By Matt Faulkner
(Hamilton, NY – Jan. 22, 2013) The 
Mark S. Randall Head Swimming and Diving Coach Fernanado Canales has announced the hiring of Fernando Rodriguez as an assistant coach for the Raiders.
Rodriguez joins Canales after spending three seasons at the College of William & Mary, where he was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. While with the Tribe, he developed training plans for the strokes and individual medley groups that included 18 swimmers. He also managed all recruiting efforts, including the online recruiting database and software.
“Fernando Rodriguez brings vast knowledge to our program along with nine years of elite NCAA, international and Club Coaching experience,” Canales said. “He is quality human being, an excellent NCAA recruiter and great stroke technician who will energize our student-athletes as they continue to succeed in academics and in the pool. Fernando has worked with two of the finest collegiate programs of all time at the University of Georgia and Kenyon College. During his recent tenure at William and Mary his student-athletes broke numerous school records and qualified for the USA Olympic Trials.”
He helped recruit classes that resulted in 26 rookie records and nine school records. Last season, he trained three Olympic Trial qualifiers. The Tribe had just one qualifier in the history of the program prior to last season.
Prior to William & Mary, Rodriguez was a volunteer assistant coach for the Athens (Ga.) Bulldog Swim Club for two seasons, while earning his Master’s in kinesiology. He first started his career in coaching at Wabash College in Ohio as an assistant coach in 2004-05. He organized all training plans and recruiting databases.
Rodriguez has a wealth of experience at swim camps around the country. He spent two summers at the Bates College Swim Camp in Lewiston, Maine, while also working at the Colonial Swim Camp at William & Mary. He was a camp counselor at the Bauerle Bulldog Swimming Camp in 2010 and at the Total Performance Swim Cap at Kenyon College.
He has had some global experience as well. He was a freelance translator in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He translated articles at the University of Sao Paulo from Portuguese to English. Prior to working as a freelancer, he was an account manager for TMO Global Logistics for a year.
Rodriguez is a 2004 graduate of Kenyon College, where he was a four-year swimmer and team captain as a senior. He won three NCAA Division III National Championships and extended Kenyon’s national title streak to 25 years. He was named an All-American seven times, while also being named all-conference seven times as well. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and comes to Hamilton from Sao Paulo.