The 2023 Golden Goggle Awards are set to take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 19, 2023. With the voting deadline of October 15 quickly approaching, here is the breakdown of the nominees for this year's Coach of the Year award:
 Ron Aitken
At the helm of this year’s open water team, Aitken saw one of his Sandpipers of Nevada athletes, Katie Grimes, win a bronze medal in the women’s 10k and become the first American to qualify for Paris 2024. Mariah Denigan added another top-10 finish with her eighth-place performance, earning her an automatic qualification to the 2024 World Aquatics Open Water Championships. In the pool, Grimes added a silver in the women’s 400m individual medley and fellow Sandpiper Bella Sims earned two medals.
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 Bob Bowman
World Championships men’s team head coach Bob Bowman landed five Sun Devil swimmers on this year’s world championships squad, who won a combined seven medals. Regan Smith secured five total medals and an American record. Fellow Sun Devils Olivia Smoliga and Ryan Held added medals in the 4x100m freestyle relays.
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 Todd DeSorbo
DeSorbo’s four Virginia swimmers on this year’s World Championships team accounted for one world champion in Kate Douglass, as well as 10 combined medals in Japan. Douglass also won the most medals of any swimmer with six.
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 Dave Durden
Durden’s six California athletes won 20 medals this year in Fukuoka, including individual gold medals for Hunter Armstrong and Ryan Murphy. His athletes represented three-fourths of the men’s 4x100m medley relay (Murphy, Dare Rose and Jack Alexy) that set a championship record in the event on their way to a gold-medal.
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 Anthony Nesty
The powerhouse that is the University of Florida swimming continued their winning ways in Japan with Katie Ledecky, Bobby Finke, Bella Sims, Kieran Smith, Jake Mithcell and Brennan Gravley bringing home a combined 10 medals for the United States.
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*Please cast your vote by October 15 at 11:59 p.m. MT.
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