Eddie Reese

Eddie Reese

Reese at 68 in May, 2010
Current position
Title	Head Coach
Team	Texas
Conference	Big 12
Biographical details
Born	(1941-07-23) July 23, 1941 (age 83) Daytona Beach, Florida
Playing career
1961–1963	Florida
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1967–1972	Florida (Asst.)
1973–1978	Auburn
1978–2024	Texas
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
SEC Championships (44)[1] NCAA Championships (1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021)
Awards
CSCAA Coach of the Year University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame Longhorn Hall of Honor International Swimming Hall of Fame

Edwin Charles Reese (born July 23, 1941) is a Hall of Fame American college and Olympic swimming coach, and a former college swimmer for the University of Florida. Reese won 15 NCAA team championships as the head coach of the University of Texas at Austin men's swimming and diving team from 1978 until retiring in 2024, having previously served as the men's head coach at Auburn University from 1973–1978.

He served with the United States' Olympic Swimming Team in 2004 and 2008, and was an assistant coach at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the winningest swim coach in history and is the only collegiate swim coach to win NCAA national team titles in five separate decades. He is widely regarded by many swimming historians as the greatest swim coach in history.