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Mike Gallagher
Head Swimming Coach
Notre Dame College
coachmike@fastlaneswimming.net
Coach Gallagher is in his second season of competition at Notre Dame
College in South Euclid, Ohio. In his first season the women's team
placed 13th Nationally.
He was also the head coach at Baldwin-Wallace College for the seven
seasons. During that time, he was named the 2001 and 2005 OAC
Women's Coach of the Year. In 2002 and 2004, he lead the
Baldwin-Wallace Women's Team to their only two OAC Championship
titles.
Coach Gallagher has over 24 years of competitive swimming
experience at the age group, collegiate, and national levels.
Additionally, he has been teaching and coaching swimming for 20 years
from the beginner to the master's levels.
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Wally Morton
Head Coach
Cleveland State University
g.morton@csuohio.edu
Entering his 26th year as head coach of the Cleveland State men's swimming
team, Wally Morton just keeps winning. Last year, he guided the Vikings to a
Horizon League championship on his way to earning co-coach of the year
honors.
He has compiled a dual meet record of 219-126-1 (.634) with nine Penn-Ohio
Championships, a pair of MCC titles, a Horizon League championship and 22
seasons at .500 or better. Morton has also led the Vikings to five straight
seasons with at least 10 wins, compiling a 54-17 record in that span.
Additionally, the 1996-97 squad tied the 1946-47 team for most victories in a
season in school history with a 14-4 mark. Morton directed the Vikings to
back-to-back Midwestern Collegiate Conference titles in 1998 and 1999,
earning MCC Coach of the Year honors in 1999. He was named Coach of the
Year of the Penn-Ohio Conference six times, including three straight from
1984-1986.
During his coaching career, he has guided 46 swimmers to the United States
Senior Swimming Nationals, four to the NCAA Championships and also had an
Olympic Trials finalist.
Morton came to CSU in 1974 as the Aquatics Director of the brand-new CSU
Natatorium and as an assistant coach with the swim team. Morton was named
the head coach of the program in 1981 after CSU coaching legend Robert
Busbey retired, and has brought regional and national prominence to
Cleveland State.
The 1970 Miami (Ohio) graduate was a member of back-to-back Mid-American
Conference champion swim teams in 1966 and '67. Morton and his wife, Carol,
a professor at Baldwin-Wallace, reside in Strongsville, Ohio, with their son,
Robert.
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