Chip Kline, an assistant head coach for the University of Tennessee men's swimming team for the past five years, was hired as an assistant swimming coach at the University. Kline replaces Bill Smyth, now the head swimming coach at Boston University.
Kline's past coaching experience also includes a stint at North Carolina State University from 1996 to 2000. There, he served as the associate head coach. He also spent the 1995-1996 season as an assistant coach at Allegheny College, located in Meadville, Pa.
Along with his assistant coaching duties at the University of Tennessee, he served the last four years as the head coach of Tennessee Aquatics, a United States swim club team based in Knoxville, Tenn.
Kline, a native of South Charleston, WV, attended The Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pa. There, he was a prep All-America Swimmer. He went on to swim at East Carolina University, where he received a degree in communications in 1992.
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