Mike Swider
{{Short description|American football coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mike Swider
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|5|26}}
| birth_place = Illinois, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| coach_years1 = 1977
| coach_years2 = 1978–1984
| coach_team2 = Westminster HS (GA)
| coach_years3 = 1985–1996
| coach_team3 = Wheaton (IL) (DC)
| coach_years4 = 1996–2019
| coach_team4 = Wheaton (IL)
| overall_record = 209–52
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record = 15–10 (NCAA D-III playoffs)
| championships = 9 CCIW (2000, 2002–2004, 2006, 2012, 2014–2015, 2019)
Georgia Class 3A (1978)
| awards = 7× CCIW Coach of the Year (2002, 2002–2003, 2006, 2014–2015, 2019)
| coaching_records =
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Mike Swider (born May 26, 1955) is a former American football coach. He served as head football coach at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois from 1996 to 2019. Swider's Wheaton teams won nine conference titles and made 10 appearances in the NCAA Division III Football Championship. In each of their first five appearances, they were eliminated from the tournament by Larry Kehres's Mount Union Purple Raiders.
Swider's coaching record at Wheaton was 209–52. He had the most wins and highest winning percentage ({{Winning percentage|209|52}}) of any coach in program history.{{Cite web
|last=DeLassus
|first=David
|title=Wheaton Thunder Records By Year
|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse
|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/cciw/wheaton/coaching_records.php
|accessdate=March 20, 2013
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729150035/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/cciw/wheaton/coaching_records.php
|archivedate=July 29, 2014
}} Swider announced his retirement on December 10, 2019.{{cite news |last=Schartz |first=Orrin |title=Wheaton College football coach Swider announces retirement |url=https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20191210/wheaton-college-football-coach-swider-announces-retirement |newspaper=Daily Herald |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |date=December 10, 2019 |access-date=December 10, 2019 }}
Head coaching record
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Wheaton Crusaders/Thunder
| conf = College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
| startyear = 1996
| endyear = 2019
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1996
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–1
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = 2nd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1997
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 4–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
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| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1998
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
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| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1999
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
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| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2000
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = T–1st
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2001
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = T–3rd
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2002
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 10–2
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2003
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 12–1
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Quarterfinal
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2004
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 10–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2005
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 4–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2006
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 10–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2007
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = 3rd
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2008
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 11–3
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Semifinal
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2009
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 4–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2010
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 10–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2011
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2012
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2013
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2014
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 11–1
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2015
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 11–1
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Second Round
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2016
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 11–2
| conference = 7–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Quarterfinal
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2017
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 6–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 2018
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 7–2
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 2019
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 12–1
| conference = 9–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = NCAA Division III Quarterfinal
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Wheaton
| overall = 209–52
| confrecord = 140–34
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 209–52
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
See also
References
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