Jordan Lieberman - Women's Swimming & Diving Coach - Boise State University Athletics

Jordan Lieberman

Title:
Assistant Coach, Swimming
Email:
JordanLieberman@boisestate.edu
Phone:
208-509-2125

BOISE STATE TENURE

Jordan Lieberman enters his second season as the assistant swimming coach for Boise State. During his first year with the Broncos the team recorded a 16-5 overall regular-season record (8-1 duals, 8-4 invites/championships). In addition, the team placed third at the Mountain West Championships and took fourth at the CSCAA National Invitation Championships.

He assisted in the coaching of then-senior Abbey Sorensen who was named the Mountain West Swimming and Diving Championships Co-Swimmer of the Meet, as well as the MW Swimmer of the Year.

During the conference championship meet at Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 20-23, 2019, the Blue and Orange tallied three championships, two individual and one relay. Other honors at the meet included 12 Broncos combing for 22 individual and four relay all-conference honors, in addition to Sorensen’s co-swimmer of the meet accolade.

In the classroom, the team recorded a 3.67 team cumulative grade point average (GPA) on the year with a record 3.68 team GPA in the spring semester. The team received the CSCAA Scholar All-American Team award each semester, making it 17-straight semesters on the list for the program overall. In addition, nine members recorded 4.0 GPAs on the year, 25 were named Academic All-Mountain West, while 21 made the MW Scholar-Athlete list for maintaining a 3.5 or better cumulative GPA. Ally Kleinsorgen led the Broncos in academics earning her second-straight CoSIDA Academic All-District Team award.

PRIOR TO BOISE STATE

Lieberman came to Boise State with four years of collegiate coaching experience at Cornell, Texas A&M and Occidental. He has worked with both men’s and women’s swim teams during his coaching experience.

Most recently, he was an assistant coach for the Cornell men’s swimming and diving program from summer 2016 to spring 2018 where he played an instrumental role in the program’s success in his first season.

Lieberman helped the Big Red to a fifth-place finish at the Ivy League championship in 2017, tied for the program’s best finish since 2009. In his two seasons at Cornell, 54 swims joined the school’s all-time top 10 charts, rewriting four records in the process. In addition, Alex Evdokimov won the 100 and 200 breast double at the conference meet in both seasons and earned a total of four All-America honors along the way with Lieberman assisting in his training.

Lieberman spent the 2015-16 campaign as a volunteer assistant coach for the Texas A&M women, helping the Aggies win the Southeastern Conference title and place fourth at the NCAA Championships. While assisting the Aggies program, Lieberman worked with three 2016 Olympians. The team produced 12 individual and three relay first-team All-America performances. The team’s 13 NCAA qualifiers tied for most in the nation.

While coaching at Texas A&M, Lieberman also assisted with the Aggie Swim Club. He worked in all aspects of training for a 25 swimmer senior group, including water and dryland training, technique and race strategy feedback. During his time, the club produced a pair of All-America performers and its first-ever Olympic Trials qualifier.

He began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Occidental College for one season in 2014-15, helping produce two All-America performances. His swimmers broke two conference and eight school records, and had six all-conference swims.

Lieberman has served as a coach at various camps and clinics, including two summers as a visiting coach at Stanford.

PERSONAL

As a collegiate swimmer, Lieberman was a four-time honorable mention All-American and two-time national qualifier at Claremont McKenna College. He was also a two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American, a five-time conference champion and an 11-time all-conference team selection. Lieberman helped CMC win four-consecutive conference team titles.

Lieberman graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2013 with a degree in neuroscience and earned his Master’s in urban education in 2015 from Loyola Marymount University.