[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/cole.jpg” caption=”Andrew Cole”]McMaster has hired Andrew Cole as the new head coach of the McMaster swim program.

He comes to McMaster with 15 years of head coaching experience
including the Olympic Games, World Championships, World University
Games and Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Cole has served as a manager and coach of the Canadian Olympic Swim
Program. He was the manager and coach for the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics and Coach at the 2000 Sydney Olympic games.

He has worked with the national team at the World Championships on
four occasions. He coached at the World Championships in 1998
(Perth, Australia), 1999 (Hong Kong) and 2001 (Fukuoka, Japan) and was the technical manager in 2004 (Indianapolis).

Cole has coached all over the globe including the 1998 Goodwill
Games (New York), 1997 European Championships (Seville, Spain),
1996 Australian National Championships (Brisbane, Australia), 1995
British Championships(Sheffield, England) and 1993 World University (FISU) Games (Buffalo, New York)

He has coached at the university level for more than a decade. He
was the head coach of the University of New Brunswick from 1990 to
2001 where his teams captured more than 30 CIS medals.

Cole was a student-athlete at Dalhousie University named to the CIS
(Formally CIAU) First team as a swimmer in 1982, 1983, 1984, and
1985. He was the winner of 12 CIS medals, including a CIS Double gold in 1985. He was selected World University (FISU) Games Swim Team in his graduating year where he competed in Kobe, Japan. He graduated second in his class academically.

Most recently Cole was the director and head coach of the National
Swim Centre in Atlantic Canada.

McMaster director of athletics and recreation Therese Quigley
commented that, “Andrew will bring tremendous experience and vision
to the McMaster swim program and build on McMaster's history of
excellence in the pool.”

Cole will start immediately.

The McMaster swim team has captured 15 team gold medals in the
past 15 years.