Denison Honors Veteran Swimming
Coach
With 2007 Teaching Excellence Award
GRANVILLE -- Denison University honored a 20-year
member of the faculty at its recent Academic Awards Convocation with the
Charles A. Brickman Teaching Excellence Award. Associate Professor of
Physical Education J. Gregg Parini was recognized by President Dale T.
Knobel for being an advocate for students while he constantly challenges
them to excel at the highest standards, academically and in all other
dimensions of their lives.
Head coach of the men's and women's swimming and
diving teams, Parini has led Denison teams to 38 straight top-10 finishes
at the NCAA Division III Championships, with the 2001 team finishing as
the champions of the Division.
University President Dale Knobel (left) poses with Brickman Teaching
Excellence Award winner Gregg Parini outside Swasey Chapel following
Denison's 2007 Academic Awards Convocation.
"Gregg has been an outstanding and effective teacher
of the principle that accomplishment depends on the wedding of
concentrated thinking with hard work, motivation and discipline," said
Knobel during the presentation. "He views true student learning not as the
development of a single capacity, but as the honing of a comprehensive set
of traits that converge in attainment at ever higher levels."
Parini has coached 200 All-Americans to 1,541
All-American performances; coached 20 swimmers who earned NCAA
postgraduate scholarships; coached two swimmers to U.S. Olympic Trial
qualifying performances and one to the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.
Thirty eight consecutive Denison teams have earned
Team All-Academic honors. Parini has been named North Coast Athletic
Conference Swimming Coach of the Year seven times and also had been named
the NCAA Division III Swimming Coach of the Year seven times.
Parini has served as a national coaching adviser for
the Isle of Mauritius, as the 1987 national meet director of the men's and
women's NCAA Division III championships, and as a keynote speaker at
numerous association meetings and conventions. He earned his bachelor's
degree at Kenyon College where he was an 18-time All-American and a
seven-time Division III National Swimming Champion, including five
national records. He was inducted into Kenyon's Athletic Hall of Fame in
May 2002. He also has earned a master's degree in counseling psychology at
Michigan State University.
The Brickman Teaching Excellence Award recipient must
have demonstrated a
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