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Women's Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- hamitchell@davidson.edu
- Phone:
- 2810
Mitchell enters her third year on the men’s and women’s swimming and diving coaching staff. She is charged with training the stroke group at Davidson. In her two years she has produced A-10 Champions in the 100 breaststroke and the 400 Medley Relay. She also helped the Wildcats set varsity records in the 100 breaststroke and 400 IM. She has played an integral role in the careers of two A-10 All-Academic Team recipients, a CoSIDA News Academic All-America District Team recipient, and a Google Cloud Academic All-America Team recipient.
Mitchell spent the 2017 summer as the head coach of the junior national swim team at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel. Under her guidance the team won 2 gold medals, 11 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals.
Prior coming to Davidson, Mitchell was primarily responsible for working with the endurance athletes at Army. Under her guidance the distance swimmers broke all of the individual distance academy records (500/1000/1650) for both men and women. In addition to breaking academy records, two endurance athletes qualified for and competed in the 2016 Open Water National Championships in Fort Meyers, Fla.
In Mitchell’s two years with the Black Knights, the squad finished as Patriot League Runner-up for both men and women, broke 21 Academy Records, and qualified two athletes for the 2016 Olympic Trials.
Prior to Army West Point, Mitchell helped coach the Kenyon College men's team to two NCAA National Championships in 2013 and 2014, while coaching the women's team to two runner-up finishes. She coached seven individual NCAA champions, 13 Scholar All-America recipients and six NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners over her three seasons. Mitchell helped the Ladies break seven NCAA records, 24 Kenyon Varsity Records and four Olympic Trial cuts.
Before her three-year stint at Kenyon, Mitchell returned to her alma mater, Ohio State University, as a volunteer assistant. In addition to coaching the Buckeyes' varsity team for the 2010-11 season, Mitchell was also the Platinum level head coach for the Ohio State Swim Club. She also served as an instructor at the Ohio State swim camp in 2009 and with the National Youth Sports Program in 2007-08.
Mitchell boasts many accomplishments from her four-year swim career as a Buckeye. She helped set varsity records in the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays. She was a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and was named an Academic All-Big Ten selection her final three seasons in Columbus. As a senior, Mitchell was named a captain for the 2009-10 season.
The records Mitchell set in the pool enabled her to qualify for USA Swimming's 2010 Senior Nationals. She was also selected to compete for Team USA at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2009, where she won four gold medals and one silver medal.
The Walled Lake, Mich., native received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Ohio State Fisher College of Business in June 2010 and a Master of Science in Recreation and Sport Science in August 2014.
