Dave Durden

David Alan Durden is an American swimming coach, best known for serving as the men's head coach at University of California, Berkeley since 2007. With an exceptional history coaching Berkeley, as of 2023, he had led his teams to six NCAA Championships and eight second-place finishes in NCAA national competition, putting his teams first or second in NCAA national competition fourteen of his eighteen years as coach. As an assistant coach at Auburn University, he helped lead the Tigers to another six NCAA championships during his tenure. His Berkeley swimmers Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy, and Josh Prenot, have collectively won 15 Olympic medals, and at the 2016 Olympics, Durden's swimmers from Berkeley won eleven medals, including eight gold medals.

Durden was born on January 29, 1976. He began swimming around the age of eight, but grew tired of practices and quit when he was twelve, not returning to competition until he was a junior in high school. In 1994, he graduated from Jersey Village High in greater Houston, Texas, where he competed on their swim team, but did his primary training with Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club. In his senior year, swimming with an average high school team, he was the only swimmer from his school to qualify for and participate in the Texas Swimming and Diving State Championships.