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| Peter Solomon | | M&W Swimming & Diving & Director of Natatorium | Memorial Field House
Phone: 802.443.5010
Fax: (802) 443-2073
Email: solomon@middlebury.edu
| | Alma Mater: N.C. State ‘85 | | Years at Midd: 13 | | | | View Full Profile | |
Solomon enters his 13th season as the head coach of the Panther swimming and diving program. As a head coach, Solomon has won 1995, 1999, and 2002 New England Division III Men's and 1996 Women's Swimming Coach of the Year honors. He also earned NESCAC men's coach of the year honors in '05 and '08.
Solomon is a past board member, but still actively involved with the College Swim Coaches Association of America. He has served as the past President of the New England Men's Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association, and recently became the Chair of the NESCAC Swim Coaches Association.
As an age group swimmer from East Providence, Rhode Island, Solomon finished first and established the record in the 200-yard backstroke at the 1979 Junior National Swimming Championships. He graduated from North Carolina State University in 1985 having qualified for the 1980 United States Olympic Trials and for the NCAA Division I National Championships in 1980, 1981, & 1982 where he finished as high as 15th in the 200 backstroke. In 1991, Solomon received K-12 teaching certification in physical education from the University of Rhode Island, and while at the University of Connecticut (1990-93), he earned a master's degree in sports management. He resides in Middlebury with his wife Andrea and their three children.
Gibbs begins her 12th season at Middlebury as head men’s and women’s diving coach. Since taking over the diving duties, Panther divers have gained national prominence. In 2001, Middlebury boasted its first NCAA diving champion in school history, Derek Chicarilli. Two years later, the women did the same as Tessa Truex captured a title. As a results, Gibbs was named the National Diving Coach of the Year in ’01, while earning NESCAC honors five times.
Gibbs competed as a collegiate diver and cheerleader for Syracuse from ’77-’81, where she earned her degree in nursing. After moving to Vermont, she began her coaching career at the University of Vermont as head coach from ’85-’96. As a competitive athlete and coach, she brings with her a wide assortment of experience to draw upon as she continues to lead the Panther divers.
As a mother of three, Gibbs balances her coaching responsibilities with her job as a neonatal intensive care nurse in Burlington, where she resides with her husband Scott.
Weinberg joined the Middlebury staff in the summer of ’08 as an Assistant Swimming Coach and Assistant Aquatics Director at Middlebury. Prior to his arrival at Middlebury, Weinberg was the Head Swimming Coach and a Physical Education Teacher for 12 years at Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois.
During his tenure there, he helped turn around a relatively unknown program of 15 female and seven male athletes to a successful, well-respected program of 50 to 60 male and 50 to 60 female swimmers who have turned the high-school swim team into a beacon program in the community. While at Pekin Community High School, he was selected to be the Illinois Sectional Coach-of-the-Year six of his 12 years. His teams won a total of 11 Conference and Sectional Championships in central Illinois, while he boasted 12 Illinois State Finalists and five High-School All-Americans. His girls’ teams posted a 94-33 dual-meet record, while his boys’ programs went 90-24.
Prior to his time at Pekin Community High School, Weinberg taught Physical Education and was the Assistant Swim Coach for his former high school coach, Corky King, at Richwoods High School for two years. In that time, he had the opportunity to coach many of the team’s senior and junior-national level swimmers, as well as one Olympic Trial qualifier, who later went on to have a successful NCAA Division I career.
Weinberg earned a B.S. degree from Southwest Missouri State University, and an M.A. degree from St. Xavier University. As a captain of the Southwest Missouri State University swim team, he once held varsity records in the 500 free (4:33), 1,000 free (9:30), and graduated with a record in the 1,650 free (15:50) and a a member of the 800 free relay team.
Leduc begins her 26th year at the college and 12th year as the men’s and women’s assistant swimming coach. As the assistant swim coach and assistant aquatics director for Middlebury, she is involved in every facet of the pool operations, administrative and on-deck needs of the swimming and diving program.
Leduc, who is a Red Cross water safety instructor, has helped facilitate most of the swim lessons and life guard training courses at the college as well as for the local Red Cross chapter for the past 18 years. She is also a member of the Middlebury Muffintop Masters Swimming Team. She lives in Ripton where she and her husband Marcel raised two sons.