BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Connecticut College head men’s and women’s water polo coach Matt Anderson announced the addition of former Brown University, McKendree University and Austin College assistant coach Jeff Passwater to his staff.
“I am looking forward to having an assistant coach who is ready to expand their growth level to prepare them for the goals they have,” noted Anderson. “Jeff has worked with some quality coaches and now has an opportunity in a full-time position to implement his skills and actively increase the Camels brand and development of the student-athletes here at Connecticut College.”
A St. Louis native, Passwater spent his youth playing for Daisy Water Polo Club and Lafayette High School prior to graduating from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Sales and Sales Management in May 1999.
He served as head coach of YCF Water Polo Club in Orlando, Fla., from June 2012-to-December 2015 before moving on to become the volunteer assistant coach at Brown University from March-to-December 2016. In January 2017, he was hired at University of the Pacific as the video analyst and was later promoted to assistant coach in the Fall of 2017. Both men’s and women’s teams at Pacific won their conference titles and qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship.
Following his time at Pacific, he joined the staff at McKendree University as an assistant men’s coach in August 2018 helping the Bearcats to the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC)-West Region Championship.
In June 2019, he assumed the position of head coach for the Trinidad and Tobago teams at the 2019 UANA Pan Am Youth Championships and took over as head coach of the Southlake team for Thunder Water Polo (Texas) in October 2019. He oversaw a staff of five coaches and petitioned the government of Trinidad and Tobago for a nutritionist, sport psychiatrist and therapy for the athletes prior to departing in August 2019.
He most recently served as an assistant coach for the Austin College men’s and women’s water polo teams from October 2019 until present. He aided head coach Mark Lawrence in helping lead the Kangaroos to the 2021 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Women’s Division III Championship.
