Anne Goodman James, who has helped produce 92 All-Americans, 28 national champions and countless NCAA qualifiers at five different schools since 1976, recently completed her second season as head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving teams at Colorado College. She also serves as director of aquatics and senior women's administrator for the athletics department.

In 2006-07, her first season at the Tigers helm, Goodman James guided CC through an impressive inaugural campaign as a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Both the men (3.225) and women (3.523) posted the highest team grade-point averages in the SCAC while earning repeat Academic All-America recognition.

A 1975 graduate of Texas Tech University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in physical education, Goodman James went on to coach the swimming teams at her alma mater (1976-80 and 1982-86) as well as at California State University at Hayward (1980-81), Northern Michigan University (1986-96) and the University of Arkansas (1996-2006).

While at Northern Michigan, where she also doubled as assistant AD for five years (1991-96), she twice (1988 and 1991) was named NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. She was named Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times (1990, 1991 and 1992) while with the Wildcats, and last October was inducted into the NMU Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 2007 class.

Goodman James, who also owns a master's degree from Indiana University, is a former president (1993-95) of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America and recipient of the CSSAA's prestigious Steadman Award for contributions to the sport and her athletes. She served on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Committee for seven years (1987-94).

She has made numerous presentations on coaching, training and Title IX legislation during her career. She also has written articles published in the NCAA News, Swimming World magazine and Coaching: Women's Athletics magazine.

The fifth head coach in the history of the Colorado College swimming and diving program, she succeeded Brian Pearson, who left CC in summer of 2006 to accept a similar position at Mesa State College.