Drury University Athletics

Caleb Rhodenbaugh will enter his second year on the Drury swimming & diving coaching staff in 2023-24. Rhodenbaugh joined the Panthers in December of 2022 after serving as a graduate assistant coach at Southern Methodist University for three seasons. 

In his first year at Drury, Rhodenbaugh helped the Drury men's team to a Great Lakes Valley Conference championship and an NCAA-II Runner-Up finish. The men's squad had their 200 Medley Relay win the national championship and Davi Mourao won the national title in the 100 Breast. The Drury women's team finished third nationally, Allie Waller won a national championship in the 200 Back and Claire Conover was named the GLVC women's Swimmer of the Year in 2023. 

Competing for SMU, Rhodenbaugh set program records in the 100 Breaststroke and 200 Breaststroke, won eight American Athletic Conference championships winning the 100 Breast and 200 Breast three times each in addition to earning titles in the 200 Medley Relay and 400 Medley Relay. Rhodenbaugh was a nine-time NCAA Championships qualifier, named all-conference in 11 events, and was the 2022 Co-Most Outstanding Swimmer in the AAC. He also posted a US Olympic Trial cut in 2021. 
 
Before transferring to SMU, Rhodenbaugh swam for Missouri, where he swam the seventh-best time ever at Mizzou in the 200 Breast. He was also a member of the SEC Honor Roll during his two seasons for the Tigers. Rhodenbaugh helped Rock Bridge High School in Columbia to the Missouri state championship in 2015, where Zach Mertens, now a Drury assistant, was his head coach.
  
Rhodenbaugh’s father, Greg, has been the head swimming & diving coach SMU since 2019 and was the head coach at Missouri for eight seasons. He was an assistant coach at Arizona and helped the men’s and women’s teams to National Championships in 2008.