Danielle Korman '06 returned to campus to start the 2023-24 academic year as associate head coach of the Kenyon College men's and women's swimming and diving teams.
Her presence immediately resonated with the Kenyon teams, as the women went on to win the NCAA Champioship and the men claimed a national runner-up finish.
During her four years as a student-athlete at Kenyon, Korman was a part of two NCAA Championship-winning teams and two NCAA runner-up teams. She was a seven-time All-American and a three-time event winner at North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship meets. She graduated with a degree in economics and went on to earn a master's degree with a concentration in guidance and counseling from Carthage College in 2008.
At Carthage, Korman commenced her coaching career as a graduate assistant and then as an interim head coach. She moved on to John Hopkins University, where she served as the assistant coach for both the men's and women's programs for four seasons.
In July of 2012, Korman was hired as the assistant coach of the women's team at Yale University, where she worked for three seasons and was a nominee for CollegeSwimming.com's 2013-14 Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. She then advanced to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become the head coach of both Engineer programs. In her four seasons at MIT, Korman's teams consistently cranked out top-10 finishes at nationals, broke 25 school records, and produced 71 All-Americans.
From there, Korman returned to the NCAA Division I level, this time as the associate head coach at University of California, Berkeley. In three seasons there, she helped coach 40 women who qualified for nationals and accounted for a combined 88 All-America swims, while two of the Cal teams (2021, 2022) produced top-10 placements at the NCAA Championship.
Korman decided to leave Cal in May of 2022 and returned to Yale, where she served as an assistant coach for the 2022-23 season in which both the Bulldog teams placed third at the Ivy League Championship.
Korman now rejoins the perennial elite programs at Kenyon, an institution that ranks first among all NCAA Division III institutions with 61 NCAA Championship titles. Thirty-four of those titles were won by the men's swimming and diving program, while 24 were claimed by the women's swimming and diving program.
