Lady Raider alum Erin Goodhart-Kurtz '04 will be an assistant coach for the Shippensburg University swimming teams during the 2010-11 season. Goodhart served as Shippensburg's interim head coach for the 2009-10 academic year while Tim Verge '89 served as the acting assistant director of athletics.
Goodhart has also spent three seasons as an assistant swimming coach at Kutztown University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism with an emphasis in public relations and a minor in English from Shippensburg in 2004.
As an influential instructor with the Golden Bears, Goodhart coached two athletes to NCAA automatic qualifying cuts and helped guide Ashley Singer to the 2008 PSAC Championship in the 500-yard freestyle. Goodhart's assistance with the freestyle swimmers was noted as Kutztown's swimmers broke school records on 13 occasions in these flights. Outside the pool, the women's swimming program was honored with national Academic All-American honors for the 2006-07 and the 2008-09 seasons.
Prior to Kutztown, Goodhart spent three years as a graduate assistant coach at Texas Christian University where she helped guide two athletes to NCAA Division I provisional cuts and was on staff for the men's conference championship that was achieved in 2005.
Goodhart is one of the most accomplished women's freestyle swimmers in school history. A four-time PSAC Champion with 16 NCAA Division II All-America certificates, Goodhart still holds school records in four of the six freestyle events. Each of those record-setting performances was set during a historic three days of competition at the 2004 NCAA Division II Championships, where Goodhart finished third in the 1,000-yard freestyle, fourth in both the 200 and 500 freestyles and ninth in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
A four-year all-conference swimmer at Shippensburg, Goodhart earned All-American status in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyles during all four of her competitive seasons. She won the PSAC Championship in the 1,650 freestyle during her junior year and as a sophomore, she won seven All-American certificates, including four marks in relay events.
Aside from competing, Goodhart has also been an integral swim instructor throughout her life. From 2002-2004, she was a swim instructor at the Shippensburg Aquatics Club and also assisted with the University's summer swim camp. In 2000, she was the swim coach for the Northwest Swimming Association where she created practices and training schedules and planned meet line-ups and strategies. Goodhart also volunteered in the Special Olympics Swimming program from 1998-2000.
A native of Reading, Goodhart graduated from Reading High School in 2000. This summer, she was married to Chris Kurtz.
