Krista Traub joined the New York University men’s and women’s swimming teams as an assistant coach prior to the 2018-19 season. She is assisting Head Coach Trevor Miele in all facets of the program.
The 2019-20 season featured 26 team members earning 60 All-America honors, all qualifying for the NCAA Division III National Swimming & Diving Championships but unable to compete when the event was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Individually, senior Honore Collins and junior Sydney Catron led the women’s team with seven event qualifications, while senior Giorgio DelGrosso led the men with four.
The women’s team, which finished the season ranked #6 in the nation by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), tied its best finish ever with a second-place showing at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships as Miele and his assistants received UAA Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
The men’s team, which was ranked #14 in the nation by the CSCAA at the end of the season after having risen as high as #6 during the campaign, finished third at the UAA Championships.
Both teams were victorious at both the NYU Fall Invitational and the Ithaca College Bomber Invitational.
In addition to her seven All-America honors, Collins won five UAA titles and was named both UAA Swimmer of the Year and NYU Senior Athlete of the Year. DelGrosso won two UAA backstroke events and was named Co-Swimmer of the Year. Both student-athletes earned CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic All-America At-Large honors and were named CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. Freshman Jessica Flynn, who was a member of two winning relays at the UAA’s, was named UAA Co-Rookie of the Year and NYU Female Freshman of the Year.
In her first season as an NYU coach in ’18-19, the women finished a best-ever fifth at the NCAA Division III Championships while Collins won three national titles and was named National Swimmer of the Year by the CSCAA. She captured the 200- and 400-yard Individual Medleys as well as the 200-yard Butterfly at the NCAA’s and was also a member of three All-America relays. In total, nine women combined to earn 22 All-America honors in 2019.
On the men’s side, sophomore Elan Oumarov earned two of the Violets’ four All-America honors as the squad combined for a 28th-place national finish. NYU also produced both the men’s (Graham Chatoor) and women’s (Rachel Reistroffer) UAA Rookies of the Year. The men finished with a 4-2 dual-meet record in ’18-19, while the women produced a 3-3 mark.
Traub brought more than seven years of coaching experience to her position at NYU. Since 2009, she has been working as a private swim instructor and supervisor in Torrington, CT, training youngsters how to swim with proper technique in order to gain the best results.
Traub also has significant experience as a lifeguard, having worked in that capacity for five years in Torrington and three years at NYU’s Palladium Athletic Facility as an undergraduate.
A 2016 NYU graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, Traub was a four-year member of the women’s swimming & diving team. A two-time NCAA All-American, she also served two seasons as a team captain. While at NYU, Traub served as a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative, acting as a liaison between students and the school, and was an Athletics Transition Coach, helping freshman and seniors alike acclimate to becoming a student-athlete.
Traub’s work experience also includes years of nursing duties, including time spent in the medical-surgical, communal, pediatric, maternal, and psychiatric fields. She currently works for Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York LLC.
Traub is a native of Torrington and resides in Manhattan.
