By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The Cincinnati Marlins have promoted Brandon Voorhies to be the program’s new full-time head coach and CEO, effective immediately. He replaces Brad Isham, who left the program in September after five-and-a-half years.
Voorhies had been serving as the program’s interim head coach since September.
Voorhies joined the Cincinnati Marlins as Senior Program Director in the summer of 2021. During his first year on deck, Voorhies coached 44 top 10 all-time Marlin performances. In October 2022, one of his swimmers, Thackston McMullan, was selected to attend the USA Swimming Select Camp at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.
McMullan is committed to swim at Cal beginning fall 2024 and is the defending Ohio High School State Champion in the 500 free.
Vorhees previously worked as the head age group coach at the nearby Countryside YMCA from 2018-2021, as well as the head coach of Indian Hill High School.
At the Countryside YMCA, he coached swimmers to 39 team records and 33 USA Swimming Top 10 finishes.
Scholastically, he earned the Cincinnati High School Swimming Coach of the Year award in 2019.
As an undergrad at Ohio State, he competed for the Ohio State Swim Club and served as president in the club’s last two years. That includes leading the team to a Collegiate Club Swimming National Title on the men’s side, a runner-up finish on the women’s side, and a combined national title overall. He was one of the 10 club presidents who founded the current Collegiate Club Swimming governing body.
As a junior athlete, he was a six-time YMCA National qualifier.
Voorhies takes over a historic American swimming club, founded in 1961. The team is headquartered out of the Keating Natatorium at St. Xavier High School, where the scholastic program has won 23 Ohio High School Division I State Championships in the last 24 years.
The Marlins have produced 18 Olympic swimmers who have won 23 Olympic medals, set 15 World Records, 19 American Records, and have produced 6 American Swimmers of the Year.
McMullan was the club’s lone representative at the recent Speedo Winter Junior Championships – East meet. His best finish was 24th place in the 100 free, swimming a time of 45.40.
The team also sent one swimmer, Audrey Zimmerman, to last summer’s Futures Championships. The Marlins boys finished 5th at March’s Ohio Junior Olympics, while the girls finished 2nd, just 7 points behind the Mason Manta Rays.
SwimSwam: Cincinnati Marlins Hire Brandon Voorhies As New Head Coach
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