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Matt Lenhart

  • Class
  • Induction
    2006
  • Sport(s)
    Coaches

In 20 years as the head coach of men's and women's swimming at John Carroll, Matt Lenhart has guided the Blue Streaks to 31 league championships -- breaking the record of 23 accumulated by Tony DeCarlo in wrestling (1966 thru 1987) and football (1989 and 1994).

Since taking over the reigns of the program in 1986, Lenhart has captured three Presidents' Athletic Conference women's titles (1987-89), 15 Ohio Athletic Conference women's crowns (1990-2001, 2003-04, 2006) and 12 OAC men's championships (1990-96, 1998, 2000-04).

Lenhart has also coached a national champion and nine All-Americans, earned PAC Women's Coach of the Year three times, and has been recognized as the OAC Coach of the Year 17 times - nine times on the men's side and eight times on the women's side.

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