Schubert, Former Mission Viejo Coach, Takes Over Texas Women’s Swim Team

Mark Schubert, who turned the Mission Viejo Nadadores into the most dominant club swim team in history during the 1970s and early ‘80s, Monday was named the women’s swim coach at the University of Texas.

Schubert, 39, replaces Richard Quick, who resigned Aug. 14 to become women’s swim coach at Stanford. The Texas women’s team has won 5 consecutive national titles.

Schubert, head coach of the Mission Bay Makos swim team in Boca Raton, Fla., since 1985, said he had a “great situation” at Mission Bay, but was accepting the Texas job--and pay cut--because it would give him a chance to spend more time with his family and be a better coach.

“I was involved with running the aquatics center, I was involved with fund raising, I was involved with a lot of business aspects other than just competitive swimming,” Schubert said. “I enjoyed those aspects but I really felt that it was an untenable position to have to really work two full-time jobs.”

He also said he had given “a lot of my life to other people’s children, and it probably was time that I really concentrate a little bit more on my family and give a little bit more of my time to my own kids.”

Schubert has two daughters, Tatum, 11, and Leigh, 10.

“My wife told me that it’s time to find some place to call home--so that’s Austin,” Schubert said.

Schubert said he had numerous college offers while coach at Mission Bay and at Mission Viejo, but until now he “never felt the time was ripe.”

Donna Lopiano, women’s athletic director, told the Austin American-Statesman Sunday that Schubert’s contract was for a year at about $50,000 with an additional $30,000 or more from swim camps.