BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Former Chatham University women’s water polo head coach Mike Meyers continues to be involved in aquatics as the head swimming coach for the Peters Township Swim Club.
Prior to joining PTSC, he most recently coached in college at Wheeling Jesuit University as the head men’s and women’s swimming coach from 2012-to-2015.
Hired prior to the 2012-13 season, the veteran head coach led the team to three combined Appalachian Swimming Conference team titles, teams earning Cardinal men’s swimmers claimed ASC Swimmer of the Year three-straight years, teams earned Scholastic All-American status in five of six semesters and the squads have shattered close to 80 school records and many ASC marks. Meyers was also honored as the 2014 ASC Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year.
Directing the Wheeling Jesuit men, Meyers directed the squad to two ASC team titles. He also coached Henrique Fructozio (2012-13) one time and Jakub Skrzpczak (2013-14, 2014-15) to ASC Men’s Swimmer of the Year the last three conference championships. For the women, Meyers guided the Lady Cardinals to one ASC title and two runner-up finishes.
He resigned from Wheeling Jesuit in November 2015 and the swimming programs were discontinued in August 2017.
Before coming to lead WJU, Meyers, a native of Upper St. Clair, Pa., started the women’s swimming program at Chatham in 2004. In three years, the women’s team won the All-Women’s Colleges Conference (AWCC) championship and quickly joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Presidents Athletic Conference (PAC), where they finished fourth.
For five consecutive years, Meyers’ team earned All-Academic honors. In addition, he developed the university’s water polo program, which finished fifth in the nine-team tournament in the third year of existence. Like the women’s swimming program, the water polo team was dedicated to the classroom as much as athletics. He left Chatham in 2011 and the water polo program was discontinued in 2012.
Prior to his time at Chatham, Meyers led the Peters Township High School (Pa.) swimming program and PTSC for eight years. During his high school tenure, he coached several Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) and Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) champions and record holders, including 32 high school All-Americans, 10 National Qualifiers and over 40 All-State swimmers.
Meyers earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1974 from West Liberty State College (University) and a Master of Arts in Education from New Mexico State University. During his time at West Liberty, he was named National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-American in 13 events, West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) All-Conference in 16 events and Record Holder in 10 events.
In 1999, Meyers was inducted to West Liberty’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He was also enshrined in Penn Hills High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame as a swimmer (2008) and Peters Township Athletic Hall of Fame as a coach (2008).
