Two-time Australian Olympic swimmer and former Auburn University head swimming coach
Brett Hawke is a two-time Olympic swimmer for Australia and a three-time Olympic coach. He represented Australia in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympic Games, finishing sixth in the Athens final. In the Athens semifinals he swam 22.07, a time that stood as the Australian record in the event. Hawke is a five-time Australian national champion and a three-time Commonwealth Games medalist, including a silver in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he closed his competitive career.
Hawke swam for Auburn University, where he earned 17 All-America honors, won nine NCAA individual titles and seven SEC titles, and was part of two national championship teams, in 1997 and 1999. He returned to Auburn as an assistant coach in 2006, working directly with the program's sprinters, and served as head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving teams from 2009 to 2018. He was named national coach of the year in 2009, the season Auburn's men won the NCAA team title, and SEC Men's Coach of the Year in 2012. Auburn swimmers under Hawke won 11 NCAA individual titles and 64 individual SEC titles, and 14 Olympians trained in his program.
Hawke has also worked three Olympic Games on national team staffs: with Brazil in 2008, when Cesar Cielo won the 50-meter freestyle in an Olympic-record 21.30, with the Bahamas in 2012, and with Brazil again in 2016. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2010.
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