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Brent Arckey

Brent Arckey (born (1984-07-29)July 29, 1984) is an American swimming coach, head coach of the Sarasota Sharks club (United States) since 2014, and CEO of the club since 2017. He is a member of the coaching staffs for the U.S. national team at the Junior World Championships and the Olympic Games.

Brent Arckey was born on (1984-07-29)July 29, 1984. He earned a degree in sports management from the University of Florida. He showed an interest in coaching from an early age, taking his first steps in the profession in youth summer leagues. He gradually built a career in leading swimming clubs in the United States.

From 2005 to 2010, Arckey worked at the Gator Swim Club in Gainesville, Florida, where he coached both age groups and the Masters category. Here, he gained experience that allowed him to move to a higher level of work with young athletes.

In 2010, he joined the Sarasota Sharks club in Florida. Since 2014, he has been the head coach of the club, and since 2017, its CEO.

Under his leadership, the Sarasota Sharks has become one of the strongest clubs in the United States, regularly winning youth and national championships. Arckey has created a sustainable training culture focused on technical excellence and long-term athlete development. In a 2023 interview, he emphasized the importance of "conscious volume," an individualized approach, and working on leg technique as the basis of swimming speed.

Since the late 2010s, Arckey has been actively involved in the coaching staff of the United States national team. In 2019, he led one of the groups at the Junior World Championships in Budapest, and later became one of the personal coaches of athletes who qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, including Emma Weyant, a silver medalist at the Games.

In 2022–2024, Arckey continued to train elite swimmers as part of the U.S. national cycle and participated in the selection for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Under his leadership, the Sharks club reached a record level in the number of athletes who made it into the U.S. national teams in age and elite categories.

In 2023, he was the subject of several major podcasts and articles in specialized publications such as SwimSwam and Swimming World, where he shared his training philosophy and strategies for developing athletes from a young age to world-class level.

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