BALTIMORE, MD – As part of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America's (CSCAA) Centennial Celebration, the association has named its list of 100 Greatest College Swimming & Diving Coaches of the past 100 years. Former Johns Hopkins coaches Frank Comfort, Tim Welsh and George Kennedy were selected.
 
Just over 500 coaches were nominated. A blue ribbon committee of 58 voters selected from 263 finalists, each focusing on a particular sport (swimming or diving) and Division. A steering committee consisting of Anne Goodman James, Peter Hovland, Bob Groseth and Jon Lederhouse then vetted an finalized the selections.
 
Comfort coached the Blue Jays from 1969 to 1977 before departing Baltimore to become the head coach at the University of North Carolina. He led the Blue Jays to an 82-36 record, eight MAC Championships, four Mason-Dixon Championships, two NCAA Runner-up finishes and the 1977 NCAA Championship. Comfort coached 159 All-Americans, 22 individual national champions and one relay national champion in his nine seasons in Baltimore. In addition, he coached the Blue Jay women in their first two seasons and led them to a 12-5 record and back-to-back MAC Championships. Comfort was inducted in the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997.
 
Welsh led the Johns Hopkins men to a 64-34 dual-meet record, eight MAC Championships, two NCAA Championships (1978, 1979) as well as a pair of national runner-up finishes in his eight seasons with the Blue Jays. He coached 210 All-Americans, 21 individual national champions and four relay national champions before taking over as head coach at the University of Notre Dame. On the women's side, Welsh led the Blue Jays to 50 wins, the program's first-ever conference championship and the program's first four trips to the NCAA Championships. He coached 18 All-Americans, including the program's first-ever honoree.
 
Kennedy took over for Welsh and won 373 dual meets and 24 conference titles. He coached 31 national champions and more than 1,500 All-Americans in 31 seasons before retiring in 2016. At the NCAA Championships, the Blue Jay men and women finished in the top-10 an impressive 48 times, including 21 top-five finishes. Kennedy was also a part of the 28 consecutive conference titles won by the men's team from 1971 through 1998. At the time, that streak was tied for the third-longest in any sport in Division III history. Kennedy was named the national coach of the year seven times and was inducted in the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.