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Coaching Staff
Peter Casares joined the Department of Athletics at Bates in the summer of 2007 as the head swimming and diving coach and aquatics director. Casares was swim coach and aquatics director at Wabash College from 2002 through the 2006-07 academic year and won the North Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year award in 2005. He holds the distinction of being one of only three coaches in NCAA history to win a national championship for both men and women in the same year, when as interim head coach at Kenyon College he guided the men's and women's teams to the 2002 national titles. A 1998 graduate of Gettysburg College, Casares was a two-time captain of the swimming team, a five-time All-American and the holder of eight school records upon graduation. Casares went on to earn a master's degree in sports psychology from Miami University in 2000, while he assistant-coached the Division I, nationally ranked swim team there. He went on to Kenyon, the dominant swim program in Division III, as an assistant and became the interim head coach for the 2001-02 season. Casares says Bates has "the perfect recipe" to create a nationally recognized program. "Bates College has always represented excellence to me," said Casares. "Joining this family, both professionally and personally, is a dream come true. I am honored to follow in Coach Mulholland's footsteps, and will continue to create an environment that will allow student athletes to reach their absolute potential, both in the pool and on campus." Diving Coach Mike Bartley Mike Bartley, an Olympic trials diver in 1964 and longtime high school coach, has directed the diving program since 1991. The 1999 New England and 2001 and 2009 NESCAC diving coach of the year, Bartley has developed several top divers at Bates, including seven-time men's All-America Andrew Hastings '02, six-time women's All-America Kara Seaton '05, and four-time All-America Kelsey Lamdin '09. Bartley won the U.S. Masters Platform Championship in 1987 and finished in second place in the 1989 World Masters Games in Denmark, and also successfully competed in other international meets in the Soviet Union, Japan, Canada and throughout the U.S. over a 40-plus year active diving career. Bartley also dived professionally with the "Big Splash Water Spectacular" in Hollywood Beach, Fla., in 1968. |
