[2] On June 29, 2974, Huth competed in a regional Junior Olympic meet representing Yakima in the 11-12 age groups and placed second in the 100-meter fly.
[4] As a young competitor again at the Spokane Holiday Invitational Swimming Meet in July 1978, he swam for the Yakima YMCA, recording a time of 17:42.74 for 1500 meters, qualifying for that year's Junior Olympics.
[6] Huth earned a total of 24 All-American honors and 13 individual national championships during his swimming career with Oakland.
He was a four-time national champion in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley events and earned NCAA Division II Swimmer of the Year three times.
[8][9] Huth subsequently merited induction into Oakland’s Athletic Hall of Honor as a champion swimmer.
In one of his best coaching years, the 1994 Women's Swim and Dive Team was inducted into Oakland's Hollie Lepley Hall of Honor in 2024.
Under Coach Huth, Oakland's women swimmers finished the 1993-94 season with an 8-2 record, and captured a Great Lake's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championship and Oakland's fifth straight NCAA Division II Championship, which they won consecutively from 1990 through 1994.
[13] Nancy Schermer, an Oakland Senior in 1988, was a top swimmer for Huth while he was women's coach.
[16][17] Huth was elected to the Oakland University Hall of Fame twice, once as a swimming competitor and once as a coach.