Greg Earhart, Head Coach

Greg Earhart begins his seventh season as head men’s swimming coach in 2008-09 (58-15 dual-meet record, 6 years).  He was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin's "Men's Swimming Coach of the Year" in 2002 and 2006 and CCIW “Co-Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year” in 2004.  In 2007, Earhart was named American Swimming Coaches Association “Coach of Excellence,” and in 2008, he received the College Swimming Coaches Association of America "National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy.”  Earhart, the youngest-ever recipient of the latter award, is only the sixth NCAA Division III member to receive the award in its 50-year history.

Earhart began his Carthage-coaching career in 2002 following six successful seasons as an assistant coach at both Indiana University (1998-2001) and the University of Minnesota (1995-98). Earhart helped Indiana return to national and Big Ten prominence. During his tenure, the Hoosiers broke every school record, earned 24 NCAA Division I All-American awards and gained two spots on United States national teams. At Minnesota, Earhart helped the Gophers to two second-place finishes at the Big Ten Swimming Championship, coached 16 NCAA Division I All-Americans, and one national champion and United States record-holder.

An active member of USA Swimming, Earhart served as director of the 2001 Regional Distance Camp and marshal for the 2000 Olympic Trials. He also serves as the chair of Wisconsin Swimming’s Technical Planning Committee. A product of a NCAA Division III himself, Earhart set three school records and graduated with degrees in history and political science from Buena Vista University in 1993. He earned his master’s degree in public policy from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in 1997. In addition to his duties as swimming coach, Earhart serves as director of the Koenitzer Aquatic Center and is part owner of CollegeSwimming.com

Telephone: 262-551-6192

E-Mail: gearhart@carthage.edu

Guy Gniotzynski, Graduate Assistant Coach

Guy Gniotczynski begins his first year as a graduate assistant coach in 2008-09.  A native of Thiensville, Wis., Gniotzynski is an assistant coach at the YMCA in Brown Deer, Wis.  He served as the coach for the combined St. Francis/Thomas More High School girl’s swimming team in Milwaukee, Wis., from 2003 to 2007.  Gniotczynski graduated from Carroll College (Wis.) in 2003 with a bachelor’s in biochemistry.

Tom Carroll, Part-Time Assistant Coach

Tom Carroll begins his third year as a part-time assistant coach in 2008-09, and he begins his first year as Carthage’s head women’s water polo coach in 2009.  A native of Elmhurst, Ill., Carroll was the head water polo coach for the Blue Devil Swim Club in Gurnee, Ill., from 2006 to 2007.  He has also coached high school swimming in Germantown, Wis., and Appleton, Wis., along with stints at the Nike Swim Camps and the Germantown Seahawks club swimming team.  Carroll attended Lawrence University, where he won 2002 and 2003 Midwest Conference titles in the 1,650 freestyle, along with a 2003 title in the 500 freestyle.  He graduated from Lawrence in 2003 with a bachelor’s in history. 

Dani Korman, Part-Time Assistant Coach

Dani Korman begins her third year as a graduate assistant coach for both men’s and women’s swimming in 2008-09.  Hailing from the storied swimming program at Kenyon College, Korman brings the Lady Reds and Red Men national-championship experience.  In her four years at Kenyon, Korman earned seven College Swimming Coaches Association of America All-America awards and broke the North Coast Athletic Conference record in the 200 yard butterfly.  She helped the Ladies win the 2003 and 2004 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming Championships, the 19th and 20th such titles in school history.  A native Niskayuna, N.Y., Korman graduated from Kenyon in 2006 with a bachelor’s in economics. Though new to the Red Men and Lady Reds, Korman is no stranger to Carthage, having spent four years as an assistant to Carthage head coach Greg Earhart at the Total Performance Swim Camps in Kenosha, Wis.