University of Texas males’s swimming head coach Eddie Reese plans to retire after subsequent season, his forty sixth in Austin, ending a profession that’s included teaching at the very least 30 Olympians and serving as males’s head coach of three U.S. Olympic groups.

Reese, 82, will coach by means of subsequent June’s Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, in line with the University of Texas.

Reese beforehand introduced a retirement after the 2021 NCAA season, then returned earlier than the next season after the athletic director requested if he would rethink.

“Working with swimmers has been one of the true joys of my life,” Reese said in a press release. “In my life, I’ve discovered that the most important thing for us to do in this world is help others, whether it be for something simple or complex. It has been an honor for me to be a part of this program.”

Reese coached at his alma mater of Florida (1967-72, as an assistant) after which Auburn (1972-78) earlier than being employed by Texas in 1978.

A person who had been coached by Reese made each U.S. Olympic group from 1976 by means of Tokyo in 2021. At least certainly one of them earned a gold medal at each Games from 1984 by means of 2016.

Reese’s greatest stars included particular person Olympic gold medalists Rick Carey, Gary Hall Jr. and Aaron Peirsol.

Reese was head coach of the U.S. Olympic males’s swimming group in 1992, 2004 and 2008. The solely different individual to be head coach of three U.S. Olympic males’s groups was Bob Kiphuth in 1932, 1936 and 1948.

An Olympic head coach is most identified for setting, or serving to set, relay lineups. So Reese was on the helm for probably the most well-known relay in swimming historical past — the U.S. males’s 4x100m freestyle in 2008, the place Jason Lezak rallied previous Frenchman Alain Bernard on anchor to maintain Michael Phelps’ eight-gold-medal bid alive.

“I just remember right before the race, Michael, Lezak, Garrett [Weber-Gale] and I standing in the back,” relay group member Cullen Jones stated years in the past. “The French team’s right in front of us. [Reese] just walks up and goes, ‘Don’t mess up,’ and walks off.”