Jon Howell, a former assistant coach at Clemson University and 11-time NCAA national champion, was named head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving programs at Emory University in the summer of 1998.
In 11 seasons at Emory, he has guided the Eagles to 21 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III men's and women's national championships and 22 conference team titles. In 2008-09, both the Emory Men's and Women's squads claimed second place at the NCAA Championships. It marked the tenth-consecutive campaign that the men's program had finished fourth or better, while the women, in addition to their back-to-back national crowns in 2005 and 2006, now have a nine-year streak of finishing fourth or better at the National Championship.
Howell was honored as the national women's swimming Coach of the Year in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Howell and his assistants have been honored five times as conference Coaching Staff of the Year. In addition, he coached Liz Horvat to the Division III Swimmer of the Year honors in 2009.
Since his arrival at Emory, the Eagles have recorded 15 individual and four relay national champions and an incredible 557 All-America certificates awarded to their swimmers. He has overseen six conference swimmers of the year, five conference divers of the year, nineconference rookies of the year and had led both the men's and women's team to a UAA title in each of his 11 seasons with the team.
Howell was an assistant at Clemson, an NCAA Division I school, for two seasons in which the school claimed an Atlantic Coast Conference women's championship and attained 14 school record-setting performances.
Previously, Howell was the interim head coach at Kenyon College (Ohio) during the 1995-96 season in which his teams won the NCAA Division III national men's and women's championships. That season Kenyon won 14 national championships in individual or relay events, produced a Division III national record, established four new school records and swept the men's and women's conference titles.
Howell is a 1990 graduate of Kenyon, where he was 21-time All-American, primarily as a sprint freestyler. Among his 11 individual national championships are three consecutive in the 50-yard freestyle (1988-90), unmatched in NCAA Division III history in that event, and one in the 100-yard freestyle event (1990). Howell helped Kenyon to four national team championships and was twice voted the team's Most Valuable Performer. At the completion of his senior season, Howell was voted the school's Athlete of the Year.
His additional head coaching experience includes U.S. Swimming
teams in Ohio and North Carolina. In the summer of 1995 Howell
served as the United States' coach at the Hapoel Games in Israel.
Detwiler joined the Eagles as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 2009-10 season. She also serves as Aquatics Director at Emory.
Detwiler came to the Eagles after a successful two-year stint as
head coach of the Waunakee Rural Aquatic Team (WRAT) in
Wisconsin. Detwiler also coached as an assistant at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the 2003-04 season.
She has worked in the private sector in the field of
architecture since 2005 with the Engberg Anderson Design
Partnership located in Madison, Wisconsin.
Detwiler attended Kenyon College and earned four letters in
swimming (1995-1999). During her career, she was awarded a
total of four All-America certificates in 1997 and 1998. She
also competed on track and field team for three seasons.
Detwiler earned her bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Kenyon
in 1999 and obtained her master's degree in Architecture from
UW-Milwaukee in 2003.
Since coming to Emory prior to the 1999-2000 season, Cindy
Fontana has helped to lead the Eagles to unprecedented levels of
success.
With Fontana as part of the coaching staff, the Emory Swimming and
Diving men's and women's teams have finished no worse than seventh
in the nation, including back-to-back National Championships for
the Women's team in 2005 and 2006 and nine-consecutive top-four
finishes. The men's team has finished the season as one of
the top-four teams in the nation in each of her ten seasons
(the Eagles had never finished better than sixth nationally before
her arrival), including second-place finishes in 2001, 2004, 2005
and 2009. Emory has had 15 swimmers crowned
National Champions and four national champion relay teams, and
the Eagles have had a combined 549 All-America certificates awarded
to their athletes since 2000.
Fontana has helped the Eagles become the premier swimming team in
the University Athletic Association (UAA), leading the Eagles to
ten-consecutive conference titles, and coaching six conference
swimmers of the year, and nine conference rookies of the
year. She was honored as part of the conference Coaching Staff
of the Year four times, most recently for the men's team in
2007.
Prior to her arrival at Emory in the fall of 1999, Fontana spent
three years as head coach for women's swimming and diving at
Southern Connecticut State University. During the 1995-96
season, Fontana was the assistant coach for Kenyon College, which
won both men's and women's NCAA team titles.
Fontana is a 1992 graduate of Kenyon (Ohio) where she was team
captain and an NCAA competitor in the distance freestyle events and
the 400 IM. Fontana received her master's degree in exercise
science from Southern Connecticut in 2004. She also has coached
Hopkins Mariners in New Haven, Conn.
Chris Marshall, a former NCAA Division I swimmer, joined the Emory University varsity coaching staff in fall 2004. Previously, Marshall served at Emory for one year as the coach for the women's junior varsity team.
With Marshall on the coaching staff, the Emory women's team won back-to-back National Championships in 2005 and 2006, while the men recorded second-place national finishes in 2005 and 2009, and third-place national finishes in 2006 and 2007. Neither team has finished worse than fourth nationally since he came to the school. He has helped the Eagles' swimmers to 11 individual and four relay National Champions, and 277 All-America certificates.
Since joining the Eagles, Marshall has helped the team maintain its role as the dominant team in the University Athletic Association (UAA), winning the conference title in each of his five seasons. He was part of the conference coaching staff of the year in 2007, and has coached two conference swimmers of the year and five conference rookies of the year.
Marshall swam two years at NCAA Division I Lehigh (PA) before transferring to NCAA Division I Florida State University. He earned four varsity letters in high school at Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida.
Since moving to Atlanta in 1997, Marshall has been involved with the Dynamo Masters swimming program. He began as a swimmer, but in 1999 became an assistant coach for Dynamo Masters.
Marshall graduated from Florida State University in 1992 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. He later
earned a Master's of Science degree in manufacturing engineering
from FSU in 1997.
Alexandre Kossenkov, a former Olympic diver, joined the Eagle
staff as diving coach in the fall of 1998. Kossenkov brought a
wealth of knowledge from his experience as a two-time Olympian and
11-time national diving champion for the former Soviet Union. He
won the bronze medal in springboard diving at the 1976 Olympic
Games in Montreal, Canada.
Kossenkov was named the University Athletic Association (UAA)
Diving Coach of the Year in 2006. His divers have been honored as
the UAA Diver of the Year five times.
Kossenkov entered the coaching ranks with the Belarussian national
team where he remained for six years. Kossenkov was the head coach
of the Belarussian diving team for the 1996 Olympic Games.
Kossenkov is also the head coach of the U.S. club diving team Dive
Atlanta.
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