BERKELEY - With nearly 20 Golden Bears set to swim for the United States this summer in international competition, Cal will also be well represented on the Team USA coaching staff with the appointments of David Durden, Teri McKeever and Chase Kreitler to prominent positions, USA Swimming announced Wednesday.
 
Durden, Cal's head men's coach who will lead the U.S. men's team at the 2020 Olympics, will serve as men's head coach for the 2019 FINA World Championships July 21-28 in Gwangju, South Korea. Durden also headed Team USA at the world meet in 2015 and 2017. He is coming off a year in which his Cal squad captured the NCAA championship – the fourth national title of his career – and he was named the CSCAA National Coach of the Year and the Pac-12 Coach of the Year.
 
McKeever, the Bears' head women's coach, will serve as an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the World Championships, the seventh time she has been on staff at the world meet. The 2012 U.S. Olympic head women's coach, McKeever guided Cal to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships and was voted the 2019 CSCAA National Coach of the Year and Pac-12 Coach of the Year.
 
Kreitler just completed his first season as an assistant men's coach at Cal and will serve on staff at the World University Games, which will take place July 3-14 in Napoli, Italy.
 
Current and former Golden Bears who have qualified in the pool for the United States at the World Championships are Kathleen Baker, Katie McLaughlin, Abbey Weitzeil, Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy, Jacob Pebley, Josh Prenot and Andrew Seliskar. Sean Grieshop, Connor Hoppe, Michael Jensen, Trenton Julian, Bryce Mefford and Nick Norman will swim for the U.S. at the World University Games.
 
In addition, the U.S. will send a team to the Pan American Games July 26-Aug. 11 in Lima, Peru, and it will include Adrian and fellow Bears Madison Kennedy, Daniel Carr, Matthew Josa and Tom Shields.