When you're considered one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders, it takes a team just to keep up. Johns Hopkins has hired Nick Charriez as assistant coach to replace Nikki Kett who has moved onto Penn Charriez comes to Baltimore after two years as assistant coach at Connecticut College. Hopkins also announced the additions of Ana Bogdanovski, Kylie Holden and Anthony Lordi to the staff. They join returning assistant coaches Sam Taylor, Katie Nolan and Taylor Kitayama.
That group will be busy this week as JHU head Coach George Kennedy is in Chicago to highlight the UnleashWD Summit Kennedy was tabbed by Forbes Magazine as one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders." Kennedy will address the topics of why 90 percent of all teams underperform; developing the “silver bullet” 100 percent buy-in; connection as an energy force and inside-out coaching. Kennedy’s four favorite words are “we can do better” and he will share his story of molding raw talent into a cohesive and focused team energized to produce outstanding results.
In his first year with the Camels, Charriez helped the men's team to program-best third and 12th place finishes, respectively, at the NESCAC and NCAA Championships. He also guided Samuel Gill to the 2014 NCAA title in the 100 Back. The women's team meanwhile placed fifth and 16th, respectively, at conference and national championships. In all, Charriez coached 11 Connecticut College swimmers to All-America honors and the teams combined to break 28 school records in 2014. Last season, the Camels broke a combined 14 school records and eight swimmers earned All-America honors. The men's team finished third at the NESCAC Championships and 19th at NCAAs, while the women took home sixth at the conference championship.
Charriez was a four-year member of the Kenyon Lords swim team that won the 2013 NCAA Championship and finished second in 2011 and 2012. He was a three-time NCAA qualifier and earned All-America honors twice in the 100 Fly and once in the 200 Fly. In 2013, Charriez received the Coaches' Award in memory of Joseph O'Daniel, given by the coaches to a swimmer who best demonstrates the true spirit of Kenyon Swimming. Charriez graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics.
Bogdanovski, a 2015 graduate of Johns Hopkins, returns to her alma mater after winning 10 NCAA titles and earning All-America honors 23 times. She owns the top 10 times in program history in the 50, 100 and 200 Free. Holden, also a 2015 graduate of Hopkins, competed at the NCAA Championships in each of her four seasons and earned All-America honors four times. Lordi graduated from Hopkins in 2014 after a standout four-year career for the Blue Jays. He captured All-America honors 21 times and won back-to-back NCAA titles in the 800 Free Relay as a junior and senior.
Nolan, a 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina, returns for her second season with the Blue Jays. A captain and NCAA All American for the Tar Heels, she finished fifth in the 100 Fly with a school record time at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Kitayama also returns for her second season after graduating from Hopkins in 2014. She garnered All-America honors 25 times, more than any other women's swimmer in program history, and as a member of five NCAA Champion relay teams. Taylor is back for his seventh year on Kennedy's staff and is a 1980 graduate of Hopkins. A seven-time All-American, he was a member of the 1977 and 1978 NCAA Championship squads and won an NCAA title in the 400 Medley Relay.
