Editing Richard Quick (section)

==Coaching==
In one of his earliest coaching assignments immediately after college graduation, Quick coached Spring Branch Memorial High School in Houston, Texas, beginning in 1965, where he led the team to six state championships by 1971.<ref name=ishof/><ref name=AAS/>

After Assistant coaching at SMU from 1971 through 1975, and coaching the Women's team from 1976 through 1977 in its initial year, he had a brief head coaching position with Iowa State from 1977 through 1978, then coached both the Men's and Women's team at Auburn from 1978-1982.  He served as head women's swimming coach at the University of Texas from 1982 through 1988, where he excelled, leading his teams to five consecutive NCAA titles from 1984 through 1988.<ref name=ishof/>

===Stanford women===
While coaching the Stanford women from 1988-2005, Quick won an exceptional seven non-consecutive [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] titles in 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/swimming_champs_records/2012-13/2012wd1_swim.pdf |title=Swimming and Diving: Division I Women's |website=NCAA |date=2012 |access-date=4 March 2024}}</ref>  He developed 35 NCAA champions, winning five CSCAA Coach of the Year honors and three [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-10]] Coach of the Year awards.<ref name=ishof/>

At the 2000 [[Sydney]] Olympics he led the women's team to sixteen medals. His most successful swimmer was Stanford competitor [[Jenny Thompson]], who won ten Olympic Golds. Other notable Olympians coached by Quick include Auburn swimmer [[Rowdy Gaines|Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines]], Texas swimmers [[Tiffany Cohen]], and [[Jill Sterkel]] and Stanford swimmers [[Summer Sanders]], [[Misty Hyman]], [[Lea Loveless]], [[Catherine Fox]], and [[Lisa Jacob]].  He also helped train [[Dara Torres]] and [[Steve Lundquist]] for Olympic competition.  Jill Sterkel would later coach the University of Texas Women's Team from 1993 through 2006.<ref name=Sterkel>{{cite web |url=https://swimswam.com/jill-sterkel-ut-coach-and-swimmer-joins-texas-sports-hall-of-fame/|title=Carlson, Reid, Jill Sterkel, UT Coach and Swimmer Joins Texas Sports Hall of Fame |website=swimswam.com|date=2018 |access-date=4 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/swimming_champs_records/2012-13/2012wd1_swim.pdf |title=Swimming and Diving: Division I Women's |website=NCAA |date=2012 |access-date=4 March 2024}}</ref>  His Olympic athletes brought home an impressive total of 59 Olympic medals.<ref name=StanMag/>

===Auburn===
During his initial stint at Auburn from 1978-1982, Quick led the Auburn University Tigers Mens and Women's team to four national top ten finishes.<ref name=AAS/>  On March 8, 2007, Auburn University announced that Quick would return to the Tigers to take over as head coach for the swimming and diving teams after [[David Marsh (swimming coach)|David Marsh]] left.  Quick was Marsh's coach when he was a backstroker for [[Auburn Tigers|Auburn]].  In March 2007 Marsh won his 12th NCAA National title, tying his former coach and mentor for the most (Division I) titles won by an NCAA Coach. Quick broke the tie the following year, winning a 13th title while coaching at Auburn.<ref name=ishof/>

===Honors===
Quick is a member of SMU's Distinguished Alumni. In 2000 he was inducted into the [[International Swimming Hall of Fame]].  He was a three time American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCAA) Coach of the Year and a five time NCAA Coach of the Year.<ref name=ishof>{{cite web |url=https://ishof.org/richard-quick.html |title=Richard Quick |website=ISHOF.org |publisher=[[International Swimming Hall of Fame]] |access-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-date=July 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708102619/https://ishof.org/richard-quick.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Quick initially retired to Austin in 2005, but in 2007 came out of retirement to coach Auburn.  In December 2008 Quick was diagnosed with an inoperable [[brain tumor]]. He died on the evening of June 10, 2009 in Austin, Texas.<ref name=obit>[http://www.wrbl.com/rbl/sports/college/article/richard_quick_passes_away/75792/ Richard Quick Passes Away]. wrbl.com (June 11, 2009) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619090740/http://www.wrbl.com/rbl/sports/college/article/richard_quick_passes_away/75792/ |date=June 19, 2009 }} [[WRBL]] – Retrieved on June 11, 2009</ref><ref name=r1/> His 2008–09 Auburn team won the NCAA National title in March, 2009.<ref name=ishof/><ref name=Death>Maher, John, "Former Longhorns Swim Coach Built Dynasty", ''Austin-American Statesman'', Austin, Texas, 12 June 2009, pg. 30</ref>