USA Swimming Foundation Names Lucinda McRoberts Executive Director
Lucinda McRoberts has been named the executive director of the USA Swimming Foundation, the organization announced Thursday.
As the director of USA Swimming’s philanthropic arm, she will manage the staff of the foundation and work with its board of directors and trustee council. The USA Swimming Foundation’s mission is geared toward the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles. Among its many functions is to provide access and funding to swimmers from learn-to-swim through the U.S. national team.
“I am tremendously grateful for this opportunity to work with some of the sport’s biggest supporters,” McRoberts said in a press release. “The USA Swimming Foundation already has a phenomenal board of directors and supporting staff, and I will do my best to facilitate their continued success. There is no more important work in swimming than the Foundation’s mission of saving lives, building champions, and impacting communities.”
McRoberts is USA Swimming’s Chief Administration Officer, where she oversees the Business Affairs Unit. She will continue in both roles. A graduate of Yale and the University of Michigan Law School, McRoberts took that job in 2021. She joined USA Swimming in 2014 as its first Chief Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs. In 2016, she became the Secretary and General Counsel.
She also has a role in the Aquatics Coalition, a national organization of learn-to-swim programs, health and rehabilitation groups, and competitive teams assembled to cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to swimming access in the U.S.
“(The Executive Director position) is an opportunity for Lucinda to expand her leadership responsibilities and provide an even greater reach externally to our community, our constituents and our stakeholders,” USA Swimming President & Chief Executive Officer Tim Hinchey said. “She is someone who is in the highest levels of executive boardrooms all the time. As our Chief Administrative Officer and leader of our government and international relations, it makes great sense that she also helps us reach out with the mission of the USA Swimming Foundation.”