University of Arizona Athletics

Olympic gold medalist Beth Botsford will serve as an assistant coach for the Arizona swimming and diving program, where she was an All-American from 2000-03 under head coach Frank Busch.
 
In 2000, Botsford won an NCAA Championship in the 200-yard backstroke, helping UA finish as the national runner-up. Her time of 1:53.52 at the 2000 NCAA Championships remains the sixth-best time in Arizona history. Botsford was the 2000 Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year and earned UA’s Ruby Award in 2003, given annually to the department’s most outstanding senior female student-athlete. In 2008, Botsford was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.
 
Also an outstanding swimmer internationally, Botsford won gold medals in the 100-meter backstroke and 4x100-meter medley relay at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta at just 15 years of age. Botsford garnered a silver medal in the 200-meter backstroke and bronze in the 100-meter backstroke during the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She set two American and two U.S. Open records during her career.
 
Following her swimming career in Tucson, Botsford began teaching swim clinics across the world before founding a swim school in Wisconsin, where she was the head coach of the Madison Memorial High School swim team in 2011.
 
In 2013 and ‘14, Botsford served as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin before serving as the coach of the Waunakee Wave swim team.
 
A native of Timonium, Md., Botsford graduated from Arizona in 2003.