Forester Swimming & Diving

Career Highlights
	Third year as head coach at Lake Forest
	Led Foresters to 17 MWC championship performances, 14 school and 10 conference records, 10 Academic All-MWC honors, and an All-American finish
	Named MWC Men's and Women's Coach of the Year in 2010
	Served as a senior coach at Irvine Novaquatics, a nationally-recognized Gold Medal club, and assisted with training of Senior Nat'l, Olympic Trial, and World Championship Qualifiers
	Served as head senior coach at Barrington Swim Club, where he developed Sectional, Junior National, Senior National, and U.S. Open qualifiers as well as High School All-Americans
	All-conference swimmer on the Foresters' 1997, 1998, and 1999 MWC Championship Teams

The 2010-11 season will the third for Vadim Tashlitsky '00 as head coach of the Foresters and his ninth year in coaching.

Tashlitsky led the 2009-10 Forester men's and women's teams to runner-up finishes at the Midwest Conference Championships. The second-place finish for the men was a three-place improvement in the league standings and the women moved up one spot from the year before. Both teams were 6-1 in dual meets on the season, giving the women a record of 11-5 and the men a mark of 8-8 in Tashlitsky's two years as head coach.

Forester swimmers claimed a league-high 16 conference titles (10 individual, 6 relay) at the 2010 MWC Championships, broke 11 school and nine conference records, and posted six NCAA B-cut qualifying marks. The team added two other program records and an additional MWC mark at other meets during the season. Freshman Becky Shaak went on to earn Honorable Mention All-American honors in the 1650-freestyle by placing 12th at the NCAA Division III Championship Meet.

In addition to the 13 members of the team that can call themselves conference champions, four swimmers and divers earned Academic All-Midwest Conference honors during the 2009-10 season, giving the program 10 in Tashlitsky's tenure.

Tashlitsky came to Lake Forest from California, where he was the senior coach at Irvine Novaquatics, a nationally-recognized United States Gold Medal Swim Club. He was also the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Soka University of America.

Prior to moving to Irvine in 2006, Tashlitsky worked for four years with the Barrington Swim Club in Barrington, Illinois, and served as the club's Head Senior Coach for the final two years. He also assisted with the Barrington High School Swim Team and the Barrington Swim Club’s age group program.

Among the athletes he has coached are Senior National, United States Open, Junior National, High School All-American, Speedo Sectional Champion Series, Age Group State, Zone, and Mid-state qualifiers. Those individuals combined to break more than 60 individual college, club, and high school records. Through his position at Irvine Novaquatics he also worked directly with several Senior National, Olympic Trial, and World Championship qualifiers.

Tashlitsky, who graduated from the College in 2000, was a three-year letter winner and All-Midwest Conference swimmer. He helped the Foresters claim three consecutive conference championships in 1997, 1998, and 1999.