The University of Pennsylvania has received a large acquisition to endow the caput coaching presumption and enactment the university’s varsity swimming and diving programme into the future.
Louis Kozloff, who graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences successful 1965 and from Penn’s aesculapian schoolhouse successful 1969, and his woman Rene C. Kozloff, who graduated from Penn’s nursing schoolhouse successful 1967, made the gift. That acquisition established found the Lou and Rene Kozloff Head Coach of Swimming position.
While the schoolhouse didn’t denote the nonstop magnitude of the gift, 1 root tells SwimSwam that it was conscionable implicit $1 cardinal and is an property gift.
Lou Kozloff is simply a vascular surgeon successful North Bethesda, Maryland and swam connected the varsity squad astatine Penn. He is besides a Professor of Surgery astatine the George Washington University Medical Center.
“Penn Athletics is thrilled to person loyal alumni similar Lou and Rene, who recognize the value of supporting our swimming programs close present and successful the future,” said Alanna Shanahan, C’96, T. Gibbs Kane, Jr., W’69, Director of Athletics and Recreation. “The Kozloffs’ committedness volition guarantee that Penn is capable to clasp and pull talented coaches who usher our student-athletes to occurrence successful and retired of the water. We are truthful grateful for the Kozloffs’ enduring enactment of the Red and Blue.”
The Kozloffs person been progressive members of the Penn assemblage for decades. Lou serves connected the Penn Alumni Board, the Medical Alumni Advisory Council, and the Penn Athletics Swimming Board, and has held assorted unpaid enactment positions crossed the University. He is simply a subordinate of the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame. Rene is simply a Class of 1967 reunion unpaid and has besides been engaged successful assorted unpaid roles successful work to Penn.
“As a erstwhile Penn swimmer, this acquisition is immensely personal,” said Lou Kozloff. “It is an grant to lend to the program’s growth, and to alteration talented swimmers astatine Penn to summation invaluable skills similar leadership, teamwork, and clip management, that volition payment them successful the excavation and successful their nonrecreational lives aft Penn.”
“We are incredibly grateful for the Kozloffs’ support. Their acquisition sends a captious connection to our talented swimmers and divers: we judge successful them, and we are committed to preparing them for occurrence successful the pool, successful the classroom, and successful their careers,” said Mike Schnur, Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Coach. “I’m humbled to beryllium the inaugural Louis and Rene Kozloff Head Coach of Swimming—what an grant and a worthy concern for our varsity swimmers.”
Current Penn men’s and women’s caput swimming & diving coach Mike Schnur has led the programme for 17 seasons, and is liable for coaching some of the school’s NCAA titles: Chris Swanson successful the mile astatine the 2016 men’s championship, and Lia Thomas successful the 500 escaped astatine the 2022 women’s championship. Both teams finished 3rd astatine past year’s Ivy League Championship meet.
Sophomore Matt Fallon presently leads the NCAA this play successful the 200 breaststroke.
According to a Penn property release, the Kozloffs anticipation that their acquisition volition “inspire others to person an interaction and that their acquisition volition service arsenic a launching constituent to promote others to marque endowment gifts of their own.”
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