Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

The 2025-26 season marks Jenel Day's fifth year with the Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs, including her second as associate head coach. 

In 2024-25, Day helped lead the women’s swimming & diving squad to its sixth SCIAC Championship in nine seasons. Day was also part of the SCIAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year for the seventh time since 2015. She helped lead the team to an eighth place finish at the NCAA Championships. Under her tutelage, Valerie Mello was named 2024-25 SCIAC Athlete of the Year while Izzy Yoon earned SCIAC Newcomer of the Year honors. On the men's side, the Sagehens took second at the SCIAC Championships in 2024-25. Kyle Huang was named SCIAC Athlete of the Year, Tommy Matheis was named SCIAC Diver of the Year and Newcomer of the Year. 
 
The 2023-24 campaign saw Day help guide the women’s swimming & diving squad to a SCIAC Championship, its fifth conference title in eight seasons. Day and staff were also named SCIAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year. Day helped coach Bennett Jones to a conference Newcomer of the Year award and Alexandra Turvey to her third consecutive Athlete of the Year honor. On the men’s side, the Sagehens finished second in the conference championship while Kyle Huang was named SCIAC Newcomer of the Year. The women’s squad placed seventh at the NCAA Championship while the men took 15th. 
 
In her first year with the program in 2021-22, Day helped the Sagehens to a SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year while winning the SCIAC Championship on the women's side with the men earning second. Day also assisted the women's program to a 5th place finish at NCAA's. 

Day previously served as an assistant coach at BIOLA University and was a collegiate swimmer at Cerritos College and CSU East Bay.

During her time at BIOLA, Day assisted in BIOLA’s best seasons in the program's history. BIOLA placed 3^rd on both men and women at PCSC conference meet and also sent BIOLA’s first NCAA qualifier in history to Nationals. In 2021, BIOLA won the conference for the first time in program history on both the men's and women’s side and also sent three women to NCAA DII Nationals where they all placed top-10 in their events. Day also programmed dryland for all athletes throughout the year.

Day also coached at Brea Aquatics during the 2018-19 season and served as a graduate assistant at Concordia Irvine, which is where she attained a graduate degree and assisted in Concordia's men's team winning conference championships in 2019.

As a swimmer at CSUEB, Day was a part of Biola's swimming & diving conference, the Pacific Collegiate Swim & Dive Conference. She was a top-8 finisher at the conference meet both years and was a NCAA qualifier in the 200-freestyle, swimming the 13th-best time in the nation. She helped the Pioneers to a second-place PCSC finish in 2013 and was a part of a top-8 relay team at NCAA Division II nationals. Day was named the Pioneers' Athlete of the Year in both 2012 and 2013 and earned NCAA All-American honors in 2013.