Mary Bolich

• Mary Bolich - Head Women's Swimming Coach

  Mary Bolich recently completed her second season as the Men's & Women's Swimming Coach at Wesleyan University. Prior to coaching at Wesleyan, she was the Head Women's Swimming coach at The University of Iowa for four years. The following are a few of the team's accomplishments from 1996-2000: four 2000 Olympic Trial qualifiers, three NCAA qualifiers, two All Americans, one Big Ten Champion, 20 team records, and the 2000 University of Iowa Athlete of the Year. Academically, Mary's teams produced five Academic All Americans, 37 Academic All Big Ten honors, 5 All NESCAC Honors, 2000 University of Iowa Scholar-Athlete of the year, 2001 Wesleyan Scholar-Athlete of the year, and Wesleyan Women's team ranked #1 among all Division III schools with their team GPA in spring 2001.

  Before coaching at Iowa, Mary spent seven years at Penn State as an assistant women's swimming coach. She also was an instructor in PSU's department of Exercise & Sport Science. Mary came to Penn State from the University of California at Berkeley where she was an assistant during 1988-89. Cal finished fifth as a team at the NCAA Championships that year. From 1986-88, Mary was the assistant swimming coach at the University of Pittsburgh. The 1987 and 1988 teams won the Big East Championships. Mary received her B.S. degree in 1984, and Master's degree from Temple University in 1986.