By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Texas A&M head diving coach Jay Lerew has retired, according to a press release from the university on Tuesday afternoon.
That release comes after several current and former student-athletes told SwimSwam that Lerew was ‘fired’ earlier in the day. A spokesperson for the school declined to address the discrepancy in framing for his departure.
Lerew is 73.
He will be succeeded in leading the program by his former assistant Jeff Bro, who has spent the last three years working under Lerew. Bro and Lerew were the sole carryovers on the staff of head coach Blaire Anderson, who just completed her second season in charge of the newly-combined program.
“We want to thank Jay Lerew for his many years of success and dedication to Texas A&M and its swimming & diving program,” Anderson said. “Under his direction, the diving program has produced multiple NCAA Champions, including the school’s first platform champion last weekend, as well as dozens of All-Americans and conference champions. His influence and impact on the swimming & diving program, as well as collegiate diving in general, cannot be overstated.”
Anderson added, “We’re extremely excited to promote Coach Bro to lead our program. This decision reflects our confidence in his leadership and experience, and our firm commitment to maintaining a strong and competitive diving program. We are fully invested in its future and in continuing to compete at a national level.”
Bro, a former USA Diving National Coach of the Year, developed multiple Junior World medalists and USA National Champions while leading the G.C. Diving Club in Southlake, Texas to four team national championships.
His pupils there include Hailey Hernandez, who qualified for the U.S. team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 prior to attending the University of Texas. Bro accompanied Hernandez to those Games as a member of the Olympic coaching staff.
Lerew’s Resume
Lerew joined the A&M staff in 2009, just his second collegiate gig after leading the Colorado State diving program from 1979-1981. In between, he worked mostly in club diving, with programs like Team Orlando in Florida, Moss Farm Diving in Georgia, and the Schroeder YMCA in Wisconsin.
Other NCAA Champion divers on his resume include Jaele Patrick, who won 3-meter in 2012, and Kurtis Matthews, who won 1-meter and 3-meter in 2022. He is a seven-time conference Diving Coach of the Year between the Big 12 and SEC and won the CSCAA National Diving Coach of the Year in both 2012 and 2022.
Other Olympians he coached while at A&M include Eric Sehn (Canada) and Grant Nel (Australia).
With Team Orlando, he coached 10 individual senior national title winners in 11 years.
Lerew served as the U.S. Olympic head diving coach at the 2000 Olympic Games.
His wife Wendy Lerew was an All-American diver at Florida State and a two-time Canadian Olympian on platform.
According to data compiled by one SwimSwam reader, Texas A&M’s diving program has scored the 5th most points of any program in the country between 2010 and 2026.
Men’s Top Scoring Diving Programs, 2010-2026 NCAA Championship Meets
Indiana: 664 Texas: 368 Purdue: 362 Texas A&M: 319Women’s Top Scoring Diving Programs, 2010-2026 NCAA Championship Meets
Minnesota: 442 points Texas: 404.5 points Purdue: 289 points Indiana: 258 points Miami (FL): 243.5 points Texas A&M: 199 pointsIn that period, A&M had 18 unique divers score at least one point at the NCAA Championships out of 22 unique qualifiers. That ranks only behind Purdue (28), Texas (27), and Indiana (21).
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