Biography:
*1999 Women's NCAA Champions

*Named 1999 Women's Coach-of-the-Year for the NCAA's

*National Coach of the Year Award 1998, awarded for Division 1, 11, or III, men or women. *Winningest swim coach in the SEC.

*Winningest swim coach in UGA history. In 20 years as coach, Bauerle has an amazing .760 winning percentage, which translates into over 252 dual meet victories.

*Named 1998 Women's Coach-of-the-Year for both the SEC and NCAA'S. *1998 Season Final Team Rankings: Men - 7th and Women - 3rd in the country.

*Women's team won their first ever SEC Championship crown in 1997 and won their second SEC Championship in 1998.

*1997 Season Final Team Rankings: Men - 3rd and Women - 5th in the country.

Men's ranking is the highest in the program's history. Georgia was the only combined program with one head coach to have both teams in the top 5 in the country. Only the second coach in NCAA history to coach both Men and Women's programs to top 5 performances in one year.

* 8 time SEC Coach-of-The-Year Award and was named 1997 Coach-of-The Year for both Men's and Women's teams.

*More Academic All-Americans than any other swim coach in the country. During his tenure, Bauerle has produced 248 All-Americans and 319 Honorable Mention All-Americans.

*Bauerle has had a swimmer win an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship 9 out of the last 11 years. In 1997 Georgia produced 4 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners from the swimming program alone. Never before in NCAA history has one school produced 4 Post-Graduate Scholars much less 4 from one program.

*Number one college program in producing SEC Scholar Athletes.

*In 1989, he coached his first female national champion Erika Hansen in the 1,650 freestyle; Bauerle added his first national relay championship in the 200 Free at the Women's NCAA's in Austin, Texas in 1995; 1996 national champions: Lisa Coole in the Women's 1 00 Fly and Matt Buck in the Men's 200 Breast; 1997 national champion Kris Babylon in the 200 IM; 1998 national champions Kristy Kowal 200 Breast, Keegan Walkley 100 Back, and Julie Varozza 1650 Free.

*Bauerle has produced 42 SEC Champions (33 individual, 9 relay); 9 lndv and 2 Relay at the 1997 SEC Championships

*2 of his former swimmers and one current team member competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Sheila Taormina who swam under Coach Bauerle from 1988-96 was a member of the Gold Medal winning 800 meter free relay.

*Lisa Coole, a former swimmer under Coach Bauerle, was named the 1997 NCAA Woman of the Year.

*Kristy Kowal, a current UGA swimmer for Coach Bauerle, holds the American record for the 1 00 Breaststroke.

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U.S. Swimming History
*Member of the 1999 USA Swimming National Team Staff * Assistant Coach at Women's Pan Pacific Games in Sydney Australia, August 1999 *Recently nominated as one of 3 coaches for U.S. Swimming Coach of the Year. *Head Coach for the 1997 World University Games to be held in Italy this July *Women's Coach at Pan Pacific Games in Atlanta, 1995 *Head Coach US National Team Camp in Colorado, November 1994 *Head Elite Distance Camp Coach in Hawaii, 1992, United States and Australia *Assistant Coach at the World University Games in Sheffield, 1991 *Coach at the US Olympic Festival, 1989

*Based on two national championship performances at U.S. Senior Nationals at Nashville to both Kristy Kowal and Amanda Adkins will represent the United States in Perth, Australia in January at the World Championships.

* World ranked swimmers: Michael Norment, Kristy Kowal, Bobby Brewer, Beau Wiebel, Ashley Roby, Kim Black

*Married to the former Frances Ruth Fowler of Athens, GA *Two sons: John Randall & Stuart Magill

* Hobbies: tennis (Guinness World Book Record for most consecutive hours of continuous doubles tennis match at 125 hours or 5 1/2days straight), surfing, basketball, hunting, fishing, traveling. Recent trips to Scotland, England, Iceland, Alaska and Australia.

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