The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay named Eddie Gillie as the head coach in July 2020 after spending one year as the interim head coach and an additional year as an assistant coach with the program.
Prior to Gillie's arrivial at GB, he spent  two years as the head coach at Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina. He elevated the Saints to the men's best conference finish in school history, taking third place out of a field of eleven teams and qualifying swimmers for the 2018 NCAA Division II Championships.
During his time at Limestone, Gillie was crucial in turning the Saints swimming and diving team into a major conference contender. In the 2017-18 season, he produced an impressive 19 All-Conference honors. In just his first season with the program, Gillie helped his team earn 20 All-American honors between six members, including two First-Team honors. Limestone College's men's and women's teams were also named CSCAA Scholar All-Americans, in addition to five individuals earning the honor.
Prior to his success at Limestone College, the Haverhill, MA, native spent three seasons as an assistant swim coach with the Division III Saint Vincent College Bearcats in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. During his time with the Bearcats, Gillie assisted the head coach in all areas of the swim program, including recruiting, implementing a new dryland program into training, meet preparation, seasonal planning, and on-deck coaching.
Gillie was primarily in charge of coaching the distance and individual medley groups as an assistant at Saint Vincent College. From the 2013-14 season through the 2015-16 season, he oversaw 92 new school records and 20 individual conference championships while helping both the men's and women's teams to their highest conference finishes ever.
Before his stint with Saint Vincent, Gillie gained experience coaching swimming at the collegiate level at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as assisting the club team called Phoenix Swimming in Haverhill, MA. While he was at MIT, both the men and women were among the top Division III teams in the nation.
Gillie was a college swimmer himself, competing for Wheaton College in Massachusetts for four years. During his collegiate career, he broke three different school records and posted 12 top-10 times on the school's all-time list. He was also named to the Dean's List and the Scholastic All-American Team on three separate occasions. Gillie began his coaching career as an undergraduate, helping with the Magnus Aquatic Group in southern Massachusetts in 2009 before joining the Bluefish Swim Club. In 2011, Gillie graduated with his bachelor's degree in Psychology.
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