Cristina Teuscher, an Olympic medalist and multiple NCAAchampion at Columbia, was named Yale's Robert J.H. Kiphuth HeadCoach of Women’s Swimming and Diving on May 6, 2010.
Teuscher came to Yale from Crimson Aquatics, a private USSSwimming Club in Boston that focuses on developing national caliberathletes. She also was a consultant and coach at the Badger SwimClub in Larchmont, N.Y., and served on the 2008 USA Olympic swimcoaches six-member selection committee.
At Columbia, Teuscher was a four-time NCAA champion. She won 12Ivy League titles and set 17 school records. In her four collegiateseasons, she never lost an individual race, including all sheentered in the NCAA championships. As a senior, she received theHonda Award as the nation’s top collegiate swimmer and waslater honored with the Honda-Broderick Cup as the best collegiatewomen’s athlete in the United States.
Teuscher won a gold medal as a member of the record-setting 800freestyle relay at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Four yearslater, she medaled again at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,earning a bronze in the 200 individual medley, while serving ascaptain of the U.S. team.
Following her graduation from Columbia in 2000, she worked atthe Robin Hood Foundation in its 9/11 Relief Effort and had atwo-year stint as an analyst with Ziff Brothers Investments.
