University of North Carolina Athletics
Swimming & Diving
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- Assistant Coach
Kaylor begins his third year on the Carolina coaching staff in 2002-03. His primary role is assisting Head Coach Frank Comfort with practice management. Kaylor also oversees meet management of the Tar Heels’ home swimming meets, helps organize equipment needs and works in compiling comprehensive practice plans.
Kaylor also has major responsibilities as the Head Age Group coach for the North Carolina Aquatic Club, the U.S. Swimming club team based in Chapel Hill that trains primarily at Koury Natatorium. Under his guidance, NCAC has reestablished itself as a premier age-group program in both North Carolina and the Southern Region. He is a temendously well liked coach by all the age group swimmers from the youngest ages to the master’s program.
In the past two seasons, Kaylor’s swimmers made a name for themselves with one of the most successful seasons NCAC’s age-group program has ever seen. An impressive third place at the 12 & Under Championship marked NCAC as the club to watch in North Carolina swimming and in the process the club established itself as the “biggest” small team in the state. Most impressively, NCAC’s age-group team boasted a sixth place finish at the Southern Sectional Championships, a meet that encompasses over five states and 50 teams.
Kaylor, 26, had been coaching in Charlotte, N.C., for six years before coming to Chapel Hill in the summer of 2000. He was an assistant coach at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club for four years. At MAC, he was a part of four North Carolina swimming short course and long course championship teams. MAC also won three age group region championship titles and two Southern zone championship titles while he was coaching there. Kaylor was also selected as a North Carolina Swimming Select Camp Coach in both 1998, 1999 and again in 2000.
Prior to coaching at MAC, Kaylor was an assistant coach at West Charlotte High School where his primary responsibility was coaching distance swimmers. He was also the head coach for the Wellington Swim Club for two years where he produced two regular season championship title squads and a Triad League championship squad.
Kaylor attended King Mountain High School in Kings Mountain, N.C., graduating in 1994. He was the team captain on a pair of swimming teams that won North Carolina High School Athletic Association swimming and diving championships (1993 and 1994).
He is a 1998 alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he received a cum laude degree in political science.
