Entering his tenth season leading the Pacific swimming programs in 2015-16 is head coach Alec Webster.
Webster’s teams have shown improvement for nearly every one of his seasons at the helm in the very competitive Northwest Conference.
In 2014-15, six new men’s school records were established and five women’s school records were re-written. Additionally, Katie Porter won her fourth straight NWC title in the 50-yard freestyle while Amanda Clark won another title in the 1,650-freestyle.
In 2013-14, Webster coached Porter to her third straight Northwest Conference title in the 50-yard freestyle, while Clark picked up a conference title in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Webster's men saw Michael Hargitt finish his collegiate career with a NWC title in the 200-yard breaststroke. Six men’s records and seven women’s marks still sit on the all-time school ledger from that season.
In 2010-11, it was a record year for records as Webster’s swimmers combined to set 21 new standards, 16 of the new marks coming in the Northwest Conference Championships. With talent combined with increased participation, the Boxer swimmers improved their standing in the conference. Both men and women placed fifth in the NWC Championships as the men compiled a winning dual meet record of 5-4. Webster also coached three individual swimmers to All-NWC honors as Allison Clark, Michael Hargitt and Dylan Cramer all swam to top-three finishes in the championship meet.
During the 2009-10 season, Webster’s swimmers set 12 new records on the women’s side and eight on the men’s, with both teams finishing sixth in the Northwest Conference. Webster also coached freshman, Allison Clark, to a first place finish in the 200-yard individual medley at the conference championships; she became the first Boxers’ NWC women’s champion.
The Pacific women finished with a 5-4 dual meet record and a fifth place finish in the Northwest Conference dual standings in 2008-09. Both marks were 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 coach 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.
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 an 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 and Alastair.
