Denison University

Kellen Beckwith returns in 2023-24 for his 12th year as an assistant coach with the Denison University men's and women's swimming & diving teams and his fourth year since being promoted to Associate Head Coach following the 2019-20 campaign.

In 11 seasons with the Big Red, Denison's men have won three national championships (2016, 2018, 2019) to go along with three runner-up national finishes and two third-place finishes. The women, meanwhile, have logged nine top-four national finishes, culminating with the second national championship in program history in 2023 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At the conference level, the men's and women's programs have combined for 14 championships during Beckwith's tenure with the Big Red. 

Beckwith came to Granville after one year as the assistant swimming and diving coach at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A 2011 graduate of Olivet College, Beckwith graduated Summa Cum Laude with a major in mathematics.  A four-year member of the Olivet swimming and diving team, Beckwith was a four-time All-American backstroker and three-time Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion. 

He was twice named to the NCAA’s Elite 88 and in 2011, he was named the Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year. That prestigious honor came after earning first-team Academic All-America® honors and four College Swimming Coaches Association Scholar All-America awards. 

On October 8, 2021, Beckwith was inducted into the Olivet College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2021 as a part of the college's Alumni Awards ceremony.

While serving as an assistant at Hope, Beckwith headed the recruitment efforts for the Flying Dutch program.  He coached five athletes to All-American status and one who was named to the NCAA’s Elite 89.

In December of 2015, Beckwith received his Master's in coaching education from Ohio University's Patton College of Education.