Mike Smiechowski was named head men's and women's swimming and diving coach in July 2022 and enters his fourth season at St. Bonaventure in 2025-26.
He has led the Bonnies men's team back to the top of the Atlantic 10 as Bona's placed second at the 2025 A-10 Championships, the highest finish for the program since 2016. Under his leadership, the program has earned four CSCAA Scholar All-America selections as well as five Atlantic 10 All-Academic picks. On the women's side, nine program records have been established during his tenure. Both teams have been crowned with CSCAA Team Scholar All-America honors in each of the past three years.
Smiechowski joined the Bonnies after three seasons at the helm of the Alfred State men's and women's swimming programs. During his time at Alfred State, Smiechowski guided the Pioneers to their first three Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference Championships in program history. Alfred State captured the 2022 AMCC/Empire 8 Men's Championship, 2022 AMCC Men's Championship and 2020 AMCC Women's Champions. Smiechowski has earned multiple Coach of the Year honors, including 2022 Men's AMCC Coach of the Year, 2022 AMCC/E8 Combined Coach of the Year and the 2020 Men's and Women's AMCC Coach of the Year.
He helped his student-athletes to 32 individual AMCC Championships and 10 AMCC/E8 Championships while at Alfred State.
In 2021-22, he led the Alfred Sate to the school's first-ever undefeated regular season with a record of 7-0. He touted a combined 26-11 dual meet record during his tenure.
Smiechowski's teams were also successful in the classroom. The women's team earned College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Academic All-American honors in 2020 and 2022 while the men's team received the accolades in 2020.
Prior to his time at Alfred State, Smiechowski served as head coach of the Saint Martin National Swim Team and was the Director of Operations at the Carib Swim Club in 2018-19. He trained the first ever Saint Martin athlete to participate in the 2018 World Championships in Hangzhou, China. Smiechowski also spent time as the head afe group coach at the Coral Springs Swim Club in 2016-17.
He also has previous Division I coaching experience including stints as assistant coach and men's recruiting coordinator at Towson (2014-15) and Villanova (2013-14).
Smiechowski earned a bachelor's degree in criminology from UNC Wilmington in 2012, helping the Seahawks to four consecutive Colonial Athletic Association championships as a student-athlete and served as the team captain. He went on to earn a master's degree in higher education from Iowa State in 2013.
