Becky Jager

Becky Jager

Rebecca Jager is in her third season as the Cougars assistant coach after spending the previous 10 years teaching at the University of Idaho and running Gold Medal Swimming since 1988.

Jager served as the volunteer coach for the Idaho swim team from 2004-11 and has owned and operated the Gold Medal Swim Club and Camps in Pullman since 2004. Jager, coached her husband, WSU Head Coach Tom Jager, during his training for the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games where he earned a total of three gold medals during those games.

Jager earned her PhD in history from the University of New Mexico in 2007 and spent the past five years as an assistant professor of history and a member of the American Indian studies faculty at Idaho. Jager specializes in topics such as Twentieth Century America, Sports History, Native American Studies and Gender.  She has been invited to speak at a number of seminars and has published several scholarly works, including Malinche, Pocahontas and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols released in October, 2015.