Harvey Humphries

Assistant Swimming Coach - Georgia '79 - 23rd year

Few can think of Georgia Swimming without the name of Harvey Humphries coming to mind. Now in his 28th year with the Georgia swimming and diving program, including four years as a letterman (1976-79) and two as a graduate assistant (1979-80), Humphries has become an invaluable fixtures. Humphries is involved in all facets of the swimming program at Georgia, including concentration with the distance swimmers and heavily involved in recruiting. Humphries was a nominee for the 2002 AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year.

Apart from collegiate caching, the Little Rock, Ark., native has also served as a coach for U.S. Swimming (USS) select camps and Zone District camps and is currently on the international trip list as a level five coach for the NCAA and USS. In the spring of 1997, Humphries was assistant women's coach of the U.S. National Junior team, competing in Malmo, Sweden, and served as head men's coach for the U.S. National Junior Team's fall training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Locally, Humphries serves as head coach of the Athens Bulldog Swim Club (ABSC) which has developed some of the top talent in the southeast, including former Bulldogs and All-Americans Kara Manglitz and Paige Wilson and NCAA champion Matt Buck. Under his guidance, ABSC individuals have enjoyed five Junior National and four Senior National individual titles. ABSC women's teams have twice finished Top 10 at U.S. Nationals, while both men's and women's teams finished in the Top 10 in 1995.

Humphries has also served as senior chairman for age-group swimming in Georgia and was the first recipient of the Walt Schluetter Award, given annually to top national age-group coaches.

Spending his "off time" working for U.S. Swimming, Humphries was the head coach of the National Team Distance Camp in July of 1998 after serving as an assistant coach at the camp in 1995. Humphries also served as an assistant coach for the victorious South squad in the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival in St. Louis. Humphries has given his time to the Paralympic Games, working as a volunteer along with members of ABSC during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Humphries' international travels took him to Barcelona as an assistant coach of the National Junior Team in 1999, and most recently he served as the head men's coach for the 2002 Nationals Junior Team that competed in Rome this past summer.

Humphries graduated from Georgia in 1979 with a B.S. degree in microbiology. He and his wife, the former Wnedy Pirie, have an 14-year-old son, Billy, and a 11-year-old daughter, Pirie Anne.