Arthur Albiero

Swimming for Oakland In his Sophomore through Senior years, Albiero swam for Michigan's Oakland University in Auburn and Rochester Hills, under Hall of Fame Coach Pete Hovland from 1993 to 1996. He may have also received some mentoring from Oakland's women's coach at the time and future Oakland Athletic Director Tracy Huth. While at Oakland, Albiero won an individual national title in the 200-yard individual medley and competed with 800 freestyle relay teams that won national titles. By his Senior year in 1996, Albiero was a defending National champion in the 200 Individual Medley and favored to repeat at the Division II NCAA Championship's that year. According to Albiero's Coach Pete Hovland, during Albiero's time with Oakland, the team went undefeated in dual meets two years in a row, and won the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference Championships (GLIAC) in two years as well. Under Coach Hovland, Oakland also won consecutive Division II NCAA National Team Championships during Albiero's time with the team from 1993 to 1996.

Coaching Albiero coached at Kenyon College and the University of Alabama where he was mentored by outstanding coaches before beginning his long coaching tenure at the University of Louisville.

Kenyon College In one of his first coaching stints between 1996 and 1999, Albiero was an Assistant swimming Coach at Kenyon College, a strong Division III program. At Kenyon, Albiero was mentored by Hall of Fame Coach Jim Steen. Enjoying outstanding success as a coach, Steen led the Kenyon men and women swim teams to an exceptional number of Division III NCAA championships during his tenure. While Albiero served as an Assistant coach, the men's and women's teams under Head Coach Steen captured six national championships, divided equally between the men's and women's teams. Albiero also worked at the club level, during this period, coaching a swim camp and an Oakland YMCA team.

University of Alabama Before his tenure with the University of Louisville, Albiero coached at the University of Alabama under Head Coach Don Wagner. At Alabama, Albiero also received occasional mentoring from Hall of Fame and Olympic Coach Don Gambril. Gambril was a former Alabama swim coach who was working as an Associate Alabama Athletic Director during Albiero's Coaching tenure. Albiero spent four years at Alabama, roughly between 1999 and 2003 beginning as an assistant for the university. He was Alabama's Associate head coach from 2001 to 2003. Albiero completed a master's degree in Human Performance Studies from Alabama in 2002–3.

In 2002–03, partly under Albiero's coaching guidance, the Alabama men's swim team, captured a twelfth place in national competition after placing fifth at the Southeastern Conference Championships. In 2002–3, the women took 15th place in the NCAA meet. Albiero, in 2010–11, led both the men's and women's swim teams to the Big East Conference title with the women taking their first conference championship. He led Louisville men's swimming to another Big East Conference Championship in 2011–12. The Louisville men's team placed second in the Big East Conference in 2015–16. In the banner year of 2019, the men's team finished fifth at the NCAA National, and the Louisville women captured a fourth place.

At another high point in 2022–23, Albiero's Louisville women's swim and diving team won a trophy by finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships. Under Albiero's reign, both the Louisville men's and women's swim and diving teams have had several years with national ratings in the top 20, and a few in the top 10. In the 2024 Paris Olympics, Albiero's son Nick qualified for the Brazilian team but did not compete. Swim and diving competitors at the 2024 Paris Olympics coached by Albiero at the University of Louisville included Israeli team member Denis Loktev, Polish team member Bartosz Piszczorowicz, Kyrgyzstani team member Denis Petrashov, Brazilian team member Murilo Sartori, and Ilia Sibirtsev who swam the 400 and 800 freestyle for Uzbekistan.

Albiero's son Nick was an outstanding swimmer for Louisville by 2020. An accomplished collegiate swimmer, and a member of the U.S. National team, he made the Brazilian Olympic team in the 200 butterfly in 2024.

Service to the swimming community For the London 2012 Olympic Games, Albiero accepted a position as the Portuguese Olympic coach.

Albiero married Amy Comerford on April 27, 1996, a former outstanding swimmer at Oakland University who has also coached and would become a member of the Oakland University Athletic Hall of Honor. Their children are Estefan, Nicolas, an accomplished competitive swimmer for Louisville, and Gabriela, who also swam for Louisville.