Mark Gangloff - Men's Swimming and Diving Coach - University of Missouri Athletics

Mark Gangloff

Title:
Assistant Coach
Hometown:
Akron, Ohio
Year at Mizzou:
Seventh Season
Alma Mater:
Auburn, 2005
Email:
gangloffm@missouri.edu

Two-time Olympian and three-time world champion Mark Gangloff enters his sixth season as part of the Mizzou coaching staff. He was promoted to associate head coach following the 2016-17 season after six five years as an assistant coach.

Gangloff has been part of the most successful span in Mizzou swimming and diving history in his first five years with the programs. In his time in Columbia, the men have five top-16 NCAA finishes and the women have four top-14 finishes.

Most recently, both programs notched program-best NCAA finishes as the men placed eighth and the women 11th at the 2016 Championships. Fabian Schwingenschlogl won Mizzou’s first-ever individual NCAA title as he claimed top honors in the 100 breast. Additionally, six total swimmers claimed first team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships and Katharine Ross won Mizzou’s first SEC swimming title.

Before he arrived at Missouri, Gangloff spent the previous three yeas a volunteer assistant coach at Auburn, his alma mater. With the Tigers, he assisted with recruiting, stroke technique and race strategy and strength and condioning.

From 2007-2009, Gangloff coached at both Swim MAC Carolina Team Elite Swim MAC Carolina in Charlotte, N.C. With the programs, he helped recruit professional athletes, fundraising and program and training design and coaches athletes ages 10-18.

On the international stage, Gangloff made his first Olympic team in 2004, where he won a gold medal as part of the 400 medley relay team and narrowly missed an individual medal with a fourth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke. He again qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games and was part of the 400 medley relay that won the gold.

At the World Championships, Gangloff is a three-time gold medalist in the 400 medley relay, finished second in the 50 breaststroke in 2005, third in 2009 and sixth in 2011. He was a team captain on both the 2009 and 2011 teams.

Additionally, he participated in the Pan-American Games in 1999, 2003 and 2007, where he earned gold medals in the 400 medley relay in 2003 and 2007, gold in the 100 breaststroke in 2003 and a bronze in the 200 breaststroke in 1999.

At Auburn, Gangloff helped the Tigers to NCAA Championships in 2003 and 2004, four SEC titles and 12 All-America honors. Individually, he won SEC titles in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke and was part of the winning 200 and 400 medley relay teams in 2004.

A native of Akron, Ohio, Gangloff earned a degree in criminology from Auburn in 2005. He and his wife Ashley, a former national champion diver at Auburn, have three daughters, Annabelle, Hattie Rose and Kathryn.