Auburn University Women's Swimming & Diving

Arilson Silva joined the Auburn Swimming and Diving staff as associate head coach in April of 2025. Silva arrives on the Plains after spending the past two seasons as part of the nationally-ranked Georgia Tech program. This season, Silva helped qualify three Yellowjackets to the NCAA Championships, including Mert Kilavuz who enters NCAAs with the 12th-fastest time in the country in the 1650 free, freshman Uros Zivanovic and Berke Saka. Silva’s coaching was a direct contributor to Anna Hadjiloizou breaking the women’s 50 free record. Jillian Ferrari, Vivien Rothwell, Kiah Smith and Clarissa Sabin also put Silva’s training to good use, breaking multiple relay records throughout the season. No stranger to international competition, Silva has coached athletes who have participated in every Olympic Games since 2008, among them Auburn legend and world record holder Cesar Cielo toward the end of his career. In addition to his Olympic Coaching success, Silva’s athletes boast seven world championship medals. Along with Cielo, Silva helped Felipe Franca become the first man to swim sub-27 seconds in the 50-meter breaststroke in 2009, setting the world record at 26.89. Andriy Govorov’s 50-meter butterfly world record (22.27), set in 2018, still stands. While in his home country of Brazil, Silva was a member of the Brazilian Swimming Technical Council and the Brazilian Academy of Coaches Olympic Institute. Silva’s experience also includes participation in the International Coaching Enric

Averee Preble, an All-American and Auburn graduate, returned to the Plains as an assistant coach for the Tigers’ Swimming and Diving program in April of 2025. Preble, a native of Clovis, California, swam for the Orange and Blue from 2020-24, qualifying for the NCAA Championships on four different occasions and earning All-American Honorable mention honors with a 16th-place finish at the 2023 championships in Knoxville, Tennessee. By the time Preble graduated, she finished her career as the fourth-fastest performer in school history in the 1000 free (9:38.53) and No. 7 in the 1650 free (16:02.99). Three of the top 15 swims in program history belong to Preble. She would also add SEC All-Freshman and All-SEC Second Team honors to her name before she left the Plains. A standout in the pool and in the classroom, Preble racked up three CSCAA Academic All-American Honors (2022, 2023, 2024), was a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024, 2025) and earned SEC First-Year Academic honors in 2022. Preble spent last season as an assistant coach at Indiana University Indianapolis. Under her guidance, the Jaguar long-distance and mid-distance freestyle group reached incredible heights across the 2024-25 campaign. Emmaleigh Zietlow set a Horizon League Championship Record in the 500 free, captured the conference title in the 200 free and set a meet record in the 200 free at the House of Champs Invite. Meanwhile, Nathan Rariden set the Horizon League record in the 200 fre