Andrew Grevers completed his fifth full season at the helm of the Mizzou Swimming and Diving programs in 2023-24.
In his fifth season with the Tigers, Grevers oversaw a men's team that finished 27th at NCAAs, and had five athletes garner All-America honors. More specifically, the 200 medley relay team featuring Grant Bochenski, Ty Spillane, Daniel Wilson and Frederik Rindshøj claimed second-team All-American status following their time of 1:23.29 at the national championship. Bochenski also broke the 100 back school record, a 44.96 during prelims at the SEC championship. Collier Dyer also earned second-team All-American status by finishing 10th in the 1M dive. Overall, Missouri sent 11 athletes to the NCAA Championship meets.
During his fourth campaign leading both squads, the men's team earned 17th place at the NCAA Championships. Graduate student Jack Dahlgren earned First Team All-America accolades in two events, while four other men's swimmers earned All-America honorable mention honors in various individual events. Three women's swimmers also earned individual berths to the NCAA Championships. All of Mizzou's men's relays had top-20 finishes at the championships, and four women's relays qualified for the national event. The two teams broke a total of six school records in the pool during the campaign, two of which while at NCAA's.
During his third season leading both Mizzou programs, the men's and women's teams both claimed 25th place finishes at the NCAA Championships, where the Tigers garnered two First Team All-America and six All-America Honorable Mention accolades. Mizzou claimed two podium finishes at the SEC Championships. The Tigers also broke three school records during the 2021-22 campaign.Â
In his second season leading the Tigers, Grevers led the men’s and women’s programs to 16th and 18th place team finishes, respectively, at the 2020-21 NCAA Championships. The Mizzou programs had six individuals and five relays claim All-America honors. At the 2021 SEC Championships, the men’s and women’s teams claimed sixth and seventh place finishes, respectively. Between the two programs, the Tigers set five school records in the 2020-21 season.
In his first full year as the program's leader in 2019-20, Grevers made the program his own with ZouStyle, a commitment to a winning process. Under his direction last year, the men's and women's programs earned finishes of fifth and eighth, respectively, at the 2020 SEC Championships,where sophomore Danny Kovac claimed the SEC men's 100 fly title to become only the second men's Mizzou swimmer to win an SEC crown. A total of 13 total individual Tigers qualified for the eventually canceled 2020 NCAA Championships and 18 earned CSCAA All-America honors. Over the campaign, Mizzou went a combined 15-2 (8-0 men and 7-2 women) in the regular season, with both programs ranked in the TYR/CSCAA Divsion I polls for most of the year.
Grevers, who served as the interim head coach during the 2018-19 season, had the interim tag removed from his title on May 24, 2019.
Mizzou flourished under Grevers’ direction after Sterk named him as the program’s interim head coach in late October, 2018. The Tiger men’s team finished second at the 2019 Southeastern Conference Championships, easily surpassing the program’s previous best SEC placement of fifth. The 2018-19 Tigers produced the first men’s conference relay title in team history and senior Mikel Schreuders took home Mizzou’s first-ever SEC men’s swimming title. The women’s program placed seventh at the league meet, as seven female Tigers earned 2018-19 All-SEC honors.
At the 2019 NCAA Championships, the Mizzou men tied for 11th and the women finished 22nd in the team standings. A total of 20 Tigers, 13 men and seven women, claimed All-America honors at the Championships, highlighted by individual first-team honors by Schreuders and senior Jordan O’Brien. The men also scored in all five relays for only the third time in program history.
Grevers helped elevate the Mizzou programs into national powers since his arrival in Columbia as an assistant coach in 2010. He was promoted to associate head coach ahead of the 2017-18 season. The top seven team finishes for both Mizzou men’s and women’s programs have come over the last nine seasons, including six Top 15 NCAA placements for the women’s team and five for the men’s program.
Serving as Mizzou's lead sprint coach, Grevers helped 22-time All-American Michael Chadwick (2013-17) emerge as one of the nation's top sprinters and the most decorated swimmer in program history. Chadwick concluded his collegiate career with a runner-up finish in the 100 freestyle at the 2017 NCAA Championships, where he became only the fourth swimmer in history to go under 41 seconds in the event.
Andrew Sansoucie (2013-17) and Annie Ochitwa (2017-19) also thrived under Grevers’ guidance. Sansoucie, a 14-time All-American, dropped more than three seconds off his 100 butterfly time during his Tiger career and still holds Mizzou’s school record in the event. Grevers helped Ochitwa regain peak form after she transferred into the program prior to the 2017-18 season as a junior. The sprinter took down Missouri’s 100 free record in the first two months of her Tiger career, and earned nine All-America honors in her two seasons in Columbia, including a top eight finish in the 100 butterfly at the 2018 NCAA Championships.
Prior to Mizzou, Grevers served three years as a volunteer coach for both men’s and women’s swimming at Northwestern, where he helped coach several NCAA champions and national record holders. He also assisted as the men’s team which placed sixth at the 2007 NCAA Championship. Grevers also served as head coach of Wildcat Aquatics (Evanston, Ill.) from 2005-10, where the team produced three national records and 27 state records under his watch.
Grevers hails from a family of swimmers. He is the older brother of four-time Olympic gold medalist Matt Grevers, while his mother, Anja, was a swimming coach, and his sister, Carolyn, is the current head coach of Lake Forest High School (Ill.) and Scout Aquatics.
He and his wife, Harriet, have two sons, Atticus and Otto.
