Dave Boggs has been the head coach of the Seymour High School Boys and Girls
Swimming teams for the past 39 seasons. That makes him the longest tenured
head coach in Seymour school history.
His teams have had incredible success including 36 winning seasons in 39 years of
coaching. Dave’s girls’ teams have had 29 consecutive winning seasons and his
boys’ teams have enjoyed 30 straight winning seasons. During his career at
Seymour, he has 712 dual meet wins and just 294 losses for a 70.7 win
percentage. His teams have won seven conference championships and have
finished runner-up in the sectional 25 times.
Dave has coached two individual state champions. Patrick Calhoun won the 100-
breaststroke in 1999 and Kameron Chastain won the 100-breaststroke in 2010.
He has also coached two state runners-up. Calhoun went on to qualify for the
United States Olympic Swim team in 2000 and Boggs traveled with him as his
coach to the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. Dave has his name on the
Indiana Swimming & Diving Wall of Fame at the Indiana University Natatorium in
Indianapolis, an honor he received for coaching an Indiana Olympian. He also
coached U.S. Olympic Trials qualifiers at five consecutive Trials from 2000 to
2020. Dave coached 13 National High School All-Americans, was a member of the
U.S. Swimming National Team from 2000 to 2002 and was inducted into the
Muncie/Delaware County Hall of Fame in 2007. And he was also instrumental in
developing a youth swimming program in Seymour that gives young boys and girls
the opportunity to swim year around.
Dave retired as a teacher at Seymour High School at the end of the 2022-23
school year, but will continue to coach the Seymour swim teams.