Frank Keefe
frank.keefe@yale.edu
(203) 432-2447

Head Coach Frank Keefe

Coach Frank Keefe enters his 25th year as head coach of Yale's Swimming and Diving Programs. Throughout his tenure at Yale, Keefe has successfully forged Yale Swimming's prestigious and illustrious past with his own unique drive for excellence and achievement. Keefe's undying commitment to the program and his sincere love of Yale Swimming is the driving force behind both teams' success. In 2002, the Eli men went 14-1 and the women 13-1. Keefe's overall record at Yale is 347-166. 2002 was a milestone for Yale Swimming as the men's program captured their 1000th win at the historic Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet in February. Through Frank's leadership and skill both teams have successfully emerged as contenders in their respective conferences.

Keefe, a 1960 graduate of Villanova, took over the men's program in 1978 and the women in 1980. In the past decade, Keefe has been the recipient of the EISL Coach of the Year award twice. In the past year the women's Ivy League named a trophy after him, citing his drive for excellence and acievement. Besides an extensive colligate background, Keefe boasts international coaching experience. One of the most respected figures in American Swimming, Keefe served as U.S. assistant coach in the 1984 Olympics and head manager at the 1988 Olympic games. Previously, Keefe served as U.S. head coach at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games, and assistant coach at the 1978 World Championships.

Before starting at Yale, Keefe had already coached nine Olympic swimmers. Among them were gold medallist Carl Robie and silver medallist Tim McKee. More recently, Frank coached George Gleason ('00) and Stephen Fahy ('00) to the 2000 Olympic games where they represented the Virgin Islands and Bermuda, respectively. Keefe is a member both the Villanova and state of Pennsylvania Halls of Fame.

Keefe is a native of East Haven, Conn., where he is also was enshrined in its Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Kathleen, have four children.

Tim Wise
timothy.wise@yale.edu
(203) 432-1498

Assistant Coach Tim Wise

Tim returns for his fifth year after serving as the head coach at Southern Connecticut in 1995 and 1996.  He also has been an assistant coach at Texas A&M and Arizona State.  A Wethersfield, Conn., native, Wise is a 1993 graduate of Southern Connecticut where he was a New England Championship finalist three years in a row and set numerous school records.  Wise also has been active in U.S. Swimming, serving as head coach for the Omni Swim Club and the Hamden-North Haven, Conn., Swim Club.

Assistant Coach Don Galluzzi

An ASCA Level 5 coach Don Galluzzi may be new to Yale University and Yale Swimming, but he is certainly not new to the Ivy League, the EISL, eastern or national swimming. Don has a proven record of success in working with a wide range of swimmers from "walk-on" to Olympic level. He has coached American records and an NCAA Division I champion, as well as a Rhodes Scholar.

After earning a B.A. degree in History at Rutgers University, and M.A. degree in Physical Education from Indiana University, Don served as Aquatics Director and Swimming Coach at Columbia University for 13 years. He went on to coach the men's and women's programs at Ohio, Fordham, Stevens Institute of Technology and, most recently, at Fairfield University. He has 288 NCAA career wins as a head coach, with winning percentage of .676, while rebuilding these eight different programs. The various teams he has coached have won 14 conference championships. Over the last five years all of his teams, both men and women, achieved Academic All-American status each and every semester. Don strongly believes in the philosophy that a healthy balance of challenging academic and athletic goals and social development, not only works, but is also the best preparation for an extraordinary life.

Assistant Coach Liz Davis

Liz joins the Yale Swimming staff as the fourth member with prior head coaching experience. Coming from Sacred Heart University, where she was head coach for the 2001-02 season and Fairfield University the year before, Liz joins Yale Swimming at a dynamic time. Her 10 years of competitive swimming experience and four years of coaching experience are sure to help Yale Men's and Women's Swimming become League Champions.

A native of Williamsport, PA, Liz swam for her local YMCA and had a successful career as a competitive swimmer. In the process of qualifying for Y Nationals, she broke three school records for her high school. She is still the record holder for the 100 and 200 breaststrokes at Millersville University, where she earned a B.A. in sociology and criminology. Her husband, Marc, is an assistant coach on the Yale Track team.

Diving Coach Jim Pyrch

Jim, an All-America diver at Southern Connecticut State (1972-76), joined the Yale staff as diving coach in 1982. Prior to arriving in New Haven, he served as an assistant at Northern Iowa and head coach at Fairfield. Pyrch also coached the U.S. Diving team at competitions in Lipsig, East Germany, the Soviet Union and China in the summer of 1990.  In 1991, he served as head diving coach for the U.S. at the World Age Group Championships in Sweden.  He also was a coach at the 1993 Olympic Festival. Presently, he is coaching returning EISL champion Josh Gallant ('04) as well as returning NCAA qualifiers Bates Gregory ('03) and Melanie Loftus ('05).