Steve Duwel
Head Coach
Office - 479-254-9190 Cell Phone - 479-531-2722
Steve was appointed NWAA Head Coach January 1st 2001.
Prior to arriving in Arkansas, Steve was the assistant swim coach
at Northern Arizona University, a Division I college program
located in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Prior to that, he coached 10 years for club teams in Mesa, Arizona,
seeing great success with a number of Junior National, Senior
National as well as Olympic Trial qualifiers. Chandler Mesa
aquatics also won the Age Group State Championship meet in 1991
with Coach Duwel as the interim Head Coach. A number of his
athletes achieved state records as well as national recognition as
top 16.
Since his NWAA arrival, the number of swimmers has continued to
grow at a rapid pace going from about 60 to approx. 170
swimmers. NWAA has gone from worst to first under Coach Steve
with a state championship for NWAA in 2005, 2006 and
2007. Steve currently is the Head Coach for the
Bentonville High School Swim Team where the girl’s team won
the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 team titles and the
boy’s team has won consecutive titles under Steve
in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was also
named Arkansas High School Coach of the Year for 2005 and
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 as well as Arkansas Swimming Inc.
Coach of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2007. Additionally, he
acted as Head Zone Coach for the Arkansas Zone team 5 out of
his 8 years in Arkansas. Steve currently serves as the coaches
representative for Arkansas Swimming.
