Swimming and Diving
Hirsty, Jacki
Jacki Hirsty
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- jhirsty@calpoly.edu
Jacki Hirsty was named an assistant coach for the Cal Poly swimming and diving program in September 2022.
Hirsty brings over 30 years of coaching experience with her to San Luis Obispo and has been mentoring collegiate swimmers for over a decade. Hirsty spent three seasons (2019-22) as an assistant coach for the swimming and diving program at Rhodes College, a Division III school in Memphis, Tenn. Prior to that, Hirsty served as an assistant at Occidental College (2017-2019) in Los Angeles and Assumption University (2011-2015) in Worcester, Mass.
Hirsty is known for being a technical specialist and has a keen eye for recognizing what her student-athletes need to work on in the pool. She has competed in U.S. Masters Swimming events for over 30 years.
Before dipping her toes into collegiate coaching, Hirsty was the head coach at Milken Community Schools in LA and Notre Dame Academy in Worcester, and spent time as an assistant at Beverly Hills High School. She worked at the Navy Swim Camp, and was a Head Masters Coach at the East Side YMCA (Rhode Island), Quincy YMCA (Massachusetts), Newton JCC, Babson College, Boston College and MIT.
Hirsty, a member of the New England Masters Hall of Fame, competed at the highest level of Masters swimming, setting 38 world records, 32 individual national records and countless relay records along the way.
Hirsty, an East Coast native, earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her master’s from the University of Kansas. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Kansas State, Kansas and Texas Tech, and the Director of Student Affairs at the Boston Architectural College.
Hirsty brings over 30 years of coaching experience with her to San Luis Obispo and has been mentoring collegiate swimmers for over a decade. Hirsty spent three seasons (2019-22) as an assistant coach for the swimming and diving program at Rhodes College, a Division III school in Memphis, Tenn. Prior to that, Hirsty served as an assistant at Occidental College (2017-2019) in Los Angeles and Assumption University (2011-2015) in Worcester, Mass.
Hirsty is known for being a technical specialist and has a keen eye for recognizing what her student-athletes need to work on in the pool. She has competed in U.S. Masters Swimming events for over 30 years.
Before dipping her toes into collegiate coaching, Hirsty was the head coach at Milken Community Schools in LA and Notre Dame Academy in Worcester, and spent time as an assistant at Beverly Hills High School. She worked at the Navy Swim Camp, and was a Head Masters Coach at the East Side YMCA (Rhode Island), Quincy YMCA (Massachusetts), Newton JCC, Babson College, Boston College and MIT.
Hirsty, a member of the New England Masters Hall of Fame, competed at the highest level of Masters swimming, setting 38 world records, 32 individual national records and countless relay records along the way.
Hirsty, an East Coast native, earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her master’s from the University of Kansas. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Kansas State, Kansas and Texas Tech, and the Director of Student Affairs at the Boston Architectural College.
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