TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

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1 TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE > Hobie Billingsley (left) and James Doc Counsilman (below right) led Indiana to six NCAA Championships and 23 Big Ten Championships during their 30 years together at Indiana. Both coaches are enshrined in the IU Hall of Fame. > Ben Hesen became the first IU swimmer to win an individual national title since 1976 with a victory in the 100 backstroke at the 2008 NCAA Championships. 8 08/09 INDIANA hoosiers

2 TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE > Above (L to R): Jerry Miki, Lew Cook, John Parks and Les Nakamura all earned All-America honors for the Hoosiers in the late 1950s. > Left: Jim Montgomery, featured on the cover of Swimming World in 1975, was a six-time NCAA Champion and won three gold medals at the 1976 Olympics. > Below: Indiana won its 22nd Big Ten title in /09 INDIANA hoosiers 9

3 TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE > During its run of six consecutive NCAA Championships, Indiana featured 35 individual national champions, including Mark Spitz (left) and Gary Hall (right), and two relay champions. At present time, no collegiate program in Division I history has won more consecutive titles than the Hoosiers string of six consecutive victories. > Individually, IU has produced 80 swimming and diving national champions, 198 Big Ten swimming champions, 30 individual conference diving titles, and 45 relay titles at the Big Ten Championships. The 80 national champions ranks third among Big Ten schools, while the Big Ten diving, relay and individual swimming crowns all rank second /09 INDIANA hoosiers

4 NCAA CHAMPIONS 1968 > The Hoosiers scored 346 points to take home their first national title. > Charles Hickcox was a three-time winner in the 200 IM, 100 back and 200 back. > Bill Utley won a national title in the 400 IM > Indiana took its second-straight NCAA crown with 427 points. > The 400 medley relay team of Charles Hickcox, Donald McKenzie, Steve Borowski and Bryan Bateman took home the title. > Mark Spitz recorded three of his eight NCAA individual titles with wins in the 200 free, 500 free and 100 fly. 08/09 INDIANA hoosiers 11

5 NCAA CHAMPIONS 1970 > Larry Barbiere (100 back), Gary Hall (400 IM), and Mark Spitz (100 fly) took home individual swimming titles. > Jim Henry was NCAA Champion in the onemeter and three-meter diving events. > It was Henry s thirdstraight NCAA title in the one-meter. > The team earned a total of 46 All-America citations > Gary Hall led Indiana s winning effort with NCAA title performances in the 200 IM, 400 IM and 200 back. > In 1971, a writer for Sports Illustrated said A good case can be made for the 1971 Indiana swimming team being the best college team ever in any sport /09 INDIANA hoosiers

6 NCAA CHAMPIONS 1972 > Indiana s 390 points gave the squad its fifth-consecutive NCAA Championship. > The team recorded a school-record 48 All- America citations. > Gary Hall repeated as champion in the 200 IM and 400 IM. > John Kinsella (500 free, 1,650 free) and Mark Spitz (100 fly, 200 fly) were also double winners > The Hoosiers set an NCAA swimming and diving record with their sixth-consecutive national title. > John Kinsella repeated as NCAA Champion in the 500 free and 1,650 free. > Kinsella was also part of the NCAA Champion 800 free relay, along with Gary Conelly, Frederick Tyler and Gary Hall. 08/09 INDIANA hoosiers 13

7 JAMES DOC COUNSILMAN James Doc Counsilman was arguably the greatest swimming coach ever and for good reason. Doc, as he was referred to for his doctorate s degree in physiology from the University of Iowa, led the Hoosiers to six straight NCAA Championships from The Counsilman-led Hoosiers won 23 Big Ten titles during his 33-year tenure, including 20 straight championships from and three more from Counsilman s career record at Indiana is unmatched in any sport. In his 33 years, he went , including 18 undefeated seasons, 12 of which came in a row from Sixty of Counsilman s swimmers went on to be Olympians, including arguably the best swimmer in U.S. history, Mark Spitz. Counsilman also coached 29 individual NCAA Champions in 49 events and 10 national championship relays. Doc s success went beyond Indiana University as well. He coached the 1964 and 1976 Olympic teams. During those Olympics, U.S. swimmers captured 48 medals (17 gold, 18 silver, 13 bronze), including five gold medal relays. He was inducted into the International Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in He was President of the American Swimming Coaches Association as well as two-time National Coach of the Year in 1969 and He also received a Certificate of Merit by FINA, the international swimming federation, in Under Counsilman, six-times an Indiana swimmer was named World Swimmer of the Year. Counsilman took a mediocre swim program and transformed it into one of the greatest dynasties in collegiate sports. Doc took the sport of swimming to new levels with his research and contributions that are still used by today s athletes. Counsilman s book, The Science of Swimming, has been published in more than 20 languages. The book is considered the Bible of competitive swimming. Doc s innovative coaching style allowed him to build a dynasty that not only won six national championships, but finished in the top five at the NCAA Championships on 17 occasions. Counsilman based his coaching style on Maslow s hierarchy of needs theory. We all need love and affection; we need to feel a part of a group, Counsilman said. We all have the need to express our creativity, and we have a need for recognition. Of course if a young man is very successful, he may require a little head shrinking. But I would never strip a young man of his dignity. He based his disciplinary system on peer presence, a correlation in which the supervisors of the team are the captains. Counsilman provided his swimmers freedom to be themselves within the disciplinary system. Doc s coaching style was self-admittedly mild-mannered. The Counsilman stamp is still on the Hoosier program today both in the Counsilman/Billingsley Aquatic Center and through the coaching techniques and philosophies that current Indiana head coach Ray Looze uses. Counsilman oversaw the development of the aquatic center that was completed in He was the greatest swimming coach ever and no one would argue that point, Looze said. We need to show our alumni, our swimmers, our recruits and everyone involved with this program that this is where the greatest swimming coach ever was. I am really interested in history, and I have studied what Doc did. As much as things change, they stay the same, so I look at what he did and try to use that in what I do. Counsilman pioneered the use of underwater photography in analyzing stroke mechanics in In 1949, he developed a protocol for the use of weight training in the conditioning of competitive swimmers and used interval training for those swimmers as well. The use of interval training led to the invention of the pace clock that permitted application of interval training routines specifically for competitive swimming. In 1969, Counsilman used underwater photographic analysis to show the curvilinear pulling patterns of swimming strokes and the role of lift (Bernoulli effect) in the propulsion produced by these curved line motions. He also introduced isokinetic resistance exercises in 1969 for strength training in competitive swimmers. Counsilman introduced semi-accommodating, or biokinetic resistance training apparatus for specialized training of competitive swimmers in Two years later, he used underwater photographic analysis to show the importance of hand-speed acceleration. During his career, Counsilman published some 120 articles. Along with The Science of Swimming, Counsilman also wrote The Complete Book of Swimming in 1977, Competitive Swimming Manual for Swimmers and Coaches in 1977 and The New Science of Swimming in 1994 (with Brian E. Counsilman). Competitive Swimming Manual for Swimmers and Coaches featured an underwater action series of Mark Spitz, Gary Hall, Jenny Turral, Kornelia Ender and many more of the greatest swimmers from the 1970 s. The book remains the finest collection of photographic records done on the stroke mechanics of the world s greatest swimmers. At the age of 58, Counsilman became the oldest man to swim the English Channel. Doc attended Ohio State for his bachelor s degree. He attended OSU on a swim scholarship and won a national championship in the butterfly-breaststroke. In March of 1943, Counsilman held the world s best time in the event. He was drafted into the Army Air Force that year and became a B-24 bomber pilot in the European Theater. He earned a distinguished combat record during his time in World War II. Counsilman passed away on Jan. 4, 2004 after battling Parkinson s Disease /09 INDIANA hoosiers

8 HOBIE BILLINGSLEY Hobie Billingsley carried the swimming tradition over to diving throughout his 30-year stint by coaching 15 NCAA Champions and 23 Big Ten champions. He built Indiana diving from the ground floor as the first-ever coach of the program. With Billingsley s guidance, IU divers aided the Hoosiers to six NCAA championships (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973). He was honored as the first recipient of the NCAA Coach of the Year award. The Hoosiers won 20 consecutive Big Ten Championships from , and 23 titles overall. In addition to his collegiate accomplishments, Billingsley also led 115 divers to U.S. Diving national championships and was named U.S. Diving Coach of the Year nine different times including a stretch of seven consecutive ( ). Billingsley also coached the 1968 and 1972 U.S. Olympic teams to three Olympic and four Pan American gold medals. He also coached on an international stage with the 1976 and 1980 Austrian teams as well as the 1980 Danish teams. Billingsley was elected to the National Swimming Hall of Fame in Billingsley started his diving career by winning the Pennsylvania High School State Diving Championship. He then attended Ohio State, where he was an impact performer as a freshman, placing first in the Big Ten low board and NCAA one-meter and three-meter events. He went on to become a four-year All-American at Ohio State. Billingsley would go on to coach three gold and three bronze medal divers in the Olympic Games. In 1992 and 1996, Billingsley would serve in the Olympic Games in another fashion, as a diving judge. At the opening ceremony in 1996, Billingsley was given the honor out of all the judges at the games of reading the Judge s Oath shortly after the opening flame was lit. Billingsley, along with Ohio State teammate and 1948 Olympic springboard champion Bruce Harlan, began his professional career by performing diving shows at country clubs throughout the nation. Billingsley would then get into coaching, stopping at various schools all over the United States. He was a physical education teacher and swimming and diving coach at San Leandro High School in California and Allen Park High School in Michigan. He went on to coach at the collegiate level at Kenyon College and Ohio University. During his career, he formed the World Diving Coaches Association as well as the Professional Diving Coaches Association. He finished his career by being named the recipient of the Sammy Lee award, which is given to the person who has given the most to diving throughout the world. Over his 30-year coaching career at Indiana, Billingsley coached 15 NCAA individual champions, 23 Big Ten individual champions (16 men, seven women), 10 Olympians, two Olympic bronze medalists and one Olympic gold medalist. Over a stretch from , the Indiana diving program dominated not only the Big Ten scene, but the national scene as well. Richard Gilbert started the trend in 1964 by winning his first NCAA championship on the one-meter springboard. He also captured both the one-meter and threemeter titles in Big Ten action. In 1965, Gilbert would again capture the one-meter and three-meter crowns at the Big Ten Championships. Ken Sitzberger captured a total of seven NCAA championships from , winning both the one-meter and three-meter in 1965 and 1967 and the one-meter in At the Big Ten level, Sitzberger swept the onemeter and three-meter competitions in 1966 and In all, Billingsley s divers earned 101 All-America awards (85 men and 16 women) during his tenure at Indiana. In 1968, the program produced nine All-Americans, including five on the onemeter and four on the three-meter. In 1969, the program swept the top spots on the one-meter and three-meter. Indiana diving was well represented from at the Olympic Games. In all, 10 Billingsley divers competed in five different Olympic Games with the United States, Mexico, Canada and Austria. Sitzberger won the gold medal in the springboard event at the 1964 Games in Tokyo. Young and Henry each captured bronze medals in 1968 in Mexico City. Young won bronze on the springboard and Henry won bronze on the platform. Billingsley also brought Mark Lenzi to Indiana. Lenzi would go on to win two NCAA titles in 1989 and At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Lenzi captured the gold medal in the three-meter springboard event. On the women s side, Billingsley had five divers earn Olympic selections. Leslie Bush came away with the gold medal on the platform at the 1964 Games in Tokyo. Cynthia Potter won a bronze medal on the three-meter at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Amy McGrath and Lona Foss each captured national titles at the AIAW Championships. McGrath won the one-meter in 1980 and Foss did the same in The two earned a total of 11 All-America honors between them during their Hoosier careers. Billingsley was active in the organizational side of diving, as well. In 1967, he organized the World Diving Coaches Association. Three years later, he established the American Diving Coaches Association. Also an accomplished author, Billingsley wrote Diving Illustrated, a text for coaches and divers printed by Ronald Sports Library, in For 14 years during his career, Billingsley toured the U.S., Bermuda, Canada and the Far East during the summer with his own diving show. He was a renowned clown diver and is still one of the top experts in the field. He retired from clown diving and shows in /09 INDIANA hoosiers 15