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Collegiate Water Polo Association Coordinator of Officials Ed Reed Claims Third Place in 75-79 Age Group 100-Meter Breaststroke at 2021 U.S. Masters Long Course Championship

Oct 8, 2021

Collegiate Water Polo Association Coordinator of Officials Ed Reed Claims Third Place in 75-79 Age Group 100-Meter Breaststroke at 2021 U.S. Masters Long Course Championship
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GENEVA, Ohio — Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Coordinator of Officials Ed Reed finished in a time of 1:38.60 to claim Third Place in the 75-79 age group of the men’s 100-Meter Breaststroke at the 2021 U.S. Masters Long Course National Championships hosted at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Returning to the water after claiming the 75-79 age group National Championship in the 400-Meter Individual Medley in a time of 7:18.38, the former men’s water polo head coach at Brown University, former varsity swimming coach and men’s collegiate club water polo coach at the University of Alabama and CWPA Hall of Fame inductee was outpaced to the wall by Steve Peterson (1:35.63) and Kurt Olzmann (1:35.78).

Reed, who entered the event seeded third with a time of 1:41.47 behind Peterson (1:34.40) and Thomas Boak (1:40.00) – who did not race – previously knocked off Peterson in the 400 IM for the National Championship.  Peterson entered the 400 IM as the top seed with a time of 7:19.50, but Reed obliterated his seed time (7:42.53) to claim the win by over two seconds (7:18.38 to 7:20.83).

Reed is set to continue competition over the remainder of the weekend in the 200-Meter Freestyle Relay on Friday, October 8.  On Saturday, October 9, he is listed among the competitors in the 400-Meter Freestyle and 200-Meter Breaststroke.  Finally, on Sunday, October 10, he is tentatively slated to compete in the 50-Meter Breaststroke and 200-Meter Individual Medley.

 

100-Meter Breaststroke (Age Group 75-79)

Club Swimmer Seed
Time		 HT/LN Time Place Points
PSM Peterson, Steve 1:34.40 2/4 1:35.63 1 11
MICH Olzmann, Kurt 1:45.00 2/2 1:35.78 2 9
SHARK Reed, Ed 1:41.47 2/3 1:38.60 3 8
GSMS List, Robert 1:41.90 2/6 1:40.94 4 7
WMAC Mueller, Lawrence 1:59.53 2/7 2:06.88 5 6
SLAM Pohlmann, John 2:12.43 2/8 2:10.58 6 5
SHARK Trimble, Gary 2:04.44 2/1 2:24.58 7 4
WMST Boak, Thomas 1:40.00 2/5 NS

 

About Ed Reed: A 2003 inductee to the CWPA Hall of Fame, Ed Reed began his coaching tenure at Brown University in 1971 when he was named head coach of the men’s varsity swim team and club water polo team. In 1974, the men’s water polo team achieved varsity status as he built the program into an East Coast powerhouse.

Reed never experienced a losing season at Brown, compiling a career record of 420-159-5 in 20 years at the helm. In fact, during a nearly five-year span in the 1980’s his Brown squad did not lose a game against an eastern collegiate opponent. He led the Bears to 17-consecutive New England Championships and four Eastern Championships, including three straight from 1983-85, and a record ten Eastern Championship final appearances. Under Reed, the team made eleven NCAA tournament appearances, finishing sixth in 1983, 1984 and 1985.

Under Reed, Brown accomplished a pair of eastern collegiate water polo firsts. The 1984 squad finished the season with a #6 ranking in the American Water Polo Coaches’ Association poll, the best ever for a school from the east. The Bears’ 1986 home victory over then No 4-ranked Pepperdine University constituted the first time an east coast school defeated a top five nationally ranked team.

Seventeen student-athletes earned All-America honors while playing for Reed at Brown. He received Eastern Water Polo League Coach of the Year honors in 1987 and 1989. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Aquatic Hall of Fame in 1986, the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996 and the United States Water Polo Hall of Fame in 1999.

He also contributed to the sport on the national level, serving on the coaching staff of the United States Men’s National Water Polo Team from 1993-96. He worked with the 1995 U.S. squad that won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Argentina and was an assistant coach for the seventh-place U.S. team at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta. He was also elected President of the American Water Polo Coaches Association and served on several committees for United States Water Polo.

Reed was a two-time All-America as a swimmer at Springfield College, winning the 1965 New England Intercollegiate Championship in the 200 meter individual medley. He started his coaching career at Tufts University in 1966.

He retired in the spring of 2008 as the Aquatic Center Manager for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., but continues to give back to the sport of water polo as a referee evaluator as part of the CWPA Technical Committee and as the league’s Coordinator of Officials.

He and his wife Andy reside in Tuscaloosa and have two children, Scott and Kerrie. Scott is the head coach of the Macalester College women’s water polo team, carrying on the family water polo tradition, after serving as the head coach of the men’s and women’s programs at George Washington University.

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