2025 Mid-South Conference Coach of the Year Tricia Boggs will be in her second season as the head coach of the Shawnee State men's and women's swimming program.
In her first season at Shawnee State in 2024-25, Boggs was named as the MSC Coach of the Year after leading the Shawnee State men's swimming program to a program-best third-place finish in the MSC Championship Meet while also guiding the women's program to a fifth-place showing. In all, seven individuals (Abigail Bosler, Evan Bower, Tony Goodwin, De-Nicha Lewis, Katie McCafferty, Malik Nelson and Evan Siberell) out of the 25 swimmers between both rosters set an NAIA Provisional Cut, with Bosler and McCafferty qualifying for the 2025 NAIA Women's Swimming and Diving National Championships.
Boggs, who has also coached high school swimming, high school volleyball and club volleyball in the Southern Ohio area, spent seven years as a USA swimming coach for Spartan Swim Club and has coached high school volleyball for 15 years, including club volleyball, as well.
Boggs, who was a USA swimming athlete for eight years, has a lengthy family lineage in the sport that spans over a half-century. Frank and Anna Bruch, Tricia's grandparents, coached the Portsmouth Piranhas, while her father, Joe Bruch, coached high school swim, and her sister, Elizabeth Lewis, coached age group swim.
With Spartan Swim Club alone, Boggs has produced former Shawnee State swimmers Hanna and Josie Tackett as well as current SSU men's swimmer Evan Bower, and with Wheelersburg, Boggs coached current SSU swimmer Eric Green, who will be a senior in 2024-25. Shawnee State women's swimmer Emily Boggs, who competed for the Bears during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, also competed for Spartan Swim Club for her mother and will rejoin the SSU women's swimming program for the 2024-25 campaign.
Along with her swimming pedigree, Boggs, as an assistant coach, helped the Wheelersburg volleyball program establish a terrific run as part of a program that collected five consecutive Southern Ohio Conference II (SOC II) and OHSAA Division III Southeast District Championships in the pair's first five seasons together on staff from 2017 to 2021.
In 2019, Boggs aided the program to its first-ever OHSAA Division III Regional Championship, with Wheelersburg overcoming a 2-0 set deficit in its regional title match against Berlin Hiland to win and advance to the OHSAA Final Four. Wheelersburg ultimately won its first 27 games that year and ranked as high as third in the Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association (OHSVCA) Division III rankings. The Pirates ultimately went 165-16 from 2017 to 2023.
Family-wise, Tricia is married to her husband, Billy. They have three kids, Emily, Josh and Catie.
Emily, who played volleyball for Wheelersburg and played on that 2019 OHSAA State Final Four unit, also swam and participated in track and field at Wheelersburg. She has played volleyball at SSU and has swam for Emily at SSU, as well. Josh played football, soccer and was a swimmer at Wheelersburg, was named as an All-Ohio honoree in the former, was a part of the 2020 OHSAA State Final Four boys soccer unit at Wheelersburg and currently serves in the 82nd Airborne Division for the U.S. Army. Catie, who has been a standout for Wheelersburg in both softball and swimming, was a part of two OHSAA Division III State Championship softball units in 2022 and 2023 and one OHSAA Division V State Championship group with the Pirates in 2025, was a multi-time All-Ohio honoree in softball, and will play collegiate softball at North Carolina in 2026. All three were named as All-Southern Ohio Conference honorees in at least one sport.
