Coaching Staff
Jos Smith
Associate Head Swim Coach
Jos Smith is entering his seventh season overall on the Utah coaching staff and is in his first season as associate swim coach in 2024-25 for the Utes. He is the primary coach for the program's middle distance swimmers and leads Utah's international recruiting.
Since Smith arrived in Salt Lake City, he has guided the middle distance group for the Utes and has sent 13 of his athletes to the NCAA Championships. Smith has coached eight NCAA All-Americans during his tenure at Utah, has seen his student-athletes achieve 19 school records and post a slew of US Olympic Trials qualifying times.
The list of Smith's pupils who've recorded new program records include Brandon Miller in the 400 IM and Evan VanBrocklin in the 200 fly and both student-athletes have also qualified for the Olympic Trials. Smith's coaching also helped Summer Stanfield reach the Olympic Trials and put up top 10 times in Utah history in the 200 back, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM. Another of Smith's trainee's, Norah Hay, reached the Pac-12 A Final in the 200 back, while Lily Milner, Isabella Riso, Marko Kovacic, Jakub Walter and Nick Chirafisi have all posted top 10 times under Smith's tutelage.
In 2021-22, Smith saw his 200-medley relay team of Andrei Ungur, Jaek Horner, Cooper deRyk and Finn O’Haimhirgin set a new school record of 1:23.62 to place 16th at the NCAA Championships and earn All-American honors. The Utes broke the previous school record just three weeks prior at the Pac-12 Championships. Later at the championships, the 400-medley relay group of Ungur, Horner, O’Haimhirgin and Ben Waterman also broke their own school record set just weeks before at the conference event, re-breaking the record with a time of 3:05.84.
Smith was crucial in Horner’s growth in the 100 and 200 breaststroke. Horner broke the school record in the 100 breast at the Pac-12 Championships in 2022 and would leave Utah as the program's record holder in the 100 and 200 breast. He would later achieve All-American status in the 100 breast at the 2024 NCAA Championships.
In 2019-20, Smith guided former Ute standout Audrey Reimer to school records in the 100 and 200 backstroke, while she went on to earn All-American honors after earning NCAA qualifying times before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Reimer posted the school records at the Pac-12 Championships to lead the Utah women, breaking the 100 back time that had stood since 2012 in the leg of the 400-medley relay and breaking her own 200 back time by more than two seconds.
Also during Smith’s second season, the Ute quartet of David Fridlander, Andrew Britton, Cooper deRyk and Liam O’Haimhirgin finished as the Pac-12 runner-ups in the 400-medley relay as the highest finish in program history in the event.
Smith joined Utah swimming for the 2018-19 season where he started his Utah career with NCAA Championship trips for Austin Phillips and Daniel McArthur, who he coached throughout the year, as well as three relay squads.
During his four-year career at Utah, Smith has led recruiting efforts by organizing and overseeing all unofficial and official visits, as well as manage CARA and RARA documentation for the program. He also has recently acted as the NIL liaison between his student-athletes and compliance as the NIL legislation has entered collegiate athletics.
Smith arrived in Salt Lake City after two years as an assistant swim coach and director of recruiting at Pitt. While working with the Panthers, both teams increased their point totals at the ACC Championships, breaking 17 school records in 2016-17. In total, nine Panthers advanced to the NCAA Championships.
Prior to his stint at Pitt, Smith was an assistant swim coach at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. In Wilmington, he coached all of the specialty groups for both the men's and women's teams, primarily headlining the distance squad. He helped coach four conference finalists and a school record setter, in addition to helping with recruiting efforts.
Before joining the Wilmington staff, he served as both a volunteer and assistant coach with the University of Georgia. With the Bulldogs, he assisted the 2014 national championship women’s team and the No. 5-ranked men's team in the country.
An accomplished swimmer in his four years at the University of Florida, Smith earned a bachelor's degree in Animal Science in May of 2010. In his time with the Gators, he led the team to a second place finish at the SEC Championships and a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships.
Individually, he competed in both the SEC Championships and NCAA Championships. Smith was a four-time NCAA All-American, two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree and competed in the 2008 Olympic Trials in the 50 and 100 free.
Aly Tetzloff
Assistant Swim Coach
Aly Tetzloff joined coach Jonas Persson's staff prior to the start of the 2024-25 season after two seasons coaching at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Tetzloff recently finished her second season at FGCU, where she helped the Eagles post a perfect 5-0 record in conference, then put together a performance at the ASUN Championships that saw them collect nine total medals. Tetzloff’s pupils reached the podium in every relay and one Eagle swimmer took gold in the 200 free and finished the competition with seven total medals, while the team took third.
Tetzloff joined the staff at FGCU after a phenomenal career in the pool for the Auburn, achieving All-American status 14 times for the Tigers in in a variety of disciplines, including the 50 free, 100 free, 100 fly, 100 back, and all three free relays. She was also named All-SEC in 2017 and 2018 and was a three-time SEC Champion, winning the 100 back in as a senior in 2019 as well as the 400 free relay in back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019.
Tetzloff has plenty of experience on the national level as well, having competed at both the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Trials, where she finished eighth in the 100 fly, as well as the Phillips 66 National Championships and the Toyota US Open. She has also competed professionally on the TYR Pro Swim Series as well as the International Swim League each of the past three reasons for the Tokyo Frog Kings in 2021 and the LA Current in 2020 and 2019.
A native of Crown Point, Indiana, Tetzloff graduated from Auburn in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Sports Coaching minor.
Brody Lewis
Assistant Swim Coach
A graduate of the University of Utah class of 2020, Lewis made his way back to his alma mater in time for the start of the 2022-23 season and is now in his third year on Jonas Persson's staff. Lewis spent one season at the University of Northern Colorado as the assistant swimming and diving coach for the women's program.
Brody has been Utah's primary coach for the breaststroke group over the last two seasons and also helped Jos Smith coach the long middle distance group in 2022-23. For the 2024-25 campaign, Lewis will lead the distance group, as well as dryland and breaststroke skills. He's been in charge of men's recruiting for the Utes since 2023. In 2024, he recruiting a signing class that was ranked 15th in the nation by Swimcloud.
He served as the primary coach for Jaek Horner during Horner's final two years in Salt Lake City. Horner left Utah as the school record holder in the 100 and 200 breast, achieved All-American status in the 100 breast with a time of 51.35, the first Ute to become an All-American in that event, and reached the US Olympic Trials in the 100 breast.
The list of swimmers who've added top 10 times to the Utah record book under Lewis' watch includes Landon Nava, Matt Wilcox and Finn O'Haimhirgin in the men's 100 breast, Baylor Lewis and Landon Nava in the men's 200 breast, Erin Palmer, Hilja Schimmel, Alyssa Sorenson and Anaelise Hedges in the women's 100 breast and Hilja Schimmel, Anaelise Hedges and Krystal Lieu in the 200 breast.
During his short time with the Bears, Lewis made an immediate impact helping the team break 16 school records and record 81 top-10 performances in UNC history. At the Western Athletic Conference Championships (WAC), Lewis was instrumental in the coaching of eight swimmers to winning a conference championship and guiding another 23 to WAC podium finishes.
Outside of the pool, Lewis assisted the head coach in both day-to-day and long-term operations. Lewis also directed national and international recruiting efforts, dryland programing and team building activities.
Prior to UNC, Lewis served as the head swim coach for East High School for one season and assisted the 11-14 age group with the Swim Utah club for three years. At East High, Lewis coached two of his athletes to win individual 5A State Championships. For Swim Utah, Lewis' expertise helped his athletes reach multiple Utah State Qualifiers, State Championships, Sectional Qualifiers and two of his athletes were named Junior National Finalists.
As a student-athlete at the U, Lewis qualified for the Pac-12 Championships in each of his four years and made the NCAA B Cut Qualifier in 2017, 2018 and 2020. He owns the fourth-fastest 200 breast time in program history as well as the sixth-fastest 100 breast time. In 2020, Lewis qualified for the USA Olympic trials in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke.
Academically, Lewis landed on the Pac-12 All-Academic Teams three times from 2018-2020 and was a CSCAA Scholar All-American.
A team captain for the Utes, Lewis was awarded the Utah Athletics Dr. Chris Hill Leadership Award and the Utah Swim & Dive Ute Proud Coach's Award. In addition, Lewis was a University of Utah Pac-12 SAAC conference male representative and the University of Utah's Crimson Council Co-President and Leadership Director.
Lewis hails from Greeley, Colo., where he attended Greeley West High School and was an All-American, Scholastic All-American, 5A State Champion in the 100 breast, two-time conference champion and three-time team MVP. A dual sport athlete, Lewis also competed for the cross-country team where he earned Second Team All-State honors and was tabbed All-Region twice.
Jordan Taylor
Assistant Swim Coach
Jordan Taylor officially joined head coach Jonas Persson's staff as an assistant coach in April of 2023.
Taylor works with Utah's super sprint group and is in charge of the program's women's recruiting. His coaching helped Erin Palmer reach the US Olympic Trials in 2024 and Palmer also owns the third-fastest time in Utah history in the 50 free. Taylor worked with the Utes' women's 200 free relay quartet that set a new school record in 2023-24, as well as with Reagan Cathcart, who logged multiple top 10 times that put her in the Utah record book. His hard work with the men's 50 free swimmers led to nearly all of them dropping time off their marks during the 2023-24 campaign.
Taylor joins Persson’s staff after spending seven seasons as the head coach of the swimming program at Carson-Newman University and during his tenure, he led the program to numerous milestones. The Eagles were nationally ranked each of his seven years there, placed inside the top 10 at the NCAA Championships three times and had over 100 student-athletes achieve All-American status, including more than 50 First-Team All-Americans.
At the conference level, Taylor has coached 19 league champions and finished in the top three at the conference championships in each of his seven seasons. He’s also seen 60 of his pupils named Academic All-Americans, one capture the NCAA’s Elite 90 Award and won Carson-Newman’s Director’s Cup in 2018 as the top academic team on campus.
Prior to his time at Carson-Newman, Taylor was the lead coach of the Warrender Baths Club, Scotland's most successful and largest swimming club. He coached a squad consisting of 19 domestic and international swimmers.
Competitively, Taylor garnered Scottish national titles in multiple events. He also swam for the Scottish national team during his career and was ranked the third-best swimmer in Britain in his main events as an age group swimmer. During his time at University of Edinburgh, the school's swimming program won the British university/collegiate team title at the national championship in 2010.
He earned his college degree at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with honors and with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Sports Science.