Brent Noble's short time as the UIndy Swimming & Diving Head Coach has included the most successful stretch in program history. Voted by his peers as the 2023 CSCAA Division II Men's Head Coach of the Year, Noble led the Greyhound men to their first-ever team national title in March of '23, while the UIndy women secured their second straight runner-up finish.
After joining the UIndy staff as an assistant in 2019, Noble has helped build both UIndy swim & dive programs into premier DII powerhouses. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach in the summer of 2020, Interim Head Coach of December of 2021, and finally Head Coach in April of '22. Both squads earned podium finishes at Nationals every year between 2021-24.
In his three seasons as head coach, the Greyhounds have racked up 19 combined event national championships—more than the rest of the program’s entire history. Most recently, UIndy won a total of seven event titles at the 2024 NCAA DII Championships as well as a school-record 83 All-America performances.
At the conference level, Noble has two GLVC Coach of the Year honors to his credit and three league titles, with the UIndy men winning both in 2022 and ’24 and the women capturing the conference crown in between.
Prior to coming to UIndy, Noble served as a collegiate head coach for a total of seven years, split between the University of Evansville, Wabash College and Sacred Heart University. He experienced success at all three stops with numerous school records, NCAA All-America awards, Coach of the Year honors and national top-10 rankings. His longest coaching stop was five years at Wabash College, where he oversaw the Little Giants break 23 of the 24 school records in that span. Noble also served in assistant coaching roles at East Carolina University and DePauw University and more recent as the Director of Swimming Science and Technology at The Race Club in Islamorada, Fla.
Noble grew up swimming in Terre Haute, Ind., and went on to compete as a student-athlete at Eastern Illinois University. He was a team captain and conference champion at EIU before going on to graduate work at Indiana University in the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming. He studied Exercise Physiology at IU with some of the foremost swimming researchers in the world. Noble strives to use his academic background in science to identify the most effective ways to achieve swimming success, and he is eager to learn every day through working with unique swimmers.
Brent lives in Indianapolis with his wife Emily, daughter Hannah and son Vance.
