Greg Werner is in his 14th year as head coach of the Ohio swimming and diving program. While at Ohio, he has extended the Bobcats' tradition of success, guiding the team to numerous league and national accolades, including Mid-American Conference Women's Championships in 2000, 2001 and 2008.

Werner is coming off a very successful 2007-08 campaign in which his squad went 12-1 in dual meets and captured first place at the MAC Championships. He helped the Bobcats place a conference-best five athletes on the All-MAC First Team and five athletes on the All-MAC Second Team. However, the season's success wasn't limited to the MAC Championships as three Bobcats qualified for the 2008 USA Olympic Trials, nine were named Collegeswimming.com Mid-Major Honorable Mention All-Americans and nine were named CSCAA Academic All-Americans. Additionally, the Bobcats were named an Academic All-American team with an impressive 3.4 team GPA.

The Bobcats' efforts did not go unnoticed in 2007-08 as Werner was named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year. Werner has also been named MAC Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2004. The inaugural honor was after leading the Bobcat women to the first of two-consecutive conference championships. That year the women recorded a 13-2 dual-meet record, the most wins a Bobcat team has earned in his 13 seasons at the helm.

Under the tutelage of Werner, Ohio swimmers have gained many accolades. He has coached five MAC Swimmers of the Year (Joanne Park '98, Hollie Bonewit '99, Kim van Selm 2000, '01, Shannon Kelly '02), 19 Academic All-Americans (Lisa Schuette '96, Anders Lindgren '96, Doug Grebe '97, '98, Vermund Vetnes '97, Emily Bresser 2000, '01, Emily Frasco '03, Trisha Kessler '03, Heather Rennebohm '04, Chelsey Bower '08, Amanda Cecere '08, Leah Giancarli '08, Rachel Heim '08, Stacey Huber '08, Ashley Marion '08, Mallory Rico '08, Amanda Traylor '08, Emily Wylam '08) and one All-American (Hollie Bonewit 2000). In addition, Werner has guided six Bobcat swimmers to MAC Outstanding Senior Awards (Lisa MacNicol '97, Park 2000, Bresser '01, van Selm '02, Kessler '03, Kelly '04). Divers have also excelled under Werner's watch as Bobcat aerial specialists have landed the conference's top honor by being named Mid-American Conference Diver of the Year in 1998 (Kacy Culver) and in 2002, 2003 and 2004 (Robert Krichbaum).

His résumé at Ohio also includes 115 MAC Championship event titles while guiding 23 women and seven men to 76 individual conference championships. In addition, Werner's relay teams have combined to win 43 MAC titles during his tenure, crowning 39 different women and four men.

Werner has compiled a 175-101-3 (.627) overall record at Ohio, including an impressive 129-31-2 (.796) mark in women's dual meets. He has also guided the Bobcats in the classroom, where both his squads have been named NCAA Academic All-America teams for their scholarly performance every season since 1995.

After an extensive career on the collegiate and club levels, Werner came to Ohio following eight years at Southern Methodist University, where he helped the swimming and diving teams make the jump from a top-25 national ranking to four-consecutive national top-four finishes. At SMU, he helped the Lady Mustangs capture the 1992, 1993 and 1994 U.S. Open team titles. Those teams spawned seven NCAA Division I national champions, 32 Southwest Conference champions and over 75 NCAA All-America honors.

Werner has made a splash nationally and internationally as he has been named to ten USA National Team staffs. Most recently, Werner was tabbed the team manager for the USA Swimming 2009 World Championships squad, which will compete in Rome, Italy. This latest appointment follows his service with the national teams representing the United States in the 1998 (New York City) and 2001 (Brisbane, Australia) Goodwill Games, the 2002 Pan-Pacific Championships (Yokohama, Japan) and the 2005 and 2007 World Championships in Montreal, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. In 1990 and 1993, Werner was on staff at the U.S. Olympic Festivals in Minneapolis and San Antonio. In 1995, he served on the U.S. staff at the Pan-American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. Additionally, Werner was on the 1999 World University Games staff in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 1991, he was the head coach of the North Texas Southern Zone championship team as well as the North Texas age group and national racing camps.

Werner began his coaching career at South Carolina as a student assistant. During the 1984-85 season, the Gamecocks won the Metro Conference title and logged national finishes of 14th (women) and 23rd (men), while fielding 15 All-Americans.

Upon graduation, Werner traveled to Portland, Ore., where he served as the assistant senior coach and head age group coach for the T.O.P. Swim Team. In just under 22 months, the U.S.S. Club leaped from 35th in the state to the second-ranked program.

Werner is a native of New York City and was raised in the San Francisco Bay area where he earned All-America honors at Campolindo High School. He competed collegiately at the University of South Carolina, where he served as the captain of the 1983-84 conference-championship team and qualified for the NCAA Championships. Werner earned his bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina in 1985.