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Cal Bentz, Head Coach
Coach Bentz's more than 50 years of
coaching experience includes 24 years as Head Coach of Swimming and Diving
at the University
of Nebraska and 22 years
as a high school coach, club coach and teacher. His collegiate men’s
teams produced more than 100 NCAA All Americans and the women’s
program produced more than 80 NCAA All Americans. Under Coach Bentz, Nebraska
teams won 16 men’s conference titles and 5 women’s conference
titles in swimming and diving. More than 20 Olympians from all over the
world competed for Nebraska
under coach Bentz.
During his tenure at Omaha Westside
High School, Coach Bentz’ boys and girls teams won 16 state
championship titles. In 1976 the Omaha World Herald named Coach Bentz “ Nebraska High
School Coach of the Year”. He was a long time member and past
president of the Nebraska High School Coaches’ Association and in
1997 was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame. In
2005 he was inducted into the Westside
High School’s
Coaches’ Night of Distinction.
Coach Bentz was a four year
letterman in swimming, team captain his junior and senior years and
graduated from the University
of Nebraska in 1955.
While coaching at Nebraska
he was honored as an Alumnus of the year and in 1992 he was presented the
UNL Parents Association Recognition Award for Contributions to Students.
Coach Bentz has coached and
taught, provided competitive swimming camps and clinics in Nebraska and the Midwest
for 51 years. He has worked extensively in fundamental swimming skill
development, dry-land and core body strength development and seasonal,
periodic and daily workout design. He has also served as a volunteer coach
for the Kearney, Nebraska High School Swimming Team for
the past 5 years.
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