Tim Kelly is in his fourth season at Purdue University as assistant coach for the men[apos]s swim team. Besides his on-deck coaching duties, he is also responsible for all recruiting.
Kelly had spent three years coaching at the Curl-Burke Swim Club in Damascus, Md. He also was the aquatics director and assistant manager at Sport and Health in McLean, Va., for the last year and a half. He attended and swam for Southern Illinois where he was a NCAA national qualifier and co-captain. He earned his bachelors degree in exercise science in 1990. He later returned to SIU in 1992 to take on the assistant coach position in charge of recruiting and earned his master[apos]s in administrative recreation.
A native of Aurora, Ill., Kelly resides in West Lafayette with his wife, Abby, who also swam at SIU.