Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University Department of Athletics mourns the passing of graduate and longtime swim/dive coach Tom Stubbs on May 25. He was 94 years old.
Stubbs graduated from Bowling Green with a bachelor's degree in education in 1949. He served his country during World War Two after his induction to the US Army in 1943. Following officers training school in 1944, he was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Force and served in the Japanese occupation.
In 1963, Stubbs and his family returned to Bowling Green to become the head swimming coach and served for 18 years as both the men's and women's coach.