Conrad Kohrs, Jr. is in his first season with the University of Hawai‘i swimming program, serving the Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine as a swimming graduate assistant during the 2015-16 season.
Kohrs has led many championship teams, including the 1994 Hawaii State Championship team and the Maui Swim Club with Co-Head Coach and Hawai‘i Swimming Hall of Famer Spencer Shiraishi.
As the owner of ConKohrs Barracudas and head coach of Carmel High School in Carmel, Calif. for 17 years, Kohrs coached USA Swimming national qualifiers, junior national finalists, national high school All-Americans, three top-10 nationally ranked teams, 10 Central Coast Section league championship teams and some of the top age group swimmers in the country.
Kohrs recently completed 22 months as the International Olympic Committee expert coach in residence for the Federated States of Micronesia and was meet director for the 2014 Micronesian Games, on the island of Pohnpei in FSM.
Kohrs earned his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and swam for the NCAA Division III National Champions (1980-2010, ’13-’15) at Kenyon College.
He learned to swim before he could walk and understands that most performance for swimmers occurs naturally, at a neuromuscular and subconscious level. He is pursuing his graduate degree in creative writing and enjoys vibrant and
He previously trained an coached with Flip Hasset (Merced Skimmers), who went on to coach for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Water Polo, John Apgar (Palisades-Malibu YMCA, U.S. Swimming Coach of the Year at Nampa, Idaho and Jim Steen (Kenyon), the coach of 31 consecutive NCAA Division III championships—the longest run of titles in NCAA history, for any sport
Kohrs also served as a California State Lifeguard for 10 years on the beaches in North San Diego County; and continues to live as one who loves, and is devoted to the aquatic life.
