Bob Hauck is in his 37th season as the head coach of the St. Olaf men's and women's swimming & diving teams in 2025-26.
During his time leading the programs, St. Olaf has won 29 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Championships, with the men winning 16 and the women 13. Hauck has also led the men's team to 11 top-10 national finishes and the women to three top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships. All told, Hauck has coached six NCAA Division III individual national champions and 131 All-America swimmers and divers.
In 2009, Hauck and his father were named the NCAA Division III Co-Coaches of the Year for men’s swimming, and they have earned coach of the year honors from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ten times.
In addition to his coaching, Hauck was a record-setting and champion swimmer at the age group, high school, college, national and master’s levels. He swam at St. Olaf, where he was All-America 23 times, won seven national championships, set three national records and won the NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year Award in 1987, making him one of the rare persons to win both NCAA awards.
Hauck went to train for the 1988 US Olympic Trials in Santa Barbara, Calif. where he became one of the premier backstrokers in the country and was ranked in the top 25 in the world in the 200 backstroke in 1988. Hauck was a multiple senior national finalist and U.S. Open finalist. In 1987-88, he was a member of the United States Post-Graduate National Team. Hauck also swam internationally for Athletes in Action in the summer of 1989.
Hauck was inducted into the St. Olaf Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998, the Minnesota Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014, and the CSCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 2024. He was also honored among the CSCAA's 100 Greatest Men's Swimmers and Divers of the past 100 years in 2021.
A 1987 graduate of St. Olaf, Hauck received his master's degree in physical education, with a concentration in sports psychology, from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1992. Hauck spent the 1997-1998 season on a one-year leave where he was an assistant coach at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
Hauck lives in Northfield with his wife, Karna. They have two sons, Cully and Marcus, and three daughters, Signe, Tatum, and Josie.
