Indiana head swimming coach Ray Looze and head diving coach Dr. Jeff Huber have announced updates to next season's coaching staff. Looze has retained women's assistant Mike Westphal and hired Clemson assistant coach Pam Swander as assistants in the newly-combined IU swimming and diving program. Meanwhile, Huber re-assigned former Diving Events Coordinator, and Hoosier All-American, Jason Baumann to an assistant coaching role.

Mike Westphal enters his third season as an assistant coach for Indiana swimming. In his second campaign with the Cream and Crimson, the Indiana women's swimming and diving squad finished in ninth place with 112 points at the 2005 NCAA Championships. That feat now stands as the best finish at the national meet in IU annals, bettering the previous standard of a 10th-place tie in 2002. Additionally, five swimmers (Kristen Bradley, Doherty Colgin, Annica Lofstedt, Erin Smith and Leila Vaziri) earned All-American kudos this past season.

"We are very pleased to have Coach Westphal remain with the program," Looze said. "His presence will provide great continuity with the past success of the women's team, and I am excited with his potential for contribution to the men. He is one of the top young coaches in the country."

Westphal joined the Hoosier staff in July of 2003 after previously serving as the head assistant swim coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

At UNLV, Westphal handled recruiting duties for both the men's and women's programs, provided training programs for swimmers and managed the graduate assistants on the staff.

Prior to his stint with the Rebels, he served for two seasons (2000-02) as an assistant swim coach at the University of Pacific under Looze. In 2002, the Pacific men's and women's teams won Big West Conference titles, and the women's squad placed 15th at the NCAA Championships.

From 1999 to 2000, Westphal was the pool manager and head swim coach at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. He was also the head coach of the Evergreen Swim Club from 1997 to 2000. Westphal began his career as the head coach at Capital High School in Olympia, where he coached from 1996 to 2000.

Westphal experienced great success as a collegiate swimmer. He was a four-time NAIA All-American from 1993-1996 at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore., and also earned Academic All-America honors as a senior in 1996. Westphal was a three-time captain (1994-96) and garnered Linfield College Athlete-of-the-Year honors in 1995.

Westphal married the former Sarah Ewan in 2004. The couple resides in Bloomington. Westphal earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education from Linfield in 1996. He is also currently working towards his master's degree in sports management and athletic administration.

Swander just concluded her first season with the Clemson program. She has extensive experience working at the club and high school level and has coached a pair of Olympic Trial and 10 senior national qualifiers, while also mentoring four top-16 nationally ranked student-athletes. Additionally, she has claimed four coach of the year awards.

"Coach Swander brings with her a wealth of experience from coaching in the state of Indiana and most recently at Clemson," Looze said. "She is an outstanding technician and will excel at recruiting."

From 2001-04, Swander served as senior coach and Swim-America Director at Washington Township Swimming Club. While there, she coached 60 senior and 45 age group swimmers at one of the top clubs in the state of Indiana, while supervising 20 swim lesson employees and 800 monthly lessons.

From 2000-2001, Swander served as assistant senior and age group coach with the Indy Dolphins at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind., where she coached gold elite and senior developmental groups.

Prior to a three-year stint as head age group coach at Center Grove Aquatics Club in Greenwood, Ind., Swander headed the Yorktown Swim Club and High School programs from 1987-1997. Swander graduated from Arizona State University in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education.

Swander is married to her husband, Jeff, and they are the parents of two All-American collegiate swimmers. Her son, Kevin is heading into his senior season for the Hoosiers after claiming the 200-yard breaststroke crown at the Big Ten Championships during his junior campaign. Her daughter, Laura, just concluded her career at Auburn.

Baumann enters his fifth season at his alma mater and has an extensive coaching background. He assisted Huber for eight years with the Indiana Diving Academy, and in 1995 he served as the head diving coach at Bloomington South High School and Batchelor Middle School. In 1999, he became the head diving coach at the University of Wyoming. In his two years in Laramie, eight Cowboy divers made the finals at the Mountain West Conference Championships. In 2000, he coached the men's conference platform champion and, in 2001, was named the Mountain West Men's Diving Coach of the Year after all but one of his divers was a finalist in all three events.

"It is a very special occasion for me to have Jason Baumann join the IU diving coaching staff," Huber said. "Our relationship goes back to when I started him diving at the age of seven. After high school, he followed me to Indiana University where he was an IU diver, team captain, and All American. At that time, I felt fortunate to be able to continue coaching him, and I feel very fortunate now to continue working with him on our staff. He is a very bright individual who received his master's degree from IU and who truly believes that there is no better place to coach than Indiana University. His addition to the staff will greatly enhance our training environment and program."

Baumann has also coached current IU diver Lindsay Weigle on the juniors circuit. Under Baumann's guidance, Weigle captured the 14-15 East Junior Olympic National Championship on the 3-meter springboard. In 2002 and 2003, Weigle won the 16-18 Junior Olympic Championship in the same event. In 2001, he coached Indiana Diving to a fifth-place team finish at the 2001 East Junior Olympic Nationals, including the 14-15 age group National Champion on Girls' 3-meter. Weigle earned All-America honors in 2004 on the 10-meter platform and made her first U.S. National Team with a fifth place finish on the 10-meter at the 2004 Speedo National Championships.

Baumann's diving resume is extensive. A competitive diver for 15 years, he competed at five U.S. Junior National Championships, seven times finishing in the top 12. In high school, he won the Nebraska State High School Championship as a junior and was a two-time high school All-America selection. Following his junior year, he qualified for his first U.S. Outdoor National Championship.

In 1990, Baumann joined Dr. Jeff Huber as a diver at Indiana University. A four-time team captain and letterwinner during his career at IU, he was a five-time finalist at the Big Ten Championships, finishing among the top eight in all three events in 1994. He was the runner-up on the 10-meter platform in 1993. In 1994, Baumann also qualified for the NCAA Championships and earned All-America honors on the 10-meter platform. He competed 10 times at the U.S. National Championship, twice finishing 15th on the tower.

In 1993 and 1994, Baumann was named IU's Diver of the Year. As a senior in 1994, he won the Balfour Award. An eight-time member of the Alpha Beta honor society, he graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in political science and criminal justice with a minor in Mathematics. Additionally, Baumann completed a master's degree in Applied Sport Science in December 2004.

Baumann also serves on the U.S. Diving Senior Rules Committee. He also runs Indiana Diving and the Indiana Diving Academy.

Baumann and his wife, Jenifer, who is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, have a daughter, Sidney Reese.