COLORADO SPRING, Colo. — Oakland swimming and diving head coach Pete Hovland and former coaches Tracy Huth and Ernie Maglischo were named to the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association's (CSCAA) 100 Greatest Coaches of the past century on Tuesday morning. Oakland alums Colleen Murphy ('97), Arthur Albiero ('96), and Sean Peters ('94) were also named to the list. 

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As the second-longest tenured active Division I head coach, Hovland has guided the Golden Grizzlies to 43 consecutive conference championships in men's swimming and 27 conference championships on the women's side since joining Oakland in 1979.

Under Hovland, Oakland has collected four NCAA Division II National Championships, 54 individual national champions, and 38 relay national champions. Hovland has been named a conference coach of the year 29 times and is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and Summit League Hall of Fame. 

To add, Hovland has coached more than 750 individual conference champions during his tenure at Oakland. Under Hovland's leadership, he has coached four Olympians and 14 NCAA Division I qualifiers.


Huth is the lone honoree on the CSCAA top 100 list as a coach and a swimmer. Huth spent 11 years as the head coach of OU's women's swimming and diving team, establishing Oakland as the premier program in the country at the Division II level. His teams finished in the top three nationally in nine consecutive seasons, winning five consecutive national championships and three straight runner-up finishes from 1990-97. Huth was named the NCAA Division II Coach of the Year three times for his team's accomplishments. 

Huth arrived at OU as a recruit the same year as Hovland and Maglischo in 1979. As a student-athlete at Oakland, Huthearned 24 All-American honors and 13 individual national championships. He was a four-time national champion in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley events and earned NCAA Division II Swimmer of the Year three times. He remains the only swimmer in NCAA history to have won both the 200 and 400 individual medley in four consecutive seasons.

Collectively, Huth spent over 30 years at Oakland, climbing his way from student-athlete to coach to assistant athletic director in 1998 and head athletic director from 2007-14. 

Maglischo coached the Golden Grizzlies (then Pioneers) men's team for two years, 1979-81, and led OU to its first national championship and set the groundwork for the successes to follow. Oakland won its first NCAA Division II title in any sport under Maglischo in 1980 and placed second nationally the following year. Maglischo was also responsible for bringing Hovland as an assistant coach and Huth as a student-athlete to Rochester. The legendary coach returned to Oakland as a volunteer assistant in 2002. 

Albiero was an 18-time All-American swimmer during his stay in Rochester, helping led Oakland to three straight NCAA Division II team titles.  He also earned three NCAA titles and was a Scholastic All-American three of those years.

He has served as head swimming coach at Louisville since 2003, recently leading the Cardinals men's and women's teams to a pair of top-five team finishes at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Furthermore, he has coached at the national level for Team USA, both as a head coach and an assistant. 

Peters swam at Oakland from 1991-94, where he was a four-time NCAA National Champion, earning his first titles as part of the 200 and 400-freestyle relay teams in 1993. In total, Peters earned 13 All-America honors during his collegiate career.

Peters is in his 25th season leading the Wayne State men's and women's swimming and diving programs. He has collected 20 GLIAC Coach of the Year awards (10 men, 10 women) and six CSCAA Division II national Coach of the Year honors (four women, two men). Peter has guided the Warriors to 20 GLIAC Championships (11 women, nine men) and one National Championship (women in 2011-12), while also leading 40 individual national champions, 14 national championship relays, and 377 Academic All-GLIAC athletes (171 men, 206 women). 

Murphy was a five-time All-American and three-time Academic All-American at Oakland. She was a scoring member of the 1994 NCAA Division II Championship team and was on three national runner-up teams (to Air Force in 1995 and 1996 and to Drury in 1997). 

Murphy is the first female swimming coach to ever win a national championship (Truman State) as a coach and is just a handful of swimming coaches in the country, male or female, to win a national championship as a swimmer (Oakland) and as a coach. From 2002-05, Murphy was the head coach at Truman State, where she led the women's swimming team to three national titles. She was named NCAA Division II Coach of the Year three times with the Bulldogs. 

About the CSCAA
Founded in 1922, the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), is the nation's first organization of college coaches. The mission of the CSCAA is to advance the sport of swimming and diving with coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development.