Arthur Wang heads into his fifth season as varsity men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach. His teams have shown steady growth in his previous four seasons, resulting so far in a fifth-place finish by the women at the 2007 SUNYAC championship meet. The Blue Devil men, jumped up to a 5th place finish, 3 places higher than the 06 campaign. Noor El-Tahawy became the 2nd Blue Devil to win a SUNYAC title since Scott Horsington’s freshman campaign. Wang’s goals of putting Fredonia on the National scene have also been met with a pair of All-American citations for Kelly Sponholz and Honorable Mention citations for Horsington. Each performance resulted in a 31st place finish for the women and a 39th for the men’s squad.

A native of Ithaca, N.Y., Wang has 12 seasons of college coaching experience – including one season (1999-2000) as interim head coach at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, Calif. He helped guide the Sagehens to a 29th place finish at the 2000 NCAA Division III championship meet. He also served as assistant women’s polo coach at Pomona-Pitzer.

Wang, who also serves as director of aquatics, spent three swim seasons as assistant men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Washington University, a nationally prominent NCAA Division III program in St. Louis, Mo. The Washington men and women each finished 10th at the NCAA Division III championships during the 2002-2003 season. The two teams combined to qualify 15 student-athletes for nationals after each team finished second in its conference, the University Athletic Association. Team members were responsible for eight new conference records during the 2002-03 season and the coaching staff was named UAA Coaching Staff of the Year. Wang earned the added distinction of AFLAC National Assistant of the Year for 2003.

His first swim coaching job came at his collegiate alma mater, Ithaca College, as a women’s assistant coach from 1994-1999. During his final season at Ithaca (1998-99), he also worked as assistant men’s and women’s coach at Cornell University. His resume includes eight summers as a coach at the Stanford National Swim Camp, where he has worked alongside U.S. Olympic head swim coaches Richard Quick and Skip Kenney, and one season as head swim coach at the Ithaca YMCA.

Wang currently spends his summers working at the University Texas swim camp as the head counselor and assistant swim coach. At Texas, he continues to work alongside several Olympic swimmers and head U.S. Men's Olympic coach Eddie Reese.