Olympian
Tom Jager Out as Head Coach at Washington State
By Torrey
Hart
June 22nd,
2018
Swimswam.com
Washington
State University and Head Coach Tom Jager have “mutually agreed to part ways,”
Athletic Director Patrick Chun announced in a press release Friday.
“We thank
Tom, appreciate his years of service to Washington State University and wish
him great success in his future endeavors,” said Chun.
The school
said that it will immediately begin a search for the next head coach of its
women’s-only team. Jager’s wife, Becky – who served as his assistant coach for
the last three years – is presumably out as well.
Jager, one
of the most decorated US Olympians of all-time, was hired before the 2011-2012
season. He coached the team to 32 dual meet victories in his seven seasons, and
his swimmers garnered Pac-12 All-Academic honors 67 times. The team finished
8th of 9 teams at the women’s 2018 Pac-12 Championships, and never finished
above 7th place in the conference under Jager.
Jager, a
UCLA alum, was in 2016 named to the Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Olympic Sports
All-Century Team for his own swimming success.
Before
joining WSU, Jager restarted the University of Idaho’s program that had been
on-the-outs for 20 years. Though that team never had immense success in the
pool, but during his tenure, it grew a great academic and community-service
reputation. Jager has also served administrative roles in USA Swimming
(including as a part of the National Steering Committee), and as a US National
Team Captain.
As a
swimmer, he earned seven Olympic medals (five of which were gold), and
six-times broke the 50 free world record. The latter of those records (21.81)
stood for over 10 years. As a true sprinter, Jager was possibly the world’s
first superstar 50 freestyler, as he won the first two World Championships
(1986 and 1991) ever held in the race.
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$1.4
million for the bugs
WSU
officials say contribution will help fund entomological collection, speaker
series and scholarships
By Scott Jackson, Moscow Pullman Daily News
s
6/23/2018
Washington
State University's Department of Entomology was recently gifted $1.4 million -
and a collection of more than 3,000 entomological specimens - from the estate
of deceased master gardener James Hyde.
WSU
Associate Entomologist Rich Zack said the specimens will be added to the
university's M.T. James Entomological Collection. The monetary contribution,
which officials say is the largest donation of its kind to be directed toward
the department, will be split into three parts.
One-third
of the funding will be directed to support the collection, while another third
will fund a new scholarship program for entomology students called the Hyde
Fellowship.
"That's
a big thing for our department because that really allows us recruit and find
some of the better students in the country and convince them to come to
WSU," Zack said.
Zack said
there are other scholarships for the entomology program but none reaching the
scale allowed by the contribution from the Hyde estate.
The last
piece of the endowment will go toward creating the James Hyde Speaker Series,
Zack said, bringing in nationally and internationally recognized scientists to
speak at events hosted by the university.
"These
are things that are tremendously valuable that we really didn't have the
opportunity to do before because we just didn't have that type of
funding," Zack said. "For the collection and for the department, it
is a game changer - it allows us to work at a different level than we did
before."
As a
former student, Hyde had a close relationship with WSU through its master
gardener program, Zack said. Zack described master gardeners as close-knit
volunteer groups often run through universities that make themselves available
as an advisory resource to their communities.
Hyde spent
an active retirement in Kennewick doing entomological outreach and education in
the Tri-Cities.
"(Master
gardeners are) like a first line of defense for people that are having some
type of (gardening) problems," Zack said. "Towards the end, after he
retired, he got real involved in doing like school groups and going and talking
to kids at schools and telling about insects and we worked with him quite a bit
on that."
While Hyde
had his own training tools, Zack said the university would also supply him with
props and additional specimens to use in his outreach. Some of Hyde's own
collection of about 600 different species and 3,000 individual specimens will
be incorporated into the university's collection of more than 3 million
specimens, Zack said. Much of the university's collection is arranged according
to species and type of insect, while Hyde's collection is arranged more
intuitively for the purposes of education. Zack said these specimens will be
valuable for the university's outreach and education programs.
"That's
kind of valuable because then we've got almost like pre-made boxes of stuff we
can show to people that we don't have to put together, so that's really
nice," Zack said. "The specimens themselves, as I say, are not
necessarily rare or anything like that, but it's nice to have it put together
in the way that it is."
Moving
forward, Zack said the donation not only propels WSU's entomology program to
new heights but it was an unexpected boost to efforts to establish a roughly $3
million endowment for the school's entomological collection. While the
entomology department itself is in good shape, Zack said the collection
receives no funding from the university. He said Hyde's contribution will help
ensure the perpetuity of the program he worked with so closely in life.
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