Courtesy of Wayne State Media Relations

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Wayne State University men's and women's swimming & diving head coach Sean Peters recently received the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Certificate of Excellence for 2014.

Each year the ASCA honors the coaches who guide swimmer(s) to a top-eight finish at a USA Swimming national-level meet or a USA collegiate championship.

The award was based on his team's performance at the 2014 NCAA Championships where is women finished as the national runner-up and the men's program collected a third-place finish. Both Wayne State teams placed in the top three for the first time since 2011. The men's squad earned its best finish since that year and accumulated its highest point total (358.5 points) since the 2009 season. The Warrior women finished second to Drury University for the second straight year and finished inside the top two for the sixth straight season. The Warrior men have also finished as one the top three teams in four out of the last six seasons and placed in the top eight for the past 10 years. The Warrior women's squad finished with 419 points, 67 points behind Drury for the national title. The WSU men's team finished just 2.5 points out of second place, as Florida Southern finished second to Drury with 361 points.

The Warriors won six national titles at the NCAA Championships - five by the women's team and one by the men's squad. Wayne State also broke five national records and 11 school records during the four-day meet. All 23 of the Warrior swimmers and divers that competed in the meet earned All-American accolades. Nine different student-athletes -- Carol Azambuja, Till Barthel, Soren Holm, Piotr Jachowicz, Kristian Larsen, Elly Maleski, Gloria Martinez Perez, Kristina Novichenko, Kayla Scott -- earned at least five All-America certificates. Wayne State head coach Sean Peters was selected as the 2014 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Women's Coach of the Year after he led the women to five national titles and its sixth-straight finish in the top two at the NCAA Finals.

Peters led the women to their sixth straight GLIAC Championships and the men to a second place finish at last week's GLIAC Championships in Jenison, Mich. It was the ninth title in the last 10 seasons for the women and the men have either finished first (nine times) or second (four times) each of the last 13 seasons.

The 2015 NCAA Championship participants will be announced on Feb. 24. The NCAA Championships will be held in Indianapolis at IU Natatorium beginning on March 11.