Nate Kellogg begins his fifth season as W&M's head coach for both men's and women's swimming in 2023-24, and is in his eighth year as a coach with the Tribe. Promoted in the summer of 2019 to the head role, Kellogg is the eighth head of the Tribe's combined program, as well as the 12th coach in women's swimming team history since 1965 and the 21st in the history of the men's team (dating back to 1928).
Kellogg has led the Green and Gold to a men's CAA title in 2020 and a women's championship in 2022. He was also named the CAA Coach of the year in 2020 and 2022. Under Kellogg, the Tribe has had a pair of women qualify for the NCAA Championship Meet (Missy Cundiff- 2022, Katie Stevenson-2023).
During his first three years at W&M, Kellogg assisted with all aspects of administering the Tribe's program as it grew in regional and national recognition, and had been primarily responsible for the coaching of William & Mary's strokes group. His athletes won six CAA individual event titles, and helped contribute to winning five of the six medley relay championships in men's swimming.
On the women's side, Abby Mack won the 200 fly as a junior in 2017 and Maria Oceguera won that event in her senior year as well (2019). Rising sophomore Anna Kenna broke the W&M freshman record in the 50 back at the 2019 CAA Championships, while her classmates Missy Cundiff and Ellie Henry also broke freshman records last year, in the 50 fly and the 100 IM, respectively. Kenna also broke the Tribe's dual-meet record in the 100 back during her freshman campaign, swimming 56.56 coming off the annual winter training trip. Overall in Kellogg's three years, the women's team have broken six school records in his event group, including the 100 back, 100 breast (twice), 200 breast (twice), and the 100 IM. Out of the pool, 2019 graduate Claire Williams (who broke the school record in the 200 breast during Kellogg's first year) was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was also named the 2018-19 CAA Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and CAA Women's Swimming & Diving Leadership and Sports Excellence Award winner. Williams was also a nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
For the men's team, W&M has broken 11 school records in his events in Kellogg's tenure, 10 of them coming in 2018-19 alone. During the 2019 CAA Championships, W&M broke the school and conference records in both the 200 and 400 medley relays, and juniors Colin Demers (100 back) and Ben Skopic (200 IM) both won conference titles. Their classmate Jack Doherty broke the school records in the 50 fly and the 100 fly multiple times, with Skopic (in the 100 and 200 IM) and Demers (in the 50 back) also adding school records over the course of the season. Kellogg has also helped guide athletes to multiple freshman records, including Skopic in the 200 IM, Doherty in the 50 and 100 fly, sophomores Jake Kealy (200 back) and Devin McNulty (50 and 100 breast), and freshman Steven Thalblum in the 100 IM, which was also the school record and the W&M dual-meet record when he swam 51.34 in October of 2018.
Kellogg came to Williamsburg in the summer of 2016, after a dozen years of excellence as Georgia Southern's all-time winningest head coach. Taking over as interim head coach shortly before the 2004-05 season, fresh out of his collegiate days at George Mason, Kellogg promptly led the Eagles to four-straight winning seasons and a 109-59-1 (.648) record overall. After taking second in the NEC conference in 2006-07, Kellogg led GSU into the CCSA, where they finished in third place each of his last five years, and were an undefeated 4-0 in conference dual-meets in 2015-16. Over that stretch, his athletes set 83 school records, had six NCAA qualifiers, and 133 total all-conference selections.
Kellogg's team also had a reputation of achievement outside the pool, earning CSCAA All-Academic Team honors every semester since the spring of 2007, and earning a total of 203 conference All-Academic honors. In recognition of his outstanding work, in 2016 he was named the CCSA's co-Coach of the Year for women's swimming and diving. A nationally recognized technical coach, over the last two decades Kellogg has consistently served as a camp coach at the University of Georgia working with youth and high school-aged athletes from beginners on up to Team USA-caliber swimmers.
His time at Georgia Southern was actually Kellogg's first job after graduating from George Mason in the spring of 2004 with a degree in communications. While swimming for the Patriots, he was part of some of GMU's very first teams, and helped build the program until it took second in the CAA his senior year. During his coaching tenure at Georgia Southern, Kellogg also earned his Masters of Science in Sports Management. He and his wife, Elizabeth, reside in Williamsburg and welcomed their first child, son Jack, in the spring of 2019.
