Penn State Adds Kyle Walthall to Coaching Staff

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Penn State Adds Kyle Walthall to Coaching Staff

Kyle Walthall has been hired as an assistant coach for Penn State’s men’s and women’s swimming teams, the school announced Friday.

Walthall comes to Happy Valley from Ashland University, a Division II program in Ohio where he was the head coach for five seasons after two as an assistant coach. He helped qualify several swimmers to NCAAs there, leading the Eagles to a second-place men’s finish and a third-place women’s finish at the Great Midwest Athletic Conference/Mountain East Conference Championships last year.

Walthall was an assistant coach at Barton College in North Carolina, also in Division II.

He swam at York College in Pennsylvania, where he won a NCAA Division III title in the men’s 100 breaststroke. A six-time All-American, he was the Capital Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year in 2013 and the Swimmer of the Year in 2014 and 2016. He qualified for Olympic Trials in 2016.

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