Swimming Coaching Staff
Alec Webster
Head
Men's & Women's Swimming Coach
webster@pacificu.edu
Now in his fourth season leading the Pacific swimming programs, Alec Webster has succeeded in sustaining steady growth in the young Boxers’ programs in both numbers and quality.
That growth continued during the 2008-09 season by leaps and strides. The Pacific women finished with a 5-4 dual meet record and a fifth place finish in the Northwest Conference dual standings. Both mark are the best for the Boxers since the program’s reinstatement for the 2002-03 season.
The Pacific men, meanwhile, also made major steps forward, winning a pair of dual meets and finishing in sixth place in the conference’s dual meet standings. The two teams combined to break 12 individual records and nine relay marks. Webster also coached a pair of athletes, Brandan Mantei and Eileen Bringman, within tenths-of-a-second of earning provisional qualifying marks for the NCAA Division III Championships.
Webster came to Pacific in 2006 after seven seasons as the head swimming and diving at Lake Forest College, a NCAA Division III school in Lake Forest, Ill. During his tenure at Lake Forest, Webster coached seven All-Americans, two national champions (including the 2006 Division III Diver of the Year), nine Midwest Conference (MWC) Swimmer/Divers of the Year and 51 conference champions. Webster's teams never finished worse than third at the Midwest Conference meet and he led the Foresters' men to the 2001 MWC championship.
In 2005-06, Webster led the Lake Forest programs to a combined 9-7 dual meet record (5-3 for women, 4-4 for men) and led the Foresters' women's team to an 18th place finish at the NCAA Division III Championships. He coached Kendall Swett to a national championship in the 3-meter diving event and saw Maggie Rezac earn All-American honors in the 1-meter event.
Equally interested in his athlete's academic performances as their athletic performances, Webster has seen over 50 of his athletes at Lake Forest earn academic all-conference honors and two earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American honors.
Webster began his coaching career at the Division I level, spending one season at Harvard as assistant men's water polo coach and five seasons as the assistant men's and women's swimming coach at North Carolina. While in Chapel Hill, Webster helped coach the Tar Heels to six Atlantic Coast Conference championships and also worked as the head age group coach at the North Carolina Aquatic Club.
A native of Durham, N.C., Webster swam for four years at Division III Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he helped lead the Ephs to four New England Conference championships and four top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships. He graduated from Williams in 1992 with a degree in political science and earned his master's degree in 2003 from North Carolina Central University.
Webster and his wife, Amber, have two daughters, Addison, 6, and Alastair, 3.
Alex Crampton
Assistant
Men's & Women's Swimming Coach
Alex Crampton is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Pacific swim program, bringing to the pool a wealth of experience from competition at the NCAA Division I level.
Crampton spent four seasons with the swimming & diving program at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J. A two-year team captain, Crampton set a school record in 2006 with his time of 1:54.55 in his primary specialty, the 200-yard backstroke. He also saw extensive pool time for the Peacocks as a sprint butterfly swimmer.
At the 2006 Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships, Crampton placed in the "A" final in four events, including a fourth place finish in the 100-yard butterfly and fifth place finishes in the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke races.
Prior to college, Crampton spent 15 years swimming for the Perth Stingrays club in his native Perth, Ontario.
A 2006 graduate of St. Peter's with a degree in psychology, Crampton earned his master's degree in clinical psychology from Pacific in 2008. Crampton is a fourth-year student in Pacific's School of Professional Psychology and has earned certifications as both a lifeguard and a level one soccer referee.
Tim Hamlet
Assistant
Men's & Women's Swimming Coach
Tim Hamlet is in his second year as a Pacific assistant coach and brings experience at both the college and club level to the pool deck. In addition to coaching duties, Hamlet works as the program’s recruiting director.
The head coach of the Forest Grove Swim Club since 2006, Hamlet has helped to build the program from 29 athletes to over 100 in the last three years. Since joining the club staff in 2003, Hamlet coached five athletes to national top-16 honors and two to national academic honors.
Three of his swimmers have set state records, while 26 have gone on to win state club championships. Hamlet’s resume also includes three sectional champions and one zone champion.
A talented swimmer himself, Hamlet swam for 12 years as a member of the Canby Swim Club, where be became the first 13-year-old in team history to break two minutes in the 200-yard freestyle. He went on to win district titles in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle for North Marion High School and qualified for junior college nationals in the 400-yard individual medley, 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle.
In 2005, Hamlet came out of “retirement” at age 32 to help Pacific fill out a small Boxers’ roster. He went on place 12th in the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2006 Northwest Conference Championships and had the team’s best times in that event and the 100-yard backstroke.
Hamlet, 35, completed the majority of his classwork at Pacific in 2006 to complete a degree in English literature. In addition to his coaching duties, he works with special needs children for the Multnomah County Educational Service District. In his spare time, Hamlet enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar and chasing his cat.