ALL ACADEMIC ATHLETES: 34

ALL CONFERENCE ATHLETES: 25

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2019: The Monks finished out the season at the GNAC championships with the Men finishing 6th and the Women finishing 9th. Two team records fell on the final day of the three-day event, as freshman Evan Whaley (Merrimack, N.H.) broke the Monks' 200-Fly mark and won the race with a 2:02.04 time and senior Emily Roy (Sidney, Maine) finished 12th with a team-record 1:05.87 effort in the 100-Back finals. Coach Felker would lead the program to it’s third individual conference champion in program history, and first since 2015, with Whaley winning the 200-Fly.

2018: The 2018-19 season came to a close with the men finishing 5th and the women finishing 7th at the GNAC championships. After GNAC’s both the Men’s and Women’s programs would have impressive victories over Gordon College at Senior Day. Coach Felker would then lead the Monks to the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association (NEISDA) Championship at MIT, where the Men would finish 12th overall and the women finishing 19th.

2017: Between both programs, Coach Felker and SJC swim posted an impressive eight wins on the season. At the 2018 GNAC Championships, both the men and the women would finish fourth, with three school records being broken with Emily Roy (Sidney, Maine) in the 200-Back (2:22.16) and 100-Back (1:06.57) and freshman Joey Christian (Scarborough, Maine) topped the Monks' 1650-Free record with an 18:53.98 performance.

2016: In his first season, Coach Felker would help the Monks finish 4th on the women’s side and 5th on the men’s side at the 2017 GNAC Championships. Coach Felker picked up his first victory at SJC on February 4th, 2017 when the men’s team defeated Husson in a 89-80 victory. 

Overview:

In September of 2016, it was announced that Jared Felker, a native of Yarmouth, Maine, was hired as the Men’s and Women’s Head Swim Coach and Assistant Aquatics Director at Saint Joseph's College.

Felker, a former NCAA DI swimmer at University of Virginia, has an impressive background as a club swim coach, having served as an Executive Director while coaching for the Seacoast Swimming Association in Dover, New Hampshire for the last six years and working as a head coach for Seals Swimming, Inc. in Westbrook from 2003 to 2010.

For the Seacoast Swimming Association, Felker was in charge of recruitment, retention, travel, and supervision of assistant coaches while developing a team-wide guideline for training and strategies for racing with a focus on senior swimmer development.

In seven years at Seals Swimming, Inc., he worked with the coaching staff to create specific training and racing plans for over 100 athletes, of all ages, and developed and implemented recruitment and retention strategies. His efforts helped the organization triple in size over a four-year span.

In 13 years in club swimming, Felker coached five Olympic Trials Qualifiers, 10 National Qualifiers, a Collegiate All-American, six High School All-Americans, a Paralympic Gold medalist and a World Record Holder. While at Seacoast, he helped the program earn a USA Swimming Bronze Medal Team Award four times (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) and coached an Eastern Zone Sectional Championship team in 2014.

Under his guidance, Seacoast was selected as a Top 100 USA Swimming program in 2015.

Felker also served as a volunteer assistant coach at University of New Hampshire for two years and, while there, created and implemented training and race strategies, with a focus on power and technique, for the Sprint Group.

“I would like to thank Brian Curtin and the Saint Joseph’s Athletics Department for this tremendous opportunity,” adds Coach Felker. “The Monks are consistently one of the top swimming programs in the GNAC and I look forward to building the program to its true potential.  I am excited to get back on the pool deck and get the season started.  Go Monks!”

As a collegiate swimmer, Felker earned a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) All-Academic honors and, as a senior captain, was an All-ACC selection in 2000.

Felker graduated from University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in the spring of 2000.