Swimming and Diving
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- tgranger@calpoly.edu
Former Mustang swimmer and head coach Traci Granger rejoined the Cal Poly swimming and diving coaching staff in December 2022, and was elevated to interim co-head coach for the 2024-25 season in September 2024.
Granger swam at Cal Poly from 1978-80 and previously served as head coach for the program during the 1984-85 season. In November, Granger will be inducted into the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame.
Granger, a Tulare, Calif. native, has had a decorated career in and out of the pool, establishing herself as one of the fastest swimmers in the world in her age group. In 1980, she helped Cal Poly capture AIAW Division II national titles in the women’s 200 medley and 400 medley relays, and she set multiple school records during her career as a Mustang.
Granger has won multiple U.S. Masters Swimming national titles and owns FINA World Championships in the 50 and 100 butterfly. She holds over a dozen American records across several age groups in the 50 free and 50 and 100 butterfly, has broken several world and Pan-American records over the years and is currently the women’s 60-64 age group world record holder in the 50-meter butterfly for short course and long course.
On top of dominating in the water, Granger taught Kinesiology at El Camino College in Torrance for 35 years before retiring at the end of 2021. She also served as an assistant coach for the Warriors’ swimming and diving program for 20 years.
Granger currently coaches and teaches swim lessons at Avila Bay Athletic Club.
Granger, a multiple-time Dean’s List honoree, graduated from Cal Poly in 1980 with a bachelor’s in physical education and earned her master’s in education administration with an emphasis in athletic administration from Colorado State in 1984. She also served as the associate athletic director of women’s sports at UCLA from 1986-88.
