Chase Kreitler Resigns as Pitt Head Swim Coach
Chase Kreitler on Sunday resigned as the head coach of Pitt’s swimming and diving team despite a historic 2025-26 season.
Kreitler said in a resignation letter that Pitt “intends to move in a different strategic direction after the 2026-27 season.”
Kreitler spent four seasons at the helm of the panthers, arriving after a stint as an assistant coach at the University of California.
This season, Pitt finished sixth at the ACC Championships on the women’s side. Claire Jansen finished third in the women’s 200 back at ACCs, the first medal for a Pitt women’s swimmer in a decade, and Julian Koch added the program’s sixth men’s medal in program history. (Koch has since transferred to Tennessee.)
The program set 19 team records, including all five men’s relays, and exceeded 20 years of NCAA relay A cuts at the meet. The men’s team had been seventh, tying the highest in program history, in 2024 at ACCs, led by two-time ACC champion diver Cameron Cash.
The Pitt women notched their highest team finish at NCAAs in 29 years in 2025, scoring 21 points and finishing 27th, thanks to the program’s first All-American since 1986 in Sophie Yendell, who was fifth in the 50 free. This year, the women blasted past that, finishing 16th with 55 points. Jansen finished fourth in the 200 back and seventh in the 100 back. Sydney Gring was 10th in the 200 individual medley, 11th in the 100 back and 16th in the 200 butterfly.
Kreitler was part of two NCAA men’s championships at Cal in 2019 and 2022, with a 2021 national runner-up result in between. He’s worked with seven Olympians at the Tokyo games and was an assistant coach at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships and the 2019 World University Games. Kreitler previously worked as an assistant to Greg Meehan for the Stanford women’s team for a year and for two seasons with Eddie Reese at the Texas men’s team. He also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan and three as an assistant at LSU.
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