Scott Cameron enters his fourth season as head coach of the Illinois State women’s swimming team during the 2018-19 season. Cameron joined the Illinois State athletics department staff in 2015.
In his first season at Illinois State, Cameron helped guide his student-athletes to six school records. Nine Illinois State swimmers and divers earned All-MVC recognition.
During his second season at Illinois State in 2016-17, he guided 19 student-athletes to top ten times in the Valley. These student-athletes include Rachel Root, who posted the third-best mark in the 100-yard backstroke and fifth-best time in the 200-yard backstroke. In the 50-yard backstroke, Rachel Holm ranked third and Jensen Keck ranked fifth. Keck and Holm also posted top-10 marks in the 100-yard breaststroke, ranking second and fourth, respectively.
Keeping up the trend, Cameron had 19 student-athletes with top times in the Missouri Valley Conference yet again in 2017-18 season. This includes Jensen Keck, who posted the top mark in the 50-yard and 100-yard breaststroke races. She also notched the third-best time in the 200-yard breaststroke and second-fastest time in the 100-yard individual medley. Other top placements come from Rachel Holm, who ranked second in the 100-yard breaststroke and fourth in the 50-yard butterfly. Karley Licking recorded the fifth-best time in the 100-yard individual medley and Savannah Rubocki posted the fifth-fastest mark in the 400-yard individual medley. Cameron also lead three athletes to All-Conference First-Team Honors in 2017-18.
Cameron came to Illinois State from the University of Idaho, where he served as an assistant women’s swimming coach, as well as the team's recruiting and academic coordinator, from 2012-15. Idaho improved its conference standing dramatically during Cameron’s tenure, as the team finished second at the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Championships in 2014. The team excelled in the classroom as well, consistently posting a team grade-point average well above 3.0.
In his three years with the program, Idaho student-athletes set 26 school records and won 12 individual WAC titles. Ten student-athletes met NCAA ‘B’ cuts and one qualified for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
Prior to Idaho, Cameron assisted the University of Michigan men’s and women’s teams from 2008-12. At Michigan, Cameron held roles that included volunteer assistant coach, manager of operations, and video manager.
Cameron also has coaching experience at the club level, with Club Wolverine, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 2008-12. He worked with swimmers of all ages at the club level, including Olympic athletes who competed for the United States, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Ireland and Serbia.
He served as head deck coach for Hillsdale College’s Nike Swim Camps from 2009-12, after spending time as a student assistant coach at his alma mater, Grand Valley State, during the 2008-09 season. Cameron was previously a member of the men’s swimming and diving team at Grand Valley State.
A native of Belleville, Michigan, Cameron earned his bachelor’s degree in 2009 from Grand Valley State, where he majored in movement science, with a concentration in coaching. He finished work on his master of education degree in 2014 at Idaho, with a focus in adult organizational learning and leadership.
