The Bryant University men's and women's swimming teams have enjoyed incredible success under the leadership and guidance of head coach Katie Cameron since the programs’ inception seven years ago.  The seventh-year bench boss will continue to lay the foundation for a stalwart program as she enters Bryant's final transition year before becoming postseason eliglble in 2012-13.

Cameron has been presenting her programs with challenge after challenge since joining the Bulldogs prior to the 2005-06 season and has led her teams to overcome each of them with skill, poise and confidence. After tackling her programs’ first challenge, turning the upstart Bulldogs into a swimming power in the Northeast-10 Conference, Cameron presented her teams with a new test in 2008-09 — competing at the Division I level.

In 2007-08, Bryant’s final DII season, Cameron coached her men's team to a 10-1 record, going 3-0 in conference, while leading her women's side to an undefeated 12-0 record. She also saw two swimmers, Tom Ferrigno and Jessica Looney, named Swimmer of the Meet at the 2008 New England Championships. Both teams finished fourth at the NE-10 Conference championships.

But with a new challenge at hand in 2008-09, the Bryant swimmers stepped eagerly into a new era of Bulldog Athletics and enjoyed immediate success under Cameron’s tutelage.

The 2009-10 season saw the young programs swim to its most successful season to date, as men’s and women’s swimmers set an impressive 39 school and pool records and sent a strong contingent of both men and women to the ECAC Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Bulldogs returned from the ECACs with 10 top-10 finishes on the weekend, setting 11 new school records in the process. The women scored 119 points to finish 12th at the 2010 ECACs, up nine positions and 101 points from their 2009 place. The men moved up the ladder as well, also placing 12th after a 15th-place finish last season. The year also saw the women earn six NEC All-Conference selections and saw freshman Casey Ostrander earn both Co-Swimmer of the Year and Co-Rookie of the Year honors. The Bryant women finished fourth at the 2010 NEC Championships.

That success carried over to the next season, where Coach Cameron continued to build the foundation of a program that will be as competitive as any other in the area once the Bulldogs become a full-time Division I team in 2012-13.  During the 2011-12 campaign, both the men's and women's teams captured six dual meet  victories, and saw impressive efforts at the URI Invitational.  

But neither Division I nor Bryant's future home in the Northeast Conference are unfamiliar to Cameron, who came to Smithfield, R.I. from current NEC-member Wagner College, where she served as head women's swim coach from 1997-2004.

In her eight seasons at Wagner, Cameron saw eight individual conference champions and coached a league-winning relay team. She led her squad to a second-place conference finish in 2002 and 2003 and a third-place finish in 2005. But it was her 2003 Coach of the Year accolade that was the real testament to her accomplishments. The Bryant women finished fourth in 2009-10.

Cameron was the first coach in the history of Wagner’s Division I swimming program to handle all coaching and administrative duties, as well as fundraising and budgeting. In addition to her duties with the women's swim team, she also served as the Wagner College Aquatics Director, overseeing all scheduling and staffing, and coached the women's water polo team from 2001-03, serving as water polo administrator during the 2003-04 season.

In 2004, Bryant University announced the addition of women's intercollegiate swimming and the reinstatement of men's intercollegiate swimming as varsity programs, effective in the fall of 2005. The addition of the programs brought the total number of Bulldog varsity sports offered to 22.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Cameron is a 1996 graduate of Syracuse University's School of Management, earning her Master’s in Education from Wagner in 2001.