One of the most respected coaches in the world of swimming, Kenney led the Cardinal for 33 years before his retirement in 2012. To understand Kenney's impact on the sport, it goes beyond the seven NCAA titles or 31-straight conference titles, the 1086 All-America certificates, 134 All-America athletes or 72 NCAA champions. The three-time Olympic coach also produced 23 of his own Olympians, which won a combined 18 medals from 1984 through 2008.

His teams made NCAA history. No other team has finished fourth or better at every NCAA Championship from 1982 to 2012. And conference history, too. The 31 straight crowns crushed John Wooden's UCLA team record of 14-straight titles in 1995. Wooden was on deck that day to honor that accomplishment.

Individually, he was a six-time NCAA coach of the year and 20-time Pac-10 coach of the year. In 2004 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and in 2005 the American Swim Coaches Hall of Fame. 

Equally impressive is the fact that 100 percent of his athletes have graduated, including 10 which were Academic All-Americans, notably Olympians Pablo Morales, Ray Carey, Kurt Grote and Ben Wildman-Tobriner.

Under Kenney, the Cardinal was third or better in the national standings  27 times. From 1916 to his arrival in 1979, Stanford had won conference 31 titles. In his 33 years, he won 31. He won the first of three straight NCAA titles in 1985, winning another three straight NCAA titles from 1992-94. He won his last NCAA title in 1998. His teams finished as NCAA runners-up another seven times.

An Olympic coach as well, he was an assistant for Team USA in 1984 and 1988 and was the head men's coach in Atlanta in 1996. He was also a U.S. National coach at the Pan-American, Pan-Pacific and other world championship events.