University of New Hampshire

Josh Willman is currently in his 31st season at the helm of the University of New Hampshire swimming & diving program in 2022-23. 13 X CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS (11 AE AND 2 ECAC) Willman has led the program to great success during his tenure at UNH. The Wildcats have won the America East Championship in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The 11 championships are the most by a program in conference history. The Wildcats have also earned two ECAC Team Championships (2003 and 2011). 21 X COACH OF THE YEAR (17 AE AND 4 ECAC) Willman is the America East Conference’s most highly decorated coach. He has been selected America East Coach of the Year a league-record 17 times (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and ECAC Coach of the Year four times (2003, 2011, 2013 and 2014). 54 MAJOR CONFERENCE AWARDS New Hampshire swimmers are the most highly honored student-athletes in the America East, winning 54 major conference awards including 26 Swimmers of the Year (18 America East, seven ECAC, one NAC), 10 America East Scholar-Athletes of the Year, nine Rookies of the Year and nine Dave Alexander Coaches Awards. During Willman's tenure there has been 420 America East champions and 113 ECAC champions. The Wildcats have won 164 individual America East championships and 64 relay titles. UNH has also been a power at the ECAC Championships winning 54 individual titles and 18 relays for 72 total championships. Also three times Willman has coached a swimmer to a gold medal at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships. Wildcat swimmers have broken over 260 school records, 111 America East records and 29 ECAC records. 12 X NCAA QUALIFIERS Twelve times Willman has coached an athlete that qualified for the Division I NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. Willman produced UNH’s first-ever NCAA Division I qualifier in 1995 when Denise Leckenby reached the NCAA Championships. She also qualified in 1996 and 1998. She earned All-America honors in 1996, placing eighth in the 200-freestyle and 11th in the 100-freestyle. UNH went on to finish 27th in the nation at the 1996 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. Leckenby also was named an All-American in 1998. Shannon Daly (2006), Kary Goodman (2006), Jenni Roberts (2013), Katie Mann (2013, 2014 and 2015) and Anna Metzler (2020, 2021 and 2022) also qualified for the NCAA Championships. NATIONAL HEIGHTS Another major milestone that Willman led UNH to was on Feb. 21, 2013 as the national polls were released by CollegeSwimming.com, the Wildcats earned the 19th spot in the rankings. It was the first time UNH was ranked in the top 20 in the Division I Poll. Then on Feb. 18, 2014, the Wildcats were ranked 14th overall in the CollegeSwimming.com Division I national poll, their highest ranking in program history. Among the top-five schools were the University of Georgia (1), Stanford University (2), University of Southern California (3), University of California (4) and University of Florida (5). OLYMPIC TRIALS Willman led the program to another major first when he coached New Hampshire native and breaststroke standout Kristen Zeimetz who was a finalist at the 2000 U.S. Open and participated in the 2000 U.S. Olympic team trials. UNH has then gone onto consistently have swimmers compete at the elite level representing not only the United States but more recently in the international arena with Wildcat swimmers competing at Senior Nationals and the Olympic Trials for their home countries including Canada, South Africa and Denmark. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE New Hampshire is consistently an Academic All-America team and swimmers have earned NCAA Academic All-American honors, post-graduate scholarship awards and ranked as high as sixth nationally for grade point average. Willman began his coaching career just after graduating from Miami when he coached at the YMCA and U.S.A. Swimming level. He entered the collegiate coaching arena as the assistant coach for New Hampshire in 1991, taking over the program the following season when he earned his first coaching honor as the Men’s Coach of the Year in 1992-1993. Willman is a certified ASCA Level IV coach and has been a recipient of the ASCA Coaching Excellence Award.

Caleb Potvin is currently in his second season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in 2023-24. During his first season in 2022-23, the Wildcats posted a 6-2 dual meet record and won the America East Championship, while the team won four out of five relays at the America East Championships. Also during Potvin's first season, four new individual top-5 all time program performances and two new relay all-time top 5 program performances were set. The team reached new heights academically posting all-time team-best GPAs of 3.67 in the fall and 3.68 in the spring. Potvin spent the previous two seasons as the head coach of the Stonehill Skyhawks women's swimming program. He led the formation of the college's inaugural swimming program and coached the team to a 6-3 inaugural dual meet record. Potvin guided the team to place the highest out of all non-division I teams at the 2021 ECAC winter championships. He coached 22 finalists, including 12 A-finalists, with six top-five finishers and a conference champion in their first conference championship. His inaugural recruiting class had a cumulative GPA of 3.85 through their first three semesters, while the Skyhawks received CSCAA All-Academic distinction every semester. Prior to Stonehill, Potvin was a senior level assistant coach for Aggie Swim Club in College Station, Texas, where he had regular involvement training swimmers who qualified for USA national circuit meets such as sectionals, futures and winter junior nationals. He is a current USA Swimming coach member and earned American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Level 3 certification. Potvin got his start in coaching as head coach of The EDGE Swim Club outside of Burlington, Vermont, for five years. He received the Champlain Valley Swim League Coaching Excellence Award and served as primary coach for senior level swimmers. The team won five straight state and league championships where prior to his tenure the team never placed better than fourth and also produced the state’s only national championship qualifier in over a decade. Potvin, his wife Olivia and children Atlas, Ivy and Ryder reside in Nottingham, N.H.