JOE DYKSTRA
Head Coach

The Utah swimming and diving teams have had an impressive first five seasons under head coach Joe Dykstra. 

Last season, Utah broke a pair of relay records on the men's side as Dykstra sent his largest Ute contingent to the NCAA Championships. In the 200 medley Paul Ungur, Jack Burton, Ben Scott and Rodolfo Moreira swam a time of 1:24.46 in the morning's preliminaries. In the finals, they finished with a time of 1:24.59 to become the first Utah relay team to earn All-American status since 1975.

In the 200 free relay, Ungur, Moreira, Liam O'Haimhirgin and Austin Phillips finished with a time of 1:17.94 to set a new program standard. Ungur was also a standout at the Pac-12 Championships, capturing the 100 back, setting a new school record and becoming the first individual medalist at the conference event (third in program history). 

Ungur, Burton, Scott and O'Haimhirgin would also smash the school record in the 400 medley relay. and for the second year in a row, Scott broke the school record in the 200 fly at the annual Pac-12 event.

On the women's side, Jordan Anderson reached the NCAA Championships for the first time, competing in the 400 IM and 200 fly. She set the school record in the 400 IM at the Pac-12 Championships while teammate Sarah Lott did the same in the 200 back.The Utah women had a 3.46 grade point average during the 2018 spring semester after recording a 3.49 GPA in the fall of 2017, its highest mark since 2010. This was the 11th-straight semester the Utes earned a team academic award from the CSCAA. Utah had seven CSCAA Scholar All-Americans and placed 14 swimmers on the Pac-12 All-Academic Teams

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MICHELE LOWRY
Co-Camp Director & Head Distance Coach

Michele Lowry is in her sixth season with the University of Utah swimming and diving team and serves as assistant head coach/head distance coach.
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During her second season at Utah, Bence Kiraly finished fourth in the 1650 and 11th in the 500 freestyle at the NCAA Championships.  Kiraly’s 1650 was the highest placing swim for the Utes in more than two decades.

In her first season with the Utes, Lowry helped coach Kiraly to Utah's first-ever Pac-12 individual championship in the 1650 free, which he also qualified for the NCAA Championships. She was also instrumental in guiding Sami Zuch to the NCAA Championships in the 1650 free, as well as her setting new school records in both the 1000 and 1650 free events.  
Prior to her move to Salt Lake City, Lowry was an assistant coach at North Texas for three years, where she helped the Mean Green rewrite 36 different school records and capture a second-place finish at the 2013 Sun Belt Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. 
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JONAS PERSSON
Co-Camp Director & Associate Head Coach

Jonas Persson returned for his second stint at Utah in September 2019 when he was named associate head coach after three seasons as the head coach at the University of Toledo
  
Persson was the head sprint coach at Utah for five seasons, helping student-athletes break every men's team record and 17 women's team marks, in addition to 55 top-10 all-time performances. He coached seven swimmers that qualified for the NCAA Championships and 11 that ranked in the top-50 nationally.
 
Persson was influential in helping Nick Soedel become the first Ute ever to medal at the Pac-12 Championships (bronze in 2013) and earn Utah's second individual championship with his first-place finish in the 100 free (2014) where her garnered All-American honors. Soedel also placed fifth in the 100 freestyle and 14th in the 50 freestyle at the 2015 NCAA Championships, earning him honorable mention All-American honors.
 
Persson coached All-American Traycie Swartz to an 11th-place finish in the 100 freestyle at the 2014 NCAA Championships. Swartz was a three-time Pac-12 championship finalist and held records in the women's 50 and 100 freestyle, and the 100 backstroke. Persson also had a hand in helping Utah earn a first Pac-12 Champion by recruiting Bence Kiraly, who won the 1,650 freestyle in 2014.
 
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JOS SMITH
Assistant Coach

Jos Smith was hired as assistant swim coach in October 2018.

Smith arrived in Salt Lake City after two years as an assistant swim coach and director of recruiting at Pitt. While working with the Panthers, both teams increased their point totals at the ACC Championships, breaking 17 school records last season. In total, nine Panthers advanced to the NCAA Championships

Prior to Pitt, Smith was an assistant swim coach at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. In Wilmington, he coached all of the specialty groups for both the men's and women's teams, primarily headlining the distance squad. He helped coach two conference finalists and a school record setter, in addition to helping with recruiting efforts.

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TAMI JOHNSON
Director of Operations & Alumni Relations

Johnson enters her seventh season with the Utes and she begins her fifth season as the Program's Director of Operations & Alumni Relations.

Johnson joined the University of Utah coaching staff as an assistant coach in August 2012. During Johnson's first season with the Utes, she coached the breaststroke and butterfly groups to five individual NCAA `B' cuts and a school record in the 200 breast. She was also part of the 2012-2013 Utah coaching staff that had three individual NCAA qualifiers and set 12 new school records.
 
During the 2013-2014 season, Johnson was part of the staff that saw record-setting performances and one of the most successful seasons in history of the Utah Swimming and Diving program, which included the teams setting 28 new school records, having two Pac-12 Conference individual champions, 17 NCAA participants and four NCAA All-Americans.
 
In the spring of 2014, Johnson transitioned to Director of Operations & Alumni Relations for the program.  During her time in this role, she has led the day-to day team operations, overseen fundraising campaigns, doubled the active swimming and diving alumni base, hosted the China Coaches Program in 2016 and 2018, and presented at the University of Arizona’s inaugural International Sports Diplomacy Conference earlier this year. 

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