UIndy Athletics

Jason Hite enters his seventh season as the UIndy men's and women's swimming and diving head coach in 2021-22. In his time on campus, Hite has elevated the Greyhounds to perennial championship contenders, with his teams racking up multiple GLVC titles as well as numerous individual national championships and team podium finishes at Nationals.

Named the 2018 Division II Coach of the Year, Hite has guided the Greyhound men to three consecutive third-place showings at the NCAA DII Championships (2018, '19, '21) to go with three straight GLVC titles from 2018-20. During that span, he mentored two GLVC Men's Swimmers of the Year, one GLVC Men's Freshman of the Year and one individual national champion (Adam Rosipal, 1650 free).

On the women's side, he coached the Hounds to a third-place finish at Nationals in 2021 -- their highest ever -- while mentoring the program's first-ever event national champions; both Marizel van Jaarsveld (200 IM) and Kaitlyn McCoy (200 back) won individual titles in '21 while the Hounds also captured championships in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

All told, Hite has coached a combined 318 All-America recipients in his first seven seasons, including a program-record 83 national honorees in 2021.

Hite came to the Circle City after spending the previous three seasons at Drury University, working with the distance team, coordinating recruiting and handling day-to-day operations. Under the mentorship of DU coaching legend Brian Reynolds, Hite helped the Panthers win four NCAA Division II team national championships in that span – two each by the Drury men and women.
 
Said Hite at the time of his hire: "My goal for this team is to work with the coaching staff and the student-athletes we recruit to build programs that are competing for NCAA D-II national championships. We want to make UIndy a national powerhouse in swimming and diving."
 
Prior to his three-year stint as a full-time assistant at Drury, Hite was the head coach at various high schools in the Springfield, Mo., area from 1999-2012, garnering multiple coach of the year honors.
 
Hite earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree from Drury University. As a student-athlete in the mid-90s, Hite was an All-American and Academic All-American for the Panthers, swimming IM, fly and distance. He captained the 1997 team to a runner-up performance at Nationals and spent the next two seasons as a graduate assistant at his alma mater.
 
Drury has compiled a combined 22 swimming and diving national championships by its men's and women's squads, most in Division II history.

In addition to coaching high school swimmers, Hite taught first, second and third grades in the Springfield Public Schools gifted education program from 1999-2012 and was also the longtime Aquatics Manager at Millwood Golf & Racquet Club in Ozark, Mo.