Former Wesleyan swimming & diving head coach Peter Solomon has been selected as one of 21 inductees into the 2026 College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of American (CSCAA) Division III Hall of Fame Class. Solomon led the Cardinals for 11 seasons (2012-23).
 
Solomon retired from coaching in 2023 after 34 years of collegiate coaching. He joined the Wesleyan staff in the fall of 2012 after coaching at both Middlebury (1997-2011) and Amherst (1993-97). Prior to becoming a head coach in the NESCAC, Solomon served as an assistant coach at UConn (1991-93) and Providence (1989-91) while he also spent a year coaching at the University of Vermont (2011-12).
 
During his 29-year NESCAC tenure, Solomon was selected as the Conference Coach of the Year nine times (1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2017, 2019). While at Wesleyan, his recruiting efforts doubled the size of the team in the final two years of his tenure.  Additionally, he was involved in fundraising efforts responsible for many of the recent facility improvements. Solomon worked closely with contractors and Facility Management personnel during the pandemic to help complete a comprehensive renovation of the natatorium. These facility updates continue to keep The Webster Family Natatorium a premier aquatic complex in the NESCAC and the Northeast Region.
 
Some of the coaching accolades that Solomon amassed over 12 seasons at Wesleyan include coaching 10 NCAA Qualifiers and bringing six women to the 2019 NCAA Championships, Wesleyan's largest Swimming & Diving team contingent to compete at NCAA's in the program's history. That year, Wesleyan hosted the 2019 Women's NESCAC Championship in one of the most amazing meets in Solomon's storied career, as swimmer-after-swimmer enjoyed personal best times which helped propel the Cardinals to a sixth place team finish, Wesleyan's highest NESCAC team standing ever. In that same competition, Caroline Murphy '20 won the 50 & 100-yard backstroke events and established the NESCAC record in the 50-yard backstroke while setting the Championship meet record in the 100-yard backstroke.  When all was said-and-done, nine new school records were established and Wesleyan qualified six women for the national championships.
 
In 2018, the national championship participants of Zoe Kerrich '18, Murphy, Hannah O'Halloran '20, and Grace Middleton '20 became Wesleyan's first relay team to qualify and place at the Division III NCAA Championships in over two decades. Their relay performance along with Murphy's All-American accolades in the sprint backstroke events helped Wesleyan to a 17^th place team finish at the NCAA Championships, Wesleyan's highest national ranking.
 
During his years as the Head Coach at Middlebury, Solomon's 2002 men's team dethroned perennial NESCAC Champions, Williams, to win the school's first and only Swimming & Diving Conference Championship. In 2010, one of his swimmers, John Dillion, set an NCAA Div. III record in the 200 butterfly and took top honors in both the 100 and 200-yard butterfly. John became one of five different athletes Solomon coached at Middlebury to win individual events at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. His Middlebury men's team were consistently ranked in the top 10 during his tenure and placed as high as fifth in 1999.

Amherst was Solomon's first Head Coaching job out of graduate school. In 1994, his inaugural season, his men's team pulled off the college's first dual meet victory over Little III rival, Williams College. His women's team compiled their own amazing feats, including a sixth place finish at the 1996 Div. III NCAA Championships.
 
The 2026 Hall of Fame class will be recognized at the CSCAA Awards Celebration, held during the organization's annual meetings in Chicago on Monday, May 4.