Kameron Chastain Named Interim Coach at Notre Dame as Irish Repopulate Roster
Kameron Chastain has been named the interim head coach of Notre Dame after Chris Lindauer this month left to take over the Stanford women’s program.
Chastain followed Lindauer from Louisville, his alma mater, where he was an assistant to Lindauer. He spent seven seasons with the Cardinals before being hired in South Bend on June 1, 2022, a month and a half after Lindauer arrived to take over the Irish.
Chastain swam for Louisville from 2010-14, swimming at NCAAs all four years and helping the Cardinals to two conference team championships. Chastain won nine conference titles and was part of a relay that finished ninth at NCAAs in 2012.
He won the American Athletic Conference title in the men’s 200 breaststroke in 2014 and the Big East 100 breast in 2012. He competed at NCAAs in both breaststroke events and the 50 freestyle. The native of Indiana swam at Seymour High School and won a state championship in the 100 breast.
Chastain remained on the staff with Lindauer despite the Notre Dame men’s swim team being placed on hiatus for 2024-25. The decision was announced last August, and the team was reinstated in February for the 2025-26 season.
With that, the Irish have published a roster for the rebuilt team that will resume competition in the fall. That group does not include incoming freshman but is led by eight sophomores who stuck it out through the suspended season. The roster also includes one junior and six seniors.
Among the swimmers who remain on the team since the end of the 2024 season are Dillon Edge, Marcus Gentry, Tommy Janton, Lucas Logue and Samuel Sierra. (Divers Daniel Knapp and Benedict Nguyen were allowed to dive last year for the Irish, with the suspension affecting only the swimming contingent. Notre Dame did not maintain a swimming roster through the suspended season.) American Olympian Chris Guiliano’s transfer to Texas was the highest-profile departure from last season.