Steve Bultman

Steve Bultman

Biographical details
Born	circa 1949
Alma mater	Louisiana State University 1970
Playing career
1966-1970	Louisiana State University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1970-1975	Lynn Park Pirahnas New Orleans
1975-1979 1980-1989	Greater Pensacola AC
1979-1980	Nashville Aquatic Club
1985	Pan Pacific Games
1989-1990	Mission Bay Makos Boca Raton
1990-1991 1969-1970	Louisiana State University Asst. Coach
1991-1995	Dynamo Swim Club Atlanta
1995-1999	University of Georgia Asst. Coach
1999-2024	Texas A&M
1988, 2012	U.S. Olympic Team
1985	Pan Pacific Games
2001, 09, 15	World University Games Coach
2013	World Championships Staff
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 x Big 12 Conference Championships 4 x SEC Championships 2016-2019
Awards
9 x Conference Coach of the Year

Steve Bultman was an American competitive swimmer for Louisiana State University and an Olympic and college swim coach best known for coaching Texas A & M from 1999 through 2024 where he led the team to four Big 10 Conference Championships and four consecutive Southeastern Conference Championships from 2016-2019.

He attended Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where he won the State Title for Louisiana in the 50 freestyle.

Education

Bultman attended LSU, graduating in 1970, where he obtained a B.A. in Psychology, then received Physical Education certification from Tulane in 1975. He was an LSU letterman in swimming in both 1969, and 1970. Completing his education in 1979, he obtained an MA in Physical Education from the University of West Florida.

Coaching

Bultman's coaching history included a number of Aquatics Clubs, beginning with New Orlean's Lynne Park Pirhanas, the Greater Pensacola Aquatic Club, where he had several Olympians, Boca Raton's Mission Bay Makos, and Atlanta's Dynamo Swim Club.

For his first experience as a college coach, Bultman worked as an Assistant Coach at LSU from 1969-1970. He then directed the University of Georgia Swim Team as an Assistant Coach from 1995-1999. He would again Assistant Coach LSU from 1990-1991.

LSU

During Bultman's most accomplished and longest serving coaching tenure was with the Women's team at LSU from 1999-2024, his swimmers beat every standing school record. He led his teams to four Big 12 Conference team championship trophies, in the years 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. From 2016-2019, under his direction, A&M claimed four consecutive Southeastern Conference Championships. At the NCAA Championships, Bultman led his Women's Aggie swim teams to 12 top-10 team finishes, and coached six individual national champions, 80 All-Americans and an outstanding total of 16 Olympians.

Outstanding swimmers

Bultman had an exceptional number of his swimmers attend the Olympics for the U.S and other countries. He had three of his swimmers from Greater Pensacola Aquatic Club (GPAC) attend the 1988 Seoul Olympics; Beth Barr, Andrea Hayes, and Daniel Watters. Bultman had nine of his swimmers from Texas A & M compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in London; Cammile Adams, breaststroke record holder Breeja Larson, Triin Aljand (Estonia), Alia Atkinson (Jamaica), Erica Dittmer (Mexico), Liliana Ibanez (Mexico), Rita Medrano (Mexico), Kim Pavlin (Croatia) and Julia Wilkinson (Canada).

Honors

Bultman was admitted to the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2015, having been active as a coach since 1970. During his coaching career, he was a nine time Conference Coach of the Year, and had the unique honor of being named to the College Swim Coaches Association of America's 100 Greatest Coaches of the Century. Nearing the end of his collegiate coaching career at Texas A7M, he was admitted into the highly selective International Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2021.