UA senior Augie Busch, son of UA swimming coach Frank Busch, uses a large umbrella to keep dry during a rain storm at UA's Hillenbrand Aquatic Center during the team's swim practice in 1997. Photo by David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star 

Salpointe grad Busch leads Virginia swim team to No. 1 

Salpointe Catholic grad Augie Busch, who coached the Lancers’ swimming team in 1999 and 2000 and who assisted his father Frank Busch at Arizona from 2003-11, is coach of the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers in the first College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll of the season. Busch coached the Cavs to No. 5 in the NCAA finals last year. His staff is also Tucson-centric; ex-UA All-American Cory Chitwood and Augie’s brother, Sam Busch, are Virginia’s two top assistant swimming coaches. 


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