Whitney Hite enters his seventh season as Florida’s associate head coach for women’s swimming & diving in 2024–25 (Sr. Associate Head Coach for both programs), bringing 26 years of collegiate experience to Gainesville. During his tenure, the Gator women have surged back to national prominence—setting double-digit school records, winning back-to-back SEC titles (2023, 2024), and finishing third at the 2024 NCAA Championships, the program’s best result in 14 years. His groups have produced dozens of CSCAA All-America honors, SEC champions, and relay school records while contributing to one of the nation’s top combined men’s/women’s programs.
Hite’s résumé spans many of the sport’s premier benches: head coach at Wisconsin (NCAA champion Drew teDuits; 100+ All-Americans), assistant roles at Arizona and Cal, and five seasons on staff at Georgia to open his career. Internationally, he has been a consistent presence with Team USA—men’s assistant coach at the 2012 Short Course Worlds and 2015 World Championships, and men’s head coach at the 2017 World University Games. He was also named to USA Swimming’s staff for the 2022 Short Course Worlds and served as a USA Swimming assistant/personal coach at the Paris 2024 Olympics alongside Florida head coach Anthony Nesty.
