By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
USA Swimming has finalized its coaching staff for the upcoming Short Course World Championships in Beijing.
After SwimSwam reported that DART Swimming’s Billy Doughty had been tabbed as the head coach of the American team earlier this month, USA Swimming announced Friday that Herbie Behm, Cory Chitwood, Steve Jungbluth, Noah Yanchulis and Margaret Zagrobelny will join him on staff as assistants.
The staff for Beijing features none of the coaches who served on the U.S. staff this past summer at the Pan Pacific Championships, though Behm and Yanchulis were assistants at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore.
Doughty is the primary coach of one member of the U.S. roster, Luca Urlando, while each of the assistants also have some of their swimmers on the squad.
Behm, the head coach at Arizona State University, qualified Adam Chaney, Grant House and Ilya Kharun to the team. Chitwood is currently an assistant at Indiana, which put an incredible eight swimmers on the squad: current Hoosiers Liberty Clark, Alex Shackell, Josh Bey, Noah Cakir and Owen McDonald, along with Indiana pros Anna Peplowski, Finn Brooks and Van Mathias. Zagrobelny is an assistant at Virginia, which landed six swimmers on the roster: current Cavaliers Claire Curzan and Maximus Williamson, along with pro group members Phoebe Bacon, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh and Gretchen Walsh. Jungbluth is Caeleb Dressel‘s head coach at the Sporting Jax Aquatic Club. Yanchulis, associate head coach at Cal, has Golden Bear swimmers Ryan Erisman and Rylee Erisman on the team along with Cal pro Jack Alexy. Gabriel Jett also qualified for the team but recently withdrew from the meet due to injury.For Doughty, this marks his first appointment as a U.S. head coach since the 2019 World Junior Championships, a meet that included several of the U.S. team members headed to Beijing, including Urlando, Alexy, Chaney, Curzan and G. Walsh.
“Billy brings years of international experience and a passion for leadership that will help our team navigate an exciting but busy competition,” said USA Swimming National Team Executive Director & Coach, Greg Meehan. “His communication skills and organizational abilities align with the direction of the National Team, and we are very fortunate to have Billy at the helm.”
The 2026 Short Course World Championships will run from Dec. 1-6 in Beijing, China.
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