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Jennifer Wallace

Jennifer Wallace

Head Coach

Jen Wallace begins her 18th year as the head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Penn State Behrend. Wallace is also the aquatics director and a lecturer in kinesiology. In her 17 seasons, she led her team to fourteen straight AMCC Swimming and Diving Championships for the men, while the women have won eleven of the last fourteen. Wallace has been named AMCC Coach of the Year nine times, while mentoring 13 Divers of the Year, nine Newcomers of the Year and nine Swimmers of the Year. During this AMCC dominance, the men have posted a 47-32-2 overall record and the women were 36-52. In 2012-13, Wallace won the AMCC Coach of the Year on the men's side. Ten men and seven women earned All-AMCC first team honors, while capturing their seventh straight AMCC title. She also mentored the first-ever male swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships and earn All-American status. Wallace was a standout swimmer at the University of Pittsburgh. She was a NCAA qualifier in the 500 and 1650 freestyle. Wallace's accolades include being named the team's most improved swimmer as a sophomore, a Big East Scholar Athlete, and the University's Bell Atlantic Scholar. Wallace earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Pittsburgh in 1999. She completed her master's degree in education the following year. In 2007, Coach Wallace led the men's and women's swimming & diving teams to their first AMCC Championship. Wallace was a staff member at the Nike Swim Camp at Pittsburgh, and was an assistant at Franklin Regional High School during the 1999-00 season.