Iowa Central Community College Starts Swim Programs
FORT DODGE, IA , January 7th, 2008
Iowa Central Community College has named Jake Anderson, 31-year-old Muscatine native, as its swimming coach.
Where a need or opportunity to expand the college experience for students exists, Iowa Central makes every attempt to fill it. With that in mind, Iowa Central will offer a men’s and women’s swimming program beginning next fall and will further develop its partnership with the Fort Dodge YMCA to accommodate the team.
Anderson, who most recently spent three years as coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., is the son of Judd Anderson, longtime swim coach at Muscatine High School.
By adding swimming to its already impressive array of athletic programs, Iowa Central has opened another avenue to students, some of whom in the immediate area are already involved in high school swimming or aquatics at the YMCA.
Iowa Central swimmers will use the pool at the Fort Dodge downtown YMCA, where Anderson will also assist with YMCA aquatics programs.
The pieces are falling into place for Iowa Central to pioneer two more athletic teams and give students an option they don’t have at any other community college in Iowa.
Just as it was when Iowa Central started track and field, cross country and rodeo, no other community college in the state offers swimming.
There are many high school swimming programs around Iowa, mostly in the larger schools, and Fort Dodge has a history with swimming as the longtime former host of the girls’ high school state meet at the Fort Dodge Senior High pool.
The addition of a men’s and women’s swimming program will give students who choose the Iowa Central educational path, the chance to continue in their sport of choice at the collegiate level.
“I think we have the chance to be successful fairly quickly,’’ Anderson said. “I know what the competition level is because I swam at (two-year) Lincoln College (Ill.) and then coached there too.’’
After Lincoln College, Anderson moved on to swim for the University of Northern Iowa before going back to Lincoln as a coach. Anderson’s plans are to begin recruiting immediately for the 2008-2009 season. The college swimming season runs from October through March.
Where a need or opportunity to expand the college experience for students exists, Iowa Central makes every attempt to fill it. With that in mind, Iowa Central will offer a men’s and women’s swimming program beginning next fall and will further develop its partnership with the Fort Dodge YMCA to accommodate the team.
Anderson, who most recently spent three years as coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., is the son of Judd Anderson, longtime swim coach at Muscatine High School.
By adding swimming to its already impressive array of athletic programs, Iowa Central has opened another avenue to students, some of whom in the immediate area are already involved in high school swimming or aquatics at the YMCA.
Iowa Central swimmers will use the pool at the Fort Dodge downtown YMCA, where Anderson will also assist with YMCA aquatics programs.
The pieces are falling into place for Iowa Central to pioneer two more athletic teams and give students an option they don’t have at any other community college in Iowa.
Just as it was when Iowa Central started track and field, cross country and rodeo, no other community college in the state offers swimming.
There are many high school swimming programs around Iowa, mostly in the larger schools, and Fort Dodge has a history with swimming as the longtime former host of the girls’ high school state meet at the Fort Dodge Senior High pool.
The addition of a men’s and women’s swimming program will give students who choose the Iowa Central educational path, the chance to continue in their sport of choice at the collegiate level.
“I think we have the chance to be successful fairly quickly,’’ Anderson said. “I know what the competition level is because I swam at (two-year) Lincoln College (Ill.) and then coached there too.’’
After Lincoln College, Anderson moved on to swim for the University of Northern Iowa before going back to Lincoln as a coach. Anderson’s plans are to begin recruiting immediately for the 2008-2009 season. The college swimming season runs from October through March.
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