Coaches Vote Howard’s Askew National Collegiate Scholastic Trophy Winner

Nic Askew, the Director of Swimming and Diving and Tennis, at Howard University, has been selected by members of the CSCAA for the 2022 National Collegiate Scholastic Trophy, in recognition of his contributions to college swimming. He will be recognized at the 61st Annual CSCAA College Swimming & Diving Awards on May 2nd, in Rosemont, Illinois.

After inheriting a program that had gone without a win in nearly fifteen years, Askew helped Howard swimmers qualify for the NCAA Championships, National Invitational Championships and 2020 Olympic Games.  More than that, as the head coach of the NCAA’s only Division I Historically Black College and University (HBCU) swimming and diving program, he has, in the words of assistant coach Salim King, “provided an entire race of elite competitive swimmers with an opportunity to continue to live, train, and compete in an environment unlike any in the world.”

Askew has also worked tirelessly to teach water safety skills to children and adults throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. He has collaborated with Diversity in Aquatics, Black kids swim, and the York YMCA, to bring learn to swim clinics to as many people as possible.  That demeanor and the team’s success have garnered attention from The Washington Post, USA Swimming Foundation, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Incorporated, WHUR, WTOP, NBC4, ABC7, WUSA9, DCW50 and others.  In 2020 he was awarded the "Maritza Correia McClendon" Award by Diversity in Aquatics and 2020 Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) Coach of the Year.

Askew was selected by CSCAA-member coaches over Braden Holloway of North Carolina State University and Andrew Hentricks of Franklin College.  The trophy is presented annually by both the CSCAA and the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (NISCA) to the coach who, in the estimation of the recipient’s peers, has made "the greatest contribution to swimming as a competitive sport, and as a healthful, recreational activity in the province of undergraduate and scholastic education.”

Previous Winners

2020 - Joel Shinofield, CSCAA/USA Swimming
2019 - Eddie Sinnott, Southern Methodist University
2018 - Peter Linn, Eastern Michigan University
2017 - Susan Teeter, Princeton & Kris Kubik, Texas
2016 - Gregg Wilson, UC-Santa Barbara
2015 - Jon Howell, Emory University
2014 - Tim Welsh, Notre Dame
2013 - Matt Kredich, Tennessee
2012 - Ron Ballatore, UCLA/Florida
2011 - Gregg Parini, Denison University
2010 - Gregg Troy, Florida
2009 - Frank Keefe, Yale University, Ret.
2008 - Greg Earhart, Collegeswimming.
2007 - Don Megerle, Tufts University
2006 - Don Gambril, Alabama, Retired
2005 - Frank Busch, Arizona
2004 - Jon Urbanchek, Michigan
2003 - David Marsh, Auburn University
2002 - Teri McKeever, California
2001 - Richard Quick, Stanford University
2000 - David Marsh, Auburn University
1999 - Jean Freeman, Minnesota
1998 - Jack Bauerle, Georgia
1997 - Dr. Samuel J Freas, ISHOF
1996 - Jon Urbanchek, Michigan
1995 - Jim Steen, Kenyon College
1994 - Don Easterling, North Carolina St
1993 - Eddie Reese, University of Texas
1992 - Ernie Maglischo, CSU-Bakersfield
1991 - Nort Thornton, California,
1990 - Hoble Billingsley, Indiana
1989 - Phil Hansel, University of Houston
1988 - John Higgins, US Naval Academy
1987 - Richard Kimball, Michigan
1986 - Donald Gambril, Alabama
1985 - Raymond Bussard, Tennessee
1984 - Jack Ryan, US Military Academy
1983 - Robert F. Busbey, Cleveland State
1982 - Richard E. Steadman, Monmouth
1981 - Charles J. Butt, Bowdoin College
1980 - Gus Stager, Michigan
1979 - Philip E. Moriarty, Yale University
1978 - Jack McGuire, Iowa State
1977 - Peter Daland, USC
1976 - George F. Haines, UCLA
1975 - James E. Counsilman, Indiana
1974 - G. Robert Mowerson, Minnesota
1973 - Ted Webster, Syracuse University
1972 - Alfred R. Barr, Southern Methodist
1971 - Charles E. Silvia, Springfield
1970 - David H. Robertson, New Trier HS
1969 - Robert B. Muir, Williams College
1968 - Soichi Sakamato, Hawaii
1967 - Karl B. Michael, Dartmouth
1966 - Charles McCaffree, Michigan State
1965 - Richard Papenguth, Purdue
1964 - Harold S. Ulen, Harvard
1963 - Dave Armbruster, Iowa
1962 - Mike Peppe, Ohio State
1961 - Matt Mann, Oklahoma
1960 - Robert J. Kiphuth, Yale
1959 - Edward T Kennedy, Columbia