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Catherine Vogt, formerly a top-flight age group coach in the North Carolina club ranks, now enters her third year as a full-time assistant with the Tar Heel Swimming and Diving Program. A 2000 graduate of UNC, Vogt was hired in August 2005 and is excited about the potential of the program's 2007-08 campaign. Vogt is a nationally recognized coach. At the 2007 U.S. Open Water World Championships Trials in Fort Myers, Fla., two of her swimmers, Chip Peterson and Joe Kinderwater qualified second and third in the men's 10-kilometer race, making them eligible for the 2008 World Open Water Championships in Seville, Spain. Vogt has since been appointed the assistant coach for the U.S. team which will compete there. In the past year she has served as assistant U.S. coach at the 2006 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Naples, Italy; as the U.S. head coach at the 2006 Pan Pacific Open Water Championships in Victoria, British Columbia; as the U.S. head coach for open water swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and as an assistant coach for the 2007 U.S. men's swimming team at the Pan American Games. Vogt, whose permanent residence is Emerald Isle, N.C., was a four-year letterman as a Tar Heel undergraduate when she competed as Catherine Frock. Specializing in distance freestyle events during her career, she helped lead UNC to an Atlantic Coast Conference Championship during her freshman year. Her top ACC individual finish was a fifth place in the 1650-yard freestyle in 1996. Vogt studied education and psychology while at Carolina, earning her degree as a double major in May of 2000. She also earned a position on the ACC Academic Honor Roll and Dean's List at Carolina over a period of three consecutive years - 1997, 1998 and 1999. Vogt has been busy since the completion of last year's season with the Tar Heels, a campaign that saw the UNC women claim the NCAA championship. Vogt was the head coach of the 2007 U.S. Pan American Games open water team that competed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tar Heel sophomore Chip Peterson won the 10K open water event in that competition. She was also an assistant coach with the pool staff at the Pan Am Games, the first female coach named to a U.S. men's team staff at an international competition. Ink's Peterson won the gold medal in the 1500-meter freestyle at the Pan Am Games. For the second consecutive year she was an assistant coach at the USA Swimming National Select Open Water camp held in Ft. Myers, Fla. in May 2007 and coached a pair of swimmers to top finishes in the men's and women's 5K and 10K races. During the 2006-07 collegiate season she worked with the distance swimmers at UNC. The Tar Heel women placed 1-2-3 in the 1650-yard freestyle at the ACC Championships and the men placed 2-3 and finished with five out of the top 16 places overall in the event. At the NCAA meet in March 2007, UNC had two championship finishes in the 1650-yard freestyle with Whitney Sprague placing third and Chip Peterson sixth. Carolina also had two consolation finalists in the 500 free. In 2006, after attending U.S. Nationals with North Carolina Aquatic Club as an assistant coach, Vogt was appointed by United States Swimming as the head coach of the Pan Pacific Open Water Championship Team that competed in Victoria, British Columbia in August 2006. Her appointment as the head coach for a major international event marked only the second time that a woman had held such a position for any USA team. Vogt led the Americans to victories in the men's and women's 10K races and brought home the overall Pan Pacific Team Award. A member of the U.S. coaching staff during the 2005 Open Water World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Vogt earned a similar assignment for the 2006 Open Water World Championship Team that traveled to Naples, Italy, in August 2006. Vogt's personally coached swimmer Tar Heel standout Chip Peterson who followed up his 2005 World Championship victory in the 10K with strong 2006 performances resulting in second place in the 5K and 6th place in the 10K. In May 2006, she was the head coach of the Pan American Open Water Championship Team that competed in Salinas, Ecuador. Under Vogt's tutelage, the American men's team won the 5K and 10K and the women's team won both events as well. The Americans took home the overall team award at the event's conclusion. Prior to accepting her position at Carolina, Vogt's last full-time coaching position was with the Carteret Currents Swimming Club in Morehead City, N.C. She coached age group and senior swimmers that won medals at the Open Water National Championships, Open Water World Championships, U.S. Senior National Championships, Junior Pan Pacific Games, World Championship Trials, and U.S. Olympic Trials during her 14 months with the Currents. From May 2002 to September 2003, Vogt was an assistant and then head coach for the Meridian Swim Association in Meridian, Miss. She coached a six-time Mississippi state champion during her time with MSA. Vogt's coaching experience also includes a period as a head coach in the South Run Winter Swim League in Fairfax Station, Va., a stint as the head coach of the summer league team at the UNC Faculty Club, experience as a coach at UNC's annual summer swimming camp and time as a swim school program coach with the North Carolina Aquatic Club. Catherine's husband Matt is a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and flies Harrier attack jets out of Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina. An avid Tar Heel sports fan, he splits his time between Emerald Isle, N.C. and Chapel Hill. |
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