Dan Peck is now in his eighth full year as the founder and head of Swim Smarter. Since founding it in 1999, he has been helping swimmers with stroke technique in San Diego, as well as online. He is currently running private lessons and clinics for all levels of athletes including triathletes, fitness swimmers, and elite competitive swimmers. In addition to his lessons, he is the Head Senior Coach of Pacific Swim, a nationally recognized competitive swim team, and is the Head Coach of local powerhouse Mt. Carmel High School.
With Pacific Swim as the Senior Gold Coach, he has coached and elevated swimmers to the national level placing multiple swimmers at the Junior and Senior National meets as well as the US Open and Short Course Nationals. He had a swimmer chosen for the “National Select Camp” in 2007 as one of the top 30 young swimmers in the country. Swimmers in his group have also set numerous team, high school records, CIF section records and most have gone on to college on scholarship.
Since he took the program in 2003, Mt. Carmel has won the CIF Team Championships with both the women(2005) and men(2007) and Dan was selected as “San Diego Coach of the Year” by the Hall of Champions, Union Tribune, and North County Times in 2007. He has coached 3 separate people to “CIF Swimmer of the Year” and his swimmers have set 3 individual CIF section records as well as 1 relay record. His swimmers and relays have made All- American numerous times and have been ranked as high as 1st in the country. Mt. Carmel has selected his swimmers 3 times for “Overall Athlete of the Year” and selected 6 others for “Outstanding Athlete of the Year”. The Mt. Carmel record book has been rewritten with 9 total individual records and 3 relay records being set since 2004.
For an in detailed list of Dan's swimming accomplishments click here.
