Tanica Jamison - Swimming & Diving Coach - University of Houston Athletics

Tanica Jamison

Position:
Head Coach

A proven winner and developer of multiple NCAA champions, Tanica (TA-knee-KUH) Jamison was named the eighth head coach in University of Houston Swimming and Diving history on May 27, 2021.

Jamison pushed the Cougars in 2025, maintaining the team's historic success with three swimmers heading to NCAA Championships and a third-place finish at the Big 12 Championship. She continued her mentorship of Henrietta Fangli, who captured the team's first First Team All-America honors since 1986 by reaching the A-Finals of the 100-yard breaststroke. Lottie Cullen and Virag Peter both reached the NCAA Championships as well while the team as a whole posted program records in six events and posted 75 B-Cut times.

Jamison continued the team's success in its first year in the Big 12. After tests in the regular season against #2 Texas and #11 Texas A&M, Houston claimed second place in its first trip to the Big 12 Championships, the only new entrant to the league to finish in the top three. She also mentored a trio of student-athletes who advanced to the NCAA Championships, including All-American Fangli, who finished 14th in the 100-yard breaststroke.

During the 2022-23 season, Jamison led the Cougars to their seventh consecutive conference title, her second with Houston. Jamison was named the 2023 American Athletic Conference Women's Coach of the Year.

Jamison's first season as head coach at Houston, saw the Cougars win their sixth consecutive American Athletic Conference and earned the 2022 American Athletic Conference Women's Coach of the Year. Jamison coached Mary Catherine Jurica to American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year honors.

Jamison, who has served as the associate head coach for the women's program at Texas A&M since 2016 and as an assistant coach since 2011 for the Aggies.

Jamison arrived at UH after helping the Aggies rise to one of the top women's programs in the country. During her time in College Station, Texas A&M won five conference titles (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Jamison helped guide Texas A&M to seven top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including a pair of top-3 finishes in 2017 and 2018 along with four straight fourth-place finishes. All of Texas A&M's swimming school records have been shattered since Jamison's arrival in College Station.

Jamison trained six Texas A&M student-athletes to NCAA individual titles, 33 SEC champions and 133 NCAA qualifiers since 2012.

Prior to coming to A&M, Jamison worked closely with the sprinter and middle-distance groups for the University of Pittsburgh's swimming and diving teams and also served as the head senior coach of Team Pittsburgh. In 2010-11, Panther swimmers earned five All-Big East awards and broke four school records.

An 11-time All-American and two-time NCAA Champion at the University of Texas under then-head coach Jill Sterkel, Jamison was the 2000 Big 12 Freshman and Newcomer of the Year, earned the program's Leadership Award in 2001 and 2002, was a two-time team captain. She was selected as the team's MVP in 2003.

Jamison has a long-time association with the National Diversity Select Camp, which began when she was a three-time participant in the mid-1990s and continued when she was invited to serve as a National Team athletic representative in 2007 and head coach in 2011.

Born in Monongahela, Penn., Jamison graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in applied learning and development in 2003. She earned her master's degree from Texas A&M in 2019 in sports management.