Mark Lang enters his second season as an assistant coach with the Cleveland State men’s and women’s swimming team.
In Lang’s first year with the program, both teams finished third at the Horizon League Championships. He produced four total individual champions, with two coming from each gender: Jackson Nester (400-yard IM) & Paddy Johnston (200-yard Fly) for the men and Gracie Chelf (50-yard Free) & Giovanna Cappabianca (200-yard Breast) for the women.
The season saw the men go 4-3 in dual meets to go along with five individual podium finishers and two relay podium finishers. For school records, two individuals and one relay set marks. The women went 5-4 in dual meets with six individual podium finishers and four relays reaching the stand. In addition, two women set school records.
Out of the pool, Lang aided in five Academic All-League honors, including Jackson Nester being named the Horizon League Winter Scholar-Athlete of the Season. Nester also received the prestigious Cecil N. Coleman Medal of Honor Award.
Lang arrives after spending last season as an assistant coach at Trinity University, helping the men's and women's teams to SCAC Championships. In his lone season, he aided in eight NCAA All-Americans, 15 SCAC Champions, and one SCAC Swimmer of the Year on the women's side, which was also an NCAA National Champion.
Lang previously spent two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at Kenyon College, helping with 15 NCAA Champions. The men's and women's teams had top-five national finishes each year, winning the 2022 NCAA National Championship on the women's side and a runner-up finish on the men's in 2023. At the conference level, the women won the NCAC Championship in 2022 and the men in 2023.
Lang was the head coach of the Manistee Swim team for two years and the interim head coach at Manistee High School for a year. He also served two seasons as an assistant coach at SERF Swim Club in Gambier, Ohio.
Lang received degrees in neuroscience and biology from Kenyon, where he was also a member of the swim team. Lang qualified for the NCAA III Championships each of his two seasons at Kenyon and was an All-American in 2020.
