Randy Bennett

Randy Bennett (born (1962-06-09)June 9, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Saint Mary's College of California. Bennett has led the Gaels to a 304-145 record in his 14 years as head coach. Despite the dominance of Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference, Bennett has made Saint Mary's into arguably the top conference team with several 2nd place finishes and five NCAA tournament appearances, culminating in regular season conference championships in 2011 and 2012, as well as WCC tournament championship in 2010 and 2012.

Given this success, Bennett has been linked to several coaching jobs in higher profile conferences in recent years, most recently at California, Hawaii, Oregon State, Oregon, and Utah of the Pac-12.

Bennett is currently signed at Saint Mary's through 2021.

Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Saint Mary's, Randy Bennett was the top assistant at Pepperdine and St. Louis under current University of Washington head basketball coach Lorenzo Romar.

Randy Bennett (swimming coach)

Randy Bennett (1963 or 1964 – April 27, 2015) was a Canadian swimming coach who primarily operated out of the West Coast of Canada during his career. From 2009 until his death in 2015 he was the coach of the Canadian National Swim Team including during the 2012 Summer Olympics where his protege Ryan Cochrane won his second Olympic medal. Over the years he has coached several prominent Canadian athletics including World and Olympic medalists such as the aforementioned Cochrane, Julia Wilkinson, Richard Weinberger, Eric Hedlin, Hilary Caldwell, Marianne Limpert, Blake Worsley and many others.

Bennett was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and died of cancer in Victoria on April 27, 2015, at the age of 51.

Coaching honors