Nate Kellogg is in his seventh season as William & Mary head coach for both men's and women's swimming in 2025-26 and his 10th year as a coach with the Tribe. Promoted to the head role in the summer of 2019, Kellogg is the eighth head of the Tribe's combined program, as well as the 12th coach in women's swimming team history and the 21st in the history of the men's team.
Since taking over as head coach, Kellogg has led the Tribe to three CAA Championships, including a men's title in 2020 and women's championships in 2022 and 2026. He is a five-time CAA Swimming Coach of the Year. Under his stewardship, the Tribe has produced 41 combined conference champions, three CAA Swimmers of the Year, and one CAA Rookie of the Year. It has also had a pair of women qualify for the NCAA Championships in Missy Cundiff (2022) and Katie Stevenson (2023).
In Kellogg's seven seasons, W&M has a 68-46 record (.596) in dual meets.
The 2025-26 campaign saw the Tribe women's team win the CAA Championship for the first time since 2022 while setting the championship record for points with 1,647. W&M had six conference champions on the women's side, including the 400 free relay team composed of Flynn Truskett, Ellie Hunt, Haley Lehman, and Caroline Burgeson, which broke a school and CAA record with a time of 3:17.39. The Tribe had seven combined conference champions and 32 medalists while breaking 10 school records during the season. On the men's side, Aiden Bond won a conference championship in the 200 free and racked up five total medals in individual and relay events.
In 2024-25, the Tribe women's team finished runner-up at the CAA Championships and secured eight individual gold medals. Five school records were broken, led by the 200 medley relay team of Julie Addison, Ellie Scherer, Lindsay Juhlin, and Caroline Burgeson, who shattered a then-CAA record with a time of 1:38.48. In total, 17 Tribe men's and women's swimmers were podium finishers.
Kellogg led the Green & Gold to a CAA women's title in 2022, the first on the women's side since 2017. The Tribe had six conference champions at the meet, with NCAA qualifier Missy Cundiff winning gold and setting a meet record in the 50 free. Cundiff finished her career as one of the most decorated sprinters in W&M history, as she still owns the school record in the 50 free and a pair of freshman records, along with posting an 18th-place finish in the 50 free at the NCAA Championships, the best finish by a Tribe women's swimmer in program history.
Katie Stevenson qualified for the NCAA Championship ithe following year in the 50 free, 100 free, and 200 free, marking the first time ever the Tribe had NCAA qualifiers in consecutive seasons.
Since taking over as head coach in 2019-20, the Tribe women have finished first or second at the CAA Championship in all but one year. Seventeen women's records have been broken in that time, in addition to five freshman records. Outside the pool, 2019 graduate Claire Williams was 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 15 school records in his events in Kellogg's tenure in addition to five freshman records. In 2020, the Tribe men won the CAA Championship for the sixth consecutive season, with 14 gold medals including a sweep of all five relay events, all of which were conference records. Kellogg and his staff were named the CAA Men's Swimming Coaches of the Year as it marked the first time since 1994 that a first-year head coach led his team to the CAA Championship. Senior Colin Wright was named the Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Championships, winning all seven of his events for the second year in a row. Wright was named an All-American by the CSCAA in both the 50 free and the 100 free after the NCAA Championships were cancelled due to Covid-19.
Kellogg came to Williamsburg in the summer of 2016 after a dozen years at Georgia Southern where he left as the school's all-time winningest head coach. Taking over as interim head coach shortly before the 2004-05 season, following 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 placing second in the Northeast Conference (NEC) 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 earned 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.
Kellogg graduated 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, helping 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, Jack, in the spring of 2019.
