Mark Wilson

Thom Swarr

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Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach

Mark Wilson completed his seventh season as head coach of the Elizabethtown College men's and women's swim teams in 2017-18.

Wilson was appointed head coach, Aug. 1, 2012, after serving as interim head coach during the 2011-12 season. Prior to taking the head job, Wilson spent two seasons as an assistant to former head coach Dan DeHass.

COACHING THE MEN
E-town's dual meet win total went up in each of the last three seasons from two in 2014-15 to six in 2017-18 --a new best under Wilson. The Blue Jays finished with a 6-5 record, their first dual winning season in more than two decades.

Casey Marshall twice broke his own school record in the 100-yard butterfly (52.31) at the 2018 Landmark Championships to finish seventh. Two additional long-standing program records also fell as Alec Schneider, Alex Pecher, Marshall and David Foery set a new standard in the 200 freestyle relay (1:28.60) and Marshall, Pecher, Austin Dolaway and Foery combined for a 7:22.10 in the 800 freestyle relay.

Wilson guided the men to a fifth-place finish at the Landmark Championships in 2018, a program best in four seasons as a member of the conference.

During the 2016-17 season Wilson oversaw a pair of school records. Marshall broke Tommy Kuhn's 100 butterfly mark from a year earlier and the 200 medley relay team of Marshall, Kieran Koehler, Kuhn and Schneider set a new benchmark by less than one tenth of a second with a time of 1:38.27.

Wilson transitioned the Blue Jays from the Middle Atlantic Conference to the Landmark prior to the 2014-15 season. On the second day of the 2016 championships, Kuhn topped Robert Sahm's 46-year old 100 butterfly school record with a time of 53.86.

In 2013-14, the Elizabethtown men won a pair of dual meets and placed freshman Kieran Koehler into the championship final of the 100 breaststroke and consolation final of the 200 breaststroke at the MAC Championships. Koehler achieved the program's two best individual finishes at the meet, taking seventh in the 100 breaststroke and 11th in the 200. Frank Capria finished 12th in the 1650 freestyle and Michael Rentschler advanced to the consolation final in the 200 butterfly, as the Blue Jays finished 10th.

Wilson's interim season, 2011-12, produced a seventh-place finish at the MAC Championships. The 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay and 400 free relay teams all finished sixth to claim All-MAC Second Team honors. Ryan Hannon qualified for the championship final in the 100 and 200 back, placing eighth in both events, while Capria was 10th in the 1650 freestyle.

COACHING THE WOMEN
The 2017-18 season turned out to be a historic one for Wilson and the Blue Jay women when Sara Lingo became Elizabethtown's first Landmark Conference gold medalist. Lingo swam to the championship and All-Landmark First Team honors in the 400-yard individual medley with a school record time of 4:43.77, ending a nine-year gold medal drought for the Blue and Gray.

Lingo also placed fifth in the 500 freestyle at the 2018 Landmark Championships, a season removed from winning bronze in the 400 IM as a freshman.

During the 2015-16 season-opening meet, the Susquehanna Schweikert Relays on Oct. 23, E-town's 200-yard freestyle relay team of Rachel Engelhardt, Dayna Stewart, Amanda Long and Elizabeth Finnegan established a program record time of 1:38.93. It marked the second school record for the program with Wilson at the helm after Becki Lane set the school's 50 freestyle record (24.74) back in 2013-14.

The women's team collected five dual wins in 2013-14, its most in Wilson's tenure. Lane reached the podium and collected an All-MAC Second Team fifth-place finish with her program record time in the 50 freestyle at the MAC Championships. Lane also qualified for the championship final in the 100 freestyle, finishing seventh.

At the 2013 MAC Championships, the 200 freestyle relay team of Elizabeth Finnegan, Lane, Rachel Engelhardt and Jennifer Malik scored a fifth-place finish to be named All-MAC Second Team.

Wilson's first year with the women's program (2011-12) ended with Abby Mitchell capturing a fourth-place All-MAC Second Team finish in the 200 butterfly and a seventh-place finish in the championship final of the 400 IM. The 200 freestyle relay team took the final All-MAC Second Team spot by finishing sixth.

Wilson is a 1984 graduate of nearby Millersville University where he was a member of the swim and water polo teams.

MARK WILSON YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD MEN'S SWIMMING
Year	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Conference Champ. Finish	Notes
2011-12	4	7	0	.364	7th/10 (MAC)
2012-13	3	9	0	.250	9th/11 (MAC)
2013-14	2	10	0	.167	10th/11 (MAC)
2014-15	2	7	0	.222	8th/8 (Landmark)
2015-16	3	7	0	.300	6th/7 (Landmark)	Tommy Kuhn 100 Fly School Record
2016-17	4	4	1	.500	6th/7 (Landmark)	Casey Marshall 100 Fly School Record 200 Medley Relay School Record
2017-18	6	5	0	.545	5th/8 (Landmark)	Casey Marshall 100 Fly School Record 200 Free Relay School Record 800 Free Relay School Record
7 seasons	24	49	1	.331

WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Year	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Conference Champ. Finish	Notes
2011-12	4	7	0	.364	8th/10 (MAC)
2012-13	2	10	0	.167	10th/11 (MAC)
2013-14	5	7	0	.417	9th/11 (MAC)	Becki Lane 50 Free School Record
2014-15	3	6	0	.333	9th/9 (Landmark)
2015-16	4	7	0	.364	8th/8 (Landmark)	200 Free Relay School Record
2016-17	4	6	0	.400	7th/8 (Landmark)	Sara Lingo 400 IM Landmark Bronze Medalist
2017-18	4	8	0	.333	7th/8 (Landmark)	Sara Lingo 400 IM Landmark Champion Sara Lingo 400 IM School Record
7 seasons	26	51	0	.338

Updated 6/26/18