By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Catholic University, an NCAA Division III University, has fired head coach Chris Paynter after he lead his team to the Landmark Conference Title, multiple sources have told SwimSwam.
The school’s athletics directors emailed the team saying that the decision was made after an internal matters review, and a team meeting was called for Tuesday evening, but no other information about the decision has been made available.
SwimSwam has reached out to Paynter for comment.
Paynter was with the program for only one season, where the men’s team won its 10th straight Landmark Conference Championship. The women’s team, meanwhile, repeated as the conference runners-up.
Paynter previously served at another Landmark Conference institution, spending three seasons leading the team at Wilkes University. In 2025, he led the Wilkes men’s program to its best dual meet record in program history, finishing at 8–2. The men’s team placed 6th at the 2024 Landmark Conference Championships. The Wilkes women’s program finished the 2024–25 season with a 3–6–1 record and placed 9th out of 10 teams at the Landmark Conference Championships.
Paynter swam collegiately at Division I Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is a two-time Big East Champion and a six-time All-Big East performer as a member of various relay teams. He helped lead the Wildcats to Big East titles in both 2017 and 2018 as a member of the 200 freestyle relays. Paynter contributed to those efforts by earning medals in the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays. As an individual competitor, he was a six-time medalist—earning two medals each in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, and 100 butterfly.
Paynter succeeded John Bodden, who served as Catholic’s head swimming coach and aquatics director. Bodden spent three years as head coach of Catholic University after one season as their graduate assistant. A native of George Town in the Cayman Islands, Bodden represented his home country at the 2019 Pan American Games. He returned to the Cayman Islands to serve as the head coach of the Stingray Swim Club.
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