coach of the Year University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame Longhorn Hall of Honor International Swimming Hall of Fame | |
Edwin Charles Reese (born July 23, 1941) is a Hall of Fame American college and Olympic swimming coach, and a former college swimmer for the University of Florida. Reese won 15 NCAA team championships as the head coach of the University of Texas at Austin men's swimming and diving team from 1978 until retiring in 2024, having previously served as the men's head coach at Auburn University from 1973–1978.
He served with the United States' Olympic Swimming Team in 2004 and 2008, and was an assistant coach at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the winningest swim coach in history and is the only collegiate swim coach to win NCAA national team titles in five separate decades. He is widely regarded by many swimming historians as the greatest swim coach in history.