Coaching Excellence
Peter Verhoef
Peter Verhoef
Head Swimming and Diving Coach and Aquatics Director
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Peter Verhoef was named Head Swim Coach and Aquatics Director for The Bolles School on November 26, 2018. He has continued Bolles' dominance in state competition with the boys' and girls' program's their continuing state title winning streaks.
Verhoef brings with him a wealth of experience in national, international and Olympic competitions. For three years prior to Bolles, he earned acclaim as a Senior Coach and High Performance Director for SwimMAC , a globally competitive swimming program in Charlotte, N.C. There, he worked with the Senior 1 program – a group that includes the highest performing 15-18 year-olds – and also directed the program’s age 15 and over programs from state to national levels. Senior athletes from SwimMAC have achieved positions on the USA National Junior Team, won Junior National Championships, and recorded the highest number of scholastic All-Americans of any program in the country. Prior to that, Verhoef assisted in coaching SwimMAC's Team Elite program for Olympic level athletes from 2010-16. During this time, Team Elite athletes combined for a total of nine gold, four silver and one bronze. Throughout his tenure at SwimMAC, Verhoef helped guide strategic decisions including staff development, growth, team culture, member relationships and more.
Prior to SwimMAC, Verhoef was the Assistant Head Coach for Men’s and Women’s swimming at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, coaching elite swimmers from 2013-15. In this role, he experienced all facets of leadership from the pool deck--including coaching, recruiting, scheduling, compliance, administration, travel and outreach. During his tenure there, Verhoef greatly contributed in assisting the team to win the 2015 NCAA DII Championships for both the men’s and women’s teams.
As a student-athlete, Verhoef found success in the pool and classroom at the University of Georgia where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration and double majored in Management and Management Information Systems in 2007 from the Terry College of Business. While at Georgia, he was a finalist at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials and represented the United States at the World Championships in 2007 where he also served as the Team USA Team Captain and earned a Silver medal at the World University Games in 2005. He was also the recipient of UGA’s Jeff Poppell Leadership Award in 2006, among many other honors.
Gregg Troy
Help us honor Gregg Troy and celebrate his Bolles legacy. Depending on the total funding amount, we will include his name in a place of honor within the new pool area that will pay tribute to the many years of hard work, determination and success that he brought to Bolles.
Coach Troy made an indelible impact on the Bolles swimming and diving program during his time at the School. Troy coached the Bolles boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving teams from 1977 to 1997 before moving to further success as the head coach at the University of Florida.
Troy led the Bolles boys’ team to one national title, five national runner-up honors, 15 state titles (10 consecutive) and three state runner-up finishes. He guided the girls’ team to six national titles, 11 state titles (nine consecutive) and five state runner-up finishes. Thirty-four of his Bolles student-athletes went on to become Olympians including current UF men's head coach Anthony Nesty '87.
Troy retired as UF's head coach in 2018 after an illustrious 20 years with the program. He led the Gators to a women's national championship in 2010, eight Southeastern Conference titles among the men's and women's teams, 43 individual national championships, 177 SEC individual titles and 1,145 All-America honors. During his tenure, 47 Gators represented their nation in Olympic competition.
His Olympic legacy goes beyond his high school and college athletes competing. He served as head coach of Team USA at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and Team Thailand in 1992, as well as an assistant coach for the USA men's Olympic Team in 2008, the USA women's Olympic Team in 1996 and Guam's Olympic Team in 1988. He also served as a head or assistant coach for multiple international competitions including the World Championships, Pan-American Games and Pan-Pacific Games.
Troy's numerous coach of the year honors include six national and 10 SEC awards, as well as the 1997 U.S. Olympic & United States Swimming Developmental Coach of the Year. Troy was inducted into the FHSAA Hall of Fame in 2007, the Florida Swimming Hall of Fame in 2014 and was named an Honorary Letterwinner alongside the 2019 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class.