Bob Hauck is in his 35th season as the head coach of the St. Olaf men's and women's swimming & diving teams in 2023-24.
Hauck has led 13 women’s teams and 16 men’s teams to conference championships. Under his guidance, the men’s team has had 11 top-10 finishes and the women’s team three top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III National Championships. Hauck has also coached six NCAA Division III individual national champions and 131 All-America swimmers and divers.
In 2009, Hauck and his father were named the NCAA Division III Co-Coaches of the Year for men’s swimming, and they have earned coach of the year honors from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ten times.
In addition to his coaching, Hauck was a record-setting and champion swimmer at the age group, high school, college, national and master’s levels. He swam at St. Olaf, where he was All-America 23 times, won seven national championships, set three national records and won the NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year Award in 1987, making him one of the rare persons to win both NCAA awards.
Hauck went to train for the 1988 US Olympic Trials in Santa Barbara, Calif. where he became one of the premier backstrokers in the country and was ranked in the top 25 in the world in the 200 backstroke in 1988. Hauck was a multiple senior national finalist and U.S. Open finalist. In 1987-88, he was a member of the United States Post-Graduate National Team. Hauck also swam internationally for Athletes in Action in the summer of 1989.
Hauck was inducted into the St. Olaf Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998, the Minnesota Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014, and the CSCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 2024. He was also honored among the CSCAA's 100 Greatest Men's Swimmers and Divers of the past 100 years in 2021.