The only coach in the history of both the IUPUI men and women’s swimming and diving programs, Jim Shuck enters his 13th season with the women’s team and his 12th with the men’s squad.
Having built the Jaguars’ program from scratch upon the school’s entry into Division I, Shuck is the only head coach in IUPUI history to be named The Summit League (formerly the Mid-Continent Conference) Coach of the Year on four separate occasions.
Shuck has been named the Men’s Swimming and Divng Coach of the Year on three occasions, most recently following the 2005-06 season. Shuck also took home the honor in 2000-01 and 2001-02 while earning the women’s coach of the year award following the 2003-04 season.
In Shuck’s tenure at IUPUI, he has built the Jaguars program from scratch, achieving a top finish of second at the 2005-06 Mid-Continent Conference Championships on the men’s side of the pool.
The women’s team achieved a runner-up finish at the Mid-Con Championships during the 2003-04 campaign.
The men’s squad has earned 44 all-conference honors during Shuck’s tenure, while the women have picked up 32 all-conference selections.
During the 2008-09 season, IUPUI swept The Summit League’s Diver of the Year awards for the second time in three seasons as Jaron Tuttle and Chen Ni won on the men’s and women’s sides, respectively.
Ni went on to finish fourth on the platform at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on the campus of Texas A&M. Her prelimary round score set a pool record.
Tuttle took home Diver of the Year honors for the second time in his collegiate career, as he captured the award in 2006-07. In that year the Jaguars swept the diving awards as Elizabeth Scott was named Women’s Diver of the Year.
Shuck earned Mid-Con Coach of the Year honors in 2003-04 after helping the women’s team to a runner-up finish at the Mid-Con Championships, finishing behind Oakland.
The 2003-04 Jaguars also finished runner-up at the Eastern Illinois Invitational a month prior to the Mid-Con Championships.
Shuck picked up his first Mid-Con honor in 2000-01 after guiding IUPUI to a third-place result at the Mid-Continent Championships. Prior to the Mid-Con, the Jaguars won the Vincennes Invitational on Nov. 17, 2000, the program’s second invitational victory to that point.
That same season, the women’s team scored their first invitational victory, also at the Vincennes Invitational.
In 2001-02, Shuck repeated as Coach of the Year after pushing IUPUI to another third-place finish in the conference.
The following year would see the Jaguars pick up their third invitational win on the men’s side at the University of Indianapolis Invitational on Jan. 10-11, 2002.
Shuck swam collegiately at Indiana University, becoming a four-year letterman for the legendary Doc Councilman. Shuck received his Bachelor of Science with a degree in biology from IU in 1987.
The Indianapois-native earned his Masters Business Administration from Butler University in 1991.
Shuck is married to his wife, Suzie, and the couple lives in Indianapolis with their children, Anna and Andrew, who swim competitively for Roncalli High School and the Indy Dolphins.
