Jeff Berghoff Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa High School: Franklin Regional Position: Assistant Head Coach/Women's Swimming Alma Mater: Carnegie Mellon, 1994

email: berghoff@pitt.edu

Jeff Berghoff enters his fourth year as the Assistant Head Coach for Women's Swimming, while entering his 10th season on the Pitt swimming and diving coaching staff. He served his first three years as an assistant for the women's team before working with both squads for the last six years.

Berghoff has helped establish the women's team into a competitive force in the Big East Conference and also helped guide the men's team to two league titles in 2003 and 2004.

Most recently, Berghoff was instrumental in the Olympic Trial training of Kristin Brown and Stacie Safritt, who travelled to Omaha, Neb., this past summer. During Brown's four years as a Panther, he aided in her record-setting and back-to-back NCAA Championship qualifying career.

Additionally, Agnes Mago and Cookie McIntyre set school records last season, under Berghoff's watch.

Berghoff first became familiar with the Pitt swimming program due to his involvment with Team Pittsburgh Aquatics since 1997. He was the head coach at nearby Oakland Catholic High School for four years, where he coached 15 different NISCA High School All-Americans and the 1999 Pennsylvania State Championship teams, while coaching former Pitt standout Jordan Wallace as she attended O.C.

A native of Murrysville, Pa., Berghoff returns to Team Pittsburgh Aquatics in his 12th season and his second stint as Head Age Group Coach and has had 11 senior national qualifiers on the team.

In the spring of 2003, his club team went on to win the Speedo Championship Series, recording five individual champions. That summer, the women's 800-free relay became the Summer Sectional Meet record-holder for that event. Team Pittsburgh Aquatics also won the prestigious STAR Summer Invitational in Buffalo in 2003.

To add to his long list of accomplishments, Berghoff has coached eight Olympic Trial qualifiers, along with one Olympic Games participant and one All-Africa Games participant. Berghoff has coached several Allegheny Mountain Swimming record holders as well as two U.S. Open finalists and two senior national finalists. Other swimmers under Berghoff have won the esteemed Got Milk scholarship in addition to a finalist for both the Marshall scholarship and the Rhodes scholarship.

Berghoff earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. He lives in Monroeville, Pa. with his wife Mykie and sons; Ryan (15), Justin (9) and Jacob (5).