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Coach Clayton Cagle has been with the Cypress-Fairbanks Swim Club for
22 years and has over 30 years overall as a swimming coach. During
his tenure with FLEET, he has seen the club grow from a small "mom
and pop" club into one of the model programs within the Gulf and
USA Swimming.
Coach Cagle coached athletes that have reached the highest
levels of the sport, with two former coached FLEET swimmers, Jamie
Rauch and Andrew Livingston competing in the Olympic Games. Coach
Cagle was selected to serve as the Head Men’s coach of the
2006 USA Swimming National Junior team that will compete in
Australia. He previously was an Assistant Coach of the 2001 USA
Swimming Goodwill Games team.
Coach Cagle was chosen as Texas Senior Coach of the Year in
1996, 1997, 2000 and 2002 and Gulf Senior Coach of the Year in
1995, 1997, 2000 and 2006, 2007 and 2008. He currently serves
as chair of the Texas Senior Circuit and is a member of the Gulf
Swimming Board of Directors.
Coach Cagle was an All-American swimmer at Drury
University. He began coaching while in college and after
graduation spent three years with the Jefferson City Swim Club
(1979-1982) with his first score at nationals in the 1500 in 1982.
He then moved to Assistant Coach at the University of Kansas, where
he spent 4 years. He was the coach of the 1983 women’s team
which placed 7th in the NCAA meet with American records that earned
hall of fame status for the team.
Coach Cagle has been married 25 years to his wife Brenda,
who is a volleyball and track coach at Bleyl Middle School. The
couple has two children, Kurtis, a student at Stephen F. Austin
University and Brad a junior at Cy-Creek High
School.
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