Wally Senter - Women's Swimming and Diving Coach - University of Toledo Athletics

Wally Senter

Title:
Assistant Swimming Coach
Email:
wallace.senter@utoledo.edu
Phone:
419-530-2532

Wally Senter is entering his second season Toledo Rockets Swimming and Diving coaching staff in 2022-23, after joining the summer before start of the 2021-22 season.

In Senter’s first season, he helped coach Toledo to an eighth-place finish the MAC Championships, while improving 12 season-best swims, 21 personal-best swims and three school records. Toledo had four athletes swim at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships, where Kennedy Lovell broke the school record in the 200 Free (1:47.17) and the team finished 24th with 70 team points. In the classroom, the team earned the highest team GPA for the fall 2021 (3.789) and spring 2022 (3.825) semesters including 15 Academic All-MAC selections. The Rockets earned the honor of CSCAA Scholar All-America Team for the highest GPA of all DI women’s programs in the fall, and the second-highest team GPA in the spring.

Senter spent four seasons at Henderson State before joining the Rockets. During those four seasons as an assistant, the men’s swimming and diving team finished each season ranked in the Top 30 at the NCAA Division II National Championships. Senter helped coach one NCAA Division II runner-up, one South American Games champion swimmer, three Division II All-Americans, and 23 school record holders. The men’s team finished in second place in the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference (NSISC) in 2020 and 2021 during his tenure. One of Senter’s student-athletes at Henderson State qualified for the Junior Pan-American Games this past summer.

Prior to his time at Henderson State, Senter was an assistant coach with the Chattahoochee Gold Swim Club’s Mountain View Aquatic Center in Marietta, Ga., serving as the lead coach for a high school group as well as an elementary school group. He helped increased the retention rate for his high schoolers by 75 percent during his time there. Senter helped top athletes prepare for the Age Group Sectionals, one of the biggest 14U meets on the USA Swimming calendar.

Senter also has experience as a coaching intern at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky. and as an assistant coach with Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta. While at Lindsey Wilson, the women’s team finished in sixth place at NAIA National Championships and the men’s team finished in eighth place, both of which were the highest finishes in program history. He also coached the first national champion swimmer in program history. While at Dynamo, Senter helped coach a 10U group and, additionally, assisted with coaching a senior group of swimmers that featured Olympic Trial qualifiers.

A 2014 graduate of Georgia College, Senter received his bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a concentration in public relations and advertising. He received an associate degree from Albany State (then Darton State College) in general studies in 2012, where he was a three-time NJCAA All-American swimmer. Senter earned his master’s degree in sports administration at Henderson State in December 2021.