Ben Klimczak was hired as an assistant swimming coach and assistant aquatics director in September 2023.
For the 2023-24 Season, Klkimzcak helped send two individuals, freshman Akos Hajagos and junior Katherine Helminiak to the 2024 NCAA Championships. Working directly with Hajagos throughout the season, Klimczak helped lead the freshman to a second-place finish at NCAA's in the Men's 200 Yard Butterfly, the highest placement of any individual Florida Tech swimmer, men's or women's in program history. He also led Hajagos to earn two All-America honors as the freshman earned First-Team All-America status in the 200 Fly and All-America Honorable Mention in the Men's 400 IM. Klimczak helped, the Men's team also ranked No.19 Nationally in the CSCAA Top 25 poll for December and January's polls.
Klimczak comes to Florida Tech following his time as an assistant swimming coach with the Plantation Swimming Team in Plantation, Florida since 2022.
Prior to working with the Plantation Swimming Team, he was a seasonal assistant swim coach at Nova Southeastern from September 2021 to May 2022. While with the Sharks, he helped guide the men's and women's programs to the 2022 NCAA Division II National Championships where the women took home a 3rd place finish and the men's program recording a 12th place finish at Nationals.
An NCAA Division III Scholar Athlete, Klimczak was a three-year member of the swimming program at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana from 2017-2019. He managed to rank top 10 in four events in the Little Giants program record book. He is in the 100 and 200-yard Backstroke and 200 and 400 Medley Relay. At the 2019 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), Klimczak helped lead the team to its best finish in school history with a fourth-place finish and scoring 1093.5 points in the conference championship.
Klimczak, a native of La Porte, Indiana, received his Bachelor of Arts in classics with minors in psychology and history from Wabash College in May 2021.
