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A former four-year letterwinner on the Greyhound swimming and diving team, Brian Loeffler begins his 15th season at Loyola and his 14th as the head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving teams.
During his tenure on the Evergreen campus, Loeffler has led the women's team to four Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles from 1992 to 1996. In fact, the women's team has never finished less than third in the conference under Loeffler's guidance.
Loeffler has led the men's team to a conference title during the 1995 season and has helped the men's team finish in the top four teams of the conference in 12 of his 14 years.
In the last 14 years, Loeffler has helped his teams break all 19 school women's swimming records and 18 of 19 men's school records. He has coached four MAAC Most Outstanding Male Swimmers, four MAAC Most Outstanding Female Swimmers and one MAAC Most Outstanding Female Diver during his career. He has been honored as MAAC Coach of the Year twice, including last season, when he led the women to a third-place finish in the conference.
During his swimming career at Loyola, Loeffler competed in the backstroke, butterfly and individual medley events. He graduated from the Evergreen campus in 1991 as the school-record holder in several events, including the 400-yard and 400-meter medley relays. Loeffler was also a member of 200-meter medley relay teams which recorded eight of the top 10 times in school history.
A 1991 graduate of Loyola, Loeffler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management Information Systems before earning his MBA in 1994. He is a longtime Baltimore native who graduated from Calvert Hall College High School in 1987.
Loeffler and his wife, Sarah, reside in Baltimore with their sons, Sam and Tim, and newborn daughter Lucy.