With more than five years coaching experience at the NCAA level, Kosuke Kojima joined the Kenyon College staff in the 2022-23 season.
In 2023-24, his second season with the programs, Kojima helped direct the women's team to the NCAA Championship and the men's team to a national runner-up finish.Â
Kojima’s previous position was as an assistant coach at Tulane University, an NCAA Division I institution in New Orleans, Louisiana. During his four seasons there, Tulane had a couple of NCAA qualifiers, US Nationals finalists, and the team moved up to a third-place finish at the 2022 American Athletic Conference Championship.
Prior to Tulane, Kojima served for one year as a volunteer assistant coach for the University of Michigan men's and women's swimming and diving program. At the 2018 Big Ten Championship, the Michigan men were the runner-up, while the women took the conference crown. The teams went on to place eighth and fourth, respectively, at the NCAA Championship.
Prior to arriving at Michigan, Kojima spent eight years as the head coach and three-and-a-half years as the assistant coach of the Counsilman Center Swim Team in Bloomington, Indiana, while earning his master's in exercise physiology and doctorate in human performance. It was there that he first connected with Kenyon, working at the College’s annual Total Performance Swim Camp.
Before entering the coaching world, Kojima attended Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan and was a four-year member and team captain of the swim team. After a stellar competitive career that included winning the Japanese collegiate national championship title in the 200 IM, he returned to Chuo in April of 2001 and worked as a volunteer assistant coach for three years.
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