Volunteer Assistant Lee Hutchens

01/01/00

WILLIAMSBURG - The freestyle events will see a marked improvement this year with the addition of Lee Hutchens to the Tribe coaching staff. Hutchens joins W&M after six years of coaching elite-level club teams in North Carolina.

Most recently, Hutchens seved as the assistant coach and site coordinator for New Wave Swim Team in Raleigh, North Carolina for three years. During his time there, he coached numerous athletes to individual and relay National Top-16 performances, and multiple Junior Nationals qualifications, sectional championships, and state championships. Prior to his time with New Wave, Hutchens was the head age-group coach for the Greenville Swim Club in Greenville, North Carolina, from 2000 to 2003.

Hutchens began his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater, East Carolina, from 1998-99. While with the Pirates, he had primary responsibility for the freestyle athletes. His career as a coach has been marked with distinction, with three selections to the North Carolina Zone coaching staff, and three invitations to join the staff at the USA Swimming Select Camp.

Hutchens was captain of the swimming team as a senior at East Carolina, and graduated with a BA in pyschology in 1998. He holds a Level 3 coaching certification from the American Swimming Coaches Association. He was married in the summer of 2006 to former University of North Carolina swimmer Megan Chenier, and resides with his wife in Williamsburg.