Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- oquevedo@ia.ua.edu
- Phone:
- 205-348-0977
Ozzie Quevedo joined the Crimson Tide swimming and diving staff as associate head coach in June 2019 and served as interim head coach from December 2020 through May 2021.
"Ozzie has a wealth of coaching and international competition experience having represented his native Venezuela in the 2000 Olympics and was also an NCAA champion and six-time All-American during his collegiate career," UA Director of Athletics Greg Byrne said. "We appreciate him for his leadership and for stepping into the interim head coach role to assist in making the transition as seamless as possible."
Quevedo's first season as part of the Alabama staff was nothing short of phenomenal, with the Tide qualifying 24 student-athletes for the NCAA Championships, earning 57 All-America honors, winning a league-best nine SEC titles, setting SEC records in four different events and breaking 23 school records over the five days of the SEC Championships.
Quevedo also helped Rhyan White to a breakout sophomore season in 2020 that saw her win SEC gold in the 100 and 200 backstroke and set SEC records in both events as well as shattering the school marks in the 100 and 200 backstroke and 100 and 200 butterfly. She was the No. 1 seed in the 200 backstroke heading into the 2020 NCAA Championships before they were canceled due to the global Corona Virus pandemic.
"The University of Alabama is an amazing institution with a rich tradition of success," Quevedo said. "I am both thankful and humbled for this opportunity to coach in the most competitive conference in the nation."
Quevedo joined the Tide following three seasons as Florida State's assistant head coach. During his time in Tallahassee, the Seminoles made an impressive jump in the national rankings, going from 31st in 2017 to 14th in 2019.
Quevedo's tenure at FSU followed three seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Auburn (2013-16), where he worked with all groups, including the professionals who competed in the 2016 Olympic Games where he was a head coach for Suriname.
Prior to Auburn, Quevedo coached on the club and high school levels and was the head coach of National Training Center Aquatics in Clermont, Fla. where he produced senior and junior national swimmers. In addition to NTCA, he coached both the men's and women's teams at the Montverde Academy.
An NCAA champion, six-time All-American and five-time SEC champion, Quevedo specialized in the butterfly and freestyle and was a vital part of bringing home the Tigers' second NCAA title in 1999. In 2000, he was a part of the Tigers' NCAA champion 200 freestyle relay squad that set a U.S. Open and NCAA record that stood for four years. Quevedo graduated from Auburn with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 2004.
A 2000 Olympian for his native Venezuela, Quevedo swam the 100 butterfly and 400 freestyle relay in Sydney. He was the Venezuelan national champion in the 50m and 100m butterfly events in 2000 and set the masters long-course world record in the 50m butterfly (24.15) in 2009. He is also a two-time Pan-American Games medalist.
Quevedo and his wife Irene, have three children, daughters Victoria and Camilla and son Nicholas.
