Dave Durden

Dave Durden, University of California Berkeley head coach

Dave Durden is an American swimming coach.

Coaching Highlights

He has served as the head men's swimming coach at the University of California Berkeley since 2007.
He is the swimming coach of several Olympic and elite swimmers from around the world.
Since taking over the University of California Berkeley swimming program in 2007, Durden has coached 38 individual and 18 relay NCAA champions during his tenure where his swimmers have won six NCAA team titles (2011, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023) and have finished first or second nationally (2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024) for 14 consecutive seasons.
He served as the head coach for the 2020 US Olympic Men's Swimming Team and the assistant coach in 2016.
He was named Coach of the Meet at the 2016 US Olympic Swimming Trials.
In 2015, he served as head coach of the US Swimming team at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, his college swimmers won 11 medals, 8 gold, by Ryan Murphy, Anthony Ervin, Nathan Adrian, Josh Prenot, Tom Shields, and Jacob Pebley.

He has been named NCAA Coach of the Year seven times (2010. 2011. 2012. 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023).
He has earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors 12 times.

Beyond the collegiate ranks, Durden coaches Nathan Adrian, Anthony Ervin and Natalie Coughlin who account for 18 Olympic medals thus far in their careers.

3 NCAA team championships (2011, 2012, 2014)
2 NCAA runner up finishes (2010, 2013)
4-time NCAA Coach of the Year (2010. 2011. 2012. 2014)
5-time Pac-12 coach of the Year (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
30 NCAA titles (18 individual, 12 relay)
49 Pac-12 titles (32 Individual, 17 relay)
Produced 160 All-American swims (129 individual, 31 relay)
Mentored swimmers to three Olympic medals in 2012, including Nathan Adrian’s individual Olympic gold in the 100-meter freestyle in London
USA Swimming assistant coach for 2009 Duel in the Pool, 2010 Pan Pacific Games, 2011 World Championships, 2014 Pan Pacific Championships
Personal coach for the 2012 Olympic Games