This study examined the current circumstances of coaches with paternalistic leadership from the varsity swimmers' points of view, and to compare the consequences that paternalistic leadership coaches trained swimmers of different background variables. The subjects were 386 university swimmers in Taiwan, and the self-designed ”Questionnaire of Coaches' Paternalistic Leadership” was used as the measurement for the study. Based on the collected data, through one-way MANOVA and Scheffe method, the results showed that, first of all, domestic university swimmers perceived their coaches with paternalistic leadership as the most desirable quality. Secondly, the university swimmers were more inclined to kindness leadership. Authoritative leadership was the weakest. There was a difference among the swimmers with different backgrounds in their perception of coaches' paternalistic leadership.