Fran Smith, Head Coach
 Fran Smith comes to Bridgewater College as the swimming program's first head coach.
Smith has been involved with the area swim scene for the past 15 years. She has coached the summer swim league team since 1993 with great success. In the past 10 years, her team has won the league championship meet five times.
She became the first head coach of the Turner Ashby High School swim team in 2004. At Turner Ashby, she has had at least five swimmers qualify for the state championship meet in each of the past three years. In 2006, she coached the men's 50-yard freestyle state champion.
Since 1975, Smith has taught Physical Education and Health in the Rockingham County School System. She has taught at Montevideo Middle School since 1992 and during her career has also coached girls' basketball and boys' and girls' track and field.
Smith graduated from Turner Ashby High School in 1971 and then attended James Madison University where she graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical and Health Education K-12.
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