Sonoran Hot Reads: Former Arizona swim coach Frank Busch retires from USA Swimming

The ex-Wildcats coach is calling it a career

In 2011, Frank Busch stepped down as the head swimming and diving coach at The University of Arizona to take over as the Director of USA Swimming’s National Team. Busch and USA Swimming announced on Tuesday that he will retire from that position on September 1st of this year. U of A won both the men’s and women’s National Championships in 2008 under Busch.

“In my coaching career I believed that every athlete’s personal growth was as important as their success in the pool, and that’s an underlying current of everyone that works in the National Team division,” Busch said in a statement. “Working with the best in the world is a dream come true for anyone, and I have certainly lived that dream. It’s been an incredible team effort with everyone that works at USA Swimming. They all believe in achievement and they all work hard toward it.”

He was at Arizona from 1989-2011

- Women’s golf finished T-8 out of 15 as a team, but Haley Moore was 5th on the individual leaderboard

- Men’s golf gets a tournament started in Hawaii on Wednesday

- Men’s tennis improved to 5-2 on the season after a comeback win against GCU

- Women’s tennis fell to 6-1 after dropping a match to UC Santa Barbara over the weekend

- Women’s indoor track is now ranked 21st in the nation thanks in large part to Sage Watson having an incredible season

- Gymnastics is now ranked 25th

Basketball

- Lauri Markkanen was the topic of discussion here on Tuesday. We discussed if his recent struggles should be a source of concern, and Sean Miller says it’s not due to a lack of confidence. Zach Harper broke down some of Markkanen’s strengths and weaknesses as we get closer to the NBA Draft

- Ryan has the bench players covered in this notebook he put together

- What did you think of Matt’s latest Bracketology?

D.Will has that West Coast style@KingJames gives kudos to the left coast for Derrick Williams style of play#DefendTheLand http://pic.twitter.com/ulSk7C7WRJ

— FOX Sports Ohio (@FOXSportsOH) February 15, 2017

Football

- You know how Arizona has two assistant coach jobs open? Well, it seems RichRod is in Costa Rica playing basketball with a few coaches that are better than him at football coaching

- The team did add Southern Utah to the 2018 schedule though

Ladies. Just in time for Valentine's Day. Check out my new hit single "Neverland". https://t.co/dRD1WPmgpA

— Sammy Morrison (@samurai_2727) February 14, 2017

Baseball

- Right now, Terry Francona is the best manager in Major League Baseball

- Here’s my season previews for the outfield and infield. There’s no pitcher one coming because there’s really no point

- Cal Stevenson could pitch though, but probably not, as he looks to make up for Nevada missing the 2015 postseason

Softball

- Katiyana Mauga was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week after a four home run weekend

Tucson news

- There was a fatal crash on Tangerine near Dove Mountain on Tuesday night

- The big Ina construction project has started, so here’s how to avoid it the best you can

- Here’s an interesting story on prisoners working with horses and learning about themselves in the process

- Shots were fired at the Laos Transit Center near Irvington and 6th

- Dave and Busters is coming to Tucson Marketplace at Park and I-10

http://pic.twitter.com/CcLABlTQKN

— Tucson AZ (@VisitTucsonAZ) February 14, 2017

from Arizona Desert Swarm - All Posts http://ift.tt/2kxyoAC
via IFTTT