Jim Steen
James Steen served as a swim coach at Kenyon College from 1976 to 2012, where he became the first coach in NCAA collegiate history to have his men's and women's teams win a combined 50 Division III NCAA championships. Education, early swimming Malabar High School In 1966, as Captain of the Malabar High School Swim Team in Mansfield, Ohio, he set records in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle of 23.4 and 1:01.7. Swimming for Malabar in the same year, he also set the Cardinal Conference swimming record of 2:17.2 in the 200-yard individual medley. In 1965-66, showing stroke diversity, he held records in the 100 free, 100 back and 100 fly in the Greater Mansfield Aquatic Conference. While at Malabar, Steen swam for Coach Frank Bartholow. Kent State University Steen was a graduate of Kent State University, where he received All Mid-American Honors for three successive years, primarily in his conference swimming sprint events and back stroke. Kent State, in Kent, Ohio, was seventy-five miles northeast of Mansfield, where Steen went to high school. In the Mid-American Conference Championships in December 1968, he swam on a 400-yard medley relay team that set a conference record, as well as on a winning 4-member conference record-setting back stroke team that swam a 1:43.7. In the Mid-American Conference Relay Championships in Oxford in December, 1969, he swam in a 200-yard backstroke relay that won first place, and set a new conference record time of 1:41.4, beating his prior record. Majoring in political science, he made dean's list at Kent State in the fall of 1969. After graduating in 1971, he received a master's in education from Miami of Ohio University. Coaching swimming at Kenyon Around 1975, while working as an assistant coach as a graduate student at Miami University, Steen applied for a Kenyon position as student housing director. When he learned that Kenyon's head swimming coach Dick Sloan had left to work for Ohio State, he withdrew his application to be housing director, and applied as the new swimming coach. NCAA championships, All-Americans Steen's teams have won more NCAA championships than any other team in any division or any sport. Under his tenure, the Kenyon Lords Men's Swimming Team won 31 consecutive NCAA Division III championships, the first having been in 1980. Twenty-nine (29) NCAA Men's Championships are officially credited to Steen as head coach, as he was not credited in two years when he was taking sabbaticals from Kenyon, including 1968. Kenyon's women's swim team have won 17 consecutive (23 nonconsecutive) titles beginning 1984, of which 21 are officially credited to Steen. In over 30 years at Kenyon, Steen has developed over 150 NCAA champions and over 300 All-Americans. NCAC Conference performance Stern's championship seasons have been just as consistent on the conference level. Since the 1984-85 season, when Kenyon joined the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), the Kenyon's men's and women's swimming and diving teams have taken 23 conference NCAC championships. Honors Steen's honors in the swimming community are extensive,