Antiguo Alumno Nombrado Entrenador de Natación de Colgate University

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Puerto Rican Olympic swimmer Fernando Canales has been named to head Colgate University’s swimming program.
Canales, who represented Puerto Rico on three Olympic teams (1976, ’80, ’84), was hired as the head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at the NCAA Division I program. He was inducted into the Puerto Rico National Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

Canales is moving to the New York private university from his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he served two stints as an assistant coach from 1982-87 and 2006-08, before serving as the development officer for athletics.

As an athlete, Canales was a four-year All-American at Michigan, where he graduated with a degree in education and exercise physiology in 1982. During his career, he won 12 Big Ten Championship titles, including four straight 100-yard freestyle titles.
From 2006-08, Canales served as the head assistant coach at Michigan under assistant Olympic coach Bob Bowman. During that time Canales helped three swimmers capture back-to-back NCAA national championships along with guiding the team to the 2008 Big Ten title.

Before returning to Michigan, Canales served as the head coach of the city of Keller, Texas swim team for two years, and the city of Richardson, Texas swim team from 1992-2005.

From 1990-92, Canales was the head coach of swimming, diving and water polo at the University of California-Santa Cruz.