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Tamber McAllister

Tamber McAllister

TitleHead Swimming & Diving Coach
OfficeRB 149

Coaching Career

  • Named BYU swimming and diving head coach on May 8, 2024
  • BYU assistant coach (2021-24)
  • Utah Tech (Dixie State) head women's swim coach (2018-21)
  • BYU assistant coach (2005-18)

BYU Head Coaching Accomplishments 

  • Named Big 12 Women's Swimming Co-Coach of the Year (2024-25)
  • Coached Mackenzie Miller Lung to NCAA 200 Breast Runner-up finish, the women's program's first two All-America honors since 1990 and best finish (23rd, 29 points) since 1991 (2024-25)
  • Coached BYU women's swimmers to nine all-conference honors, 16 school-record performances, 47 top-10 times and 113 personal bests (2024-25)
  • Coached BYU men's swimmers to 10 all-conference honors, four school-record performances, 63 top-10 times and 119 personal bests (2024-25)

Coaching Accomplishments

  • Guided BYU men's swimmers to third-place team finish at 2024 Big 12 Championships with two individual champions.
  • Guided the Cougars to 24 all-conference finishes at 2024 Big 12 Championships.
  • Helped BYU men's swimming achieve a program-record eight overall and three relay entries at 2024 NCAA Championships.
  • Sixteen-year assistant coaching tenure at BYU includes nine All-Americans, 49 individual conference titles, eight team league titles and 37 school records broken.
  • Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2019-20)
  • Coached Utah Tech swimmers to over 70 team records.

Swimming Career

  • Competed at BYU (2000-04), specialized in breaststroke
  • Remains No. 5 all-time at BYU in the women's 200 breast (2:14.69, 2001)
  • Four-time Mountain West 200 breaststroke champion
  • 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials competitor in 200 and 100 breast, finished 12th and 27th, respectively

Personal

  • Husband's name is Eric. They have four kids, Emma, Marcus, Lilly and CJ.
  • Graduated from BYU with B.S. in exercise science (2004)

“All three years that I’ve been swimming at BYU, Tamber has been like my rock. She’s like my mom away from home. I don’t think I could’ve been able to swim as long as I have or compete as well as I have without Tamber. She really knows me, she knows what I need. She knows when to push me to make me better and help me achieve beyond my limits but she also knows when to roll back. Having Tamber as our head coach has been the best thing for our swim program.”

Mackenzie Miller Lung2025 200 Breast National Runner-Up
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Tamber McAllister on BYU Radio's Her Y