Colonel Aquatics

Tim Cahill, long-time coach of the Model Laboratory School, Arlington and the Colonel Aquatic swimming teams, has been selected by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association as a 2010 National Coach of the Year finalist.  The Association cited Cahill’s coaching longevity, record, championships, previous awards and service to the coaching profession and student-athletes.  Cahill, who has coached the Model and Arlington teams the past 30 years and Colonel Aquatics for the past 10 years, will be recognized along with honorees from 19 other sports at the Association’s national awards banquet on June 23 in Sioux Falls, S.D.  National awards are nothing new for Cahill, who two years ago received the Outstanding Service Award from the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association.  In addition to the tremendous success his Model teams have enjoyed at the regional and state level, he has coached dozens of high school individual state champions, and many of his swimmers have gone on to compete successfully at the collegiate and national levels and competed in four Olympic Trials.  Cahill, also an instructor in EKU’s Department of Health Promotion and Administration, has been recognized on many other occasions for coaching excellence and for his service to the sport. In 1999, he received the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Association’s Section 2 Distinguished Service Award for Boys Swimming and Diving. The section includes seven states and the District of Columbia.  Throughout his coaching career, he also has remained active with the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, holding numerous offices.