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Women's Swimming & Diving
Brammer, Chris
Chris Brammer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- chbrammer@davidson.edu
- Phone:
- 2811
Chris Brammer joined the Davidson family as an assistant coach to begin the 2009-10 season, after three successful years of graduate school and coaching at Indiana University.
Brammer, who was named Honorable Mention Assistant Coach of the Year by CollegeSwimming.com in 2011, has been a critical part of the Wildcats' recent success, including back-to-back CCSA championships (2010, 2011) for the Davidson men's team and back-to-back NCAA championship appearances (2010, 2011) for sprinter Lindsey Martin.
During his graduate work at Indiana, Brammer studied human performance under the direction of Dr. Joel Stager at the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming. Based on the teaching and coaching philosophy of the legendary Dr. James Counsilman, the Counsilman Center serves as a research center and resource for the swimming community.
Brammer played a pivotal role in research projects that included an analysis of the progression of elite and masters swim performance across time, measurement and identification of swimming power, the development of training devices and protocols specific to swim performance, the relationship between selected anthropometric dimensions and flutter kick performance, and recovery aides following endurance exercise. His Masters thesis, titled “Cutaneous Input and Motorneuron Excitability,” was in regard to the effect of shaving on swim performance.
“Chris’s education equips him with first-rate technical knowledge,” head swimming coach John Young said. “And his ability to address not only ‘what’ questions, but also ‘why’ questions will advance the effectiveness of training sessions and the intellectual engagement of our athletes. He’s a great fit for our student-athletes, and they’ll enjoy his expertise.”
In addition to his responsibilities as a graduate student, Brammer served as an assistant coach for local high school and middle school swim teams, and as co-head coach at the Counsilman Center Swim Team (CCST). In the spring of 2010, Brammer served as the first head coach of an age-group swim team in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Brammer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from Truman State University, where he was a four-year varsity letter winner and three-time academic All-American. Competitively, he competed at the NCAA Division II Championship three times, earning NCAA All-America honors twice and Honorable-Mention All-America honors five times as a butterfly specialist. He is a native of Omaha, Nebraska.
Brammer, who was named Honorable Mention Assistant Coach of the Year by CollegeSwimming.com in 2011, has been a critical part of the Wildcats' recent success, including back-to-back CCSA championships (2010, 2011) for the Davidson men's team and back-to-back NCAA championship appearances (2010, 2011) for sprinter Lindsey Martin.
During his graduate work at Indiana, Brammer studied human performance under the direction of Dr. Joel Stager at the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming. Based on the teaching and coaching philosophy of the legendary Dr. James Counsilman, the Counsilman Center serves as a research center and resource for the swimming community.
Brammer played a pivotal role in research projects that included an analysis of the progression of elite and masters swim performance across time, measurement and identification of swimming power, the development of training devices and protocols specific to swim performance, the relationship between selected anthropometric dimensions and flutter kick performance, and recovery aides following endurance exercise. His Masters thesis, titled “Cutaneous Input and Motorneuron Excitability,” was in regard to the effect of shaving on swim performance.
“Chris’s education equips him with first-rate technical knowledge,” head swimming coach John Young said. “And his ability to address not only ‘what’ questions, but also ‘why’ questions will advance the effectiveness of training sessions and the intellectual engagement of our athletes. He’s a great fit for our student-athletes, and they’ll enjoy his expertise.”
In addition to his responsibilities as a graduate student, Brammer served as an assistant coach for local high school and middle school swim teams, and as co-head coach at the Counsilman Center Swim Team (CCST). In the spring of 2010, Brammer served as the first head coach of an age-group swim team in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Brammer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from Truman State University, where he was a four-year varsity letter winner and three-time academic All-American. Competitively, he competed at the NCAA Division II Championship three times, earning NCAA All-America honors twice and Honorable-Mention All-America honors five times as a butterfly specialist. He is a native of Omaha, Nebraska.
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