By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Eastern Illinois University head swim coach Evan Sholudko has resigned his position “to pursue other professional opportunities,” the school announced last week. His departure comes after 2 seasons leading the Panthers and leaves the program without a head coach with less than 6 weeks to go before the start of the fall 2021 academic term.
Sholudko came to Eastern Illinois in 2019 from Assumption College, where he was the head coach of the men’s team for one non-competition season in 2018-2019. That newly-launched program swam its first varsity year in 2019-2020, after Sholudko’s departure. Prior to that, he spent a season as an assistant with the Assumption women’s program.
Sholudko is a 2016 graduate of Division I UMass-Amherst, where he was a four-year scorer at the A10 Championships.
At the 2021 Summit League Championships, the Eastern Illinois women finished 5th out of 5 teams while the Eastern Illinois men finished 4th out of 5 teams. While there was one fewer team in the conference during Sholudko’s tenure than there was before it, those are the same relative positions of their finish as the two seasons before his arrival: last for the women and second-to-last for the men.
The school doesn’t sponsor a diving program.
The EIU swimmers broke 7 school records in Sholudko’s tenure. Both programs were named CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams for the spring 2021 semester, with the men scoring a GPA of 3.16and the women pulling in a 3.65 GPA.
Sholudko has not yet announced what his new professional opportunity is.
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