Andrew Eaton Named Assistant Swimming Coach and Assistant Director of Aquatics

CHICAGO, Ill. — The University of Chicago males’s and ladies’s swimming diving groups have named Andrew Eaton as its new Assistant Swimming Coach and Assistant Director of Aquatics, efficient August 1, 2025.

Eaton joins the University of Chicago swimming & diving teaching workers with a wide-ranging background in collegiate and membership teaching, athlete growth, and efficiency technique. He was named assistant coach after impactful stops at a number of NCAA establishments and brings with him a confirmed report of aggressive and developmental success.

Eaton most lately served as assistant coach on the University of South Carolina, the place he was promoted from volunteer assistant in 2021 to full-time assistant coach in 2022. During his tenure, South Carolina achieved constant enhancements at each the SEC Championships and NCAA Championships. Under his steering, this system elevated its NCAA qualifiers from two to eight in simply three seasons, whereas climbing from eleventh to seventh place at SECs. In 2024, two ladies scored within the finals at NCAAs—one other milestone for the Gamecocks. Eaton coached quite a few SEC finalists and worldwide rivals, together with Olympians and Asian Games members.

Prior to his time at South Carolina, Eaton served as assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall College (2019–2021). His two seasons at F&M marked a few of the most profitable in program historical past. The males’s group captured its first convention title in 10 years, this system set a brand new report for All-Americans, and almost each college report was damaged. Two swimmers certified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Eaton additionally hung out with UAA-rival Emory University in 2019 as a volunteer assistant. The ladies’s group gained the NCAA Division III Championship that season, whereas the boys completed as nationwide runners-up. Eaton primarily labored with the dash group.

Before coming into collegiate teaching, Eaton was a head coach at Chattahoochee Gold Swim Club in Georgia. There, he guided age group swimmers ranked within the nationwide prime 10 and helped athletes go on to compete for prime NCAA Division I applications.

Eaton brings a novel and holistic teaching philosophy formed by his earlier profession as a enterprise marketing consultant for Accenture. As a supervisor, he suggested Fortune 500 corporations on large-scale organizational change throughout the U.S., Japan, and Spain—experiences that proceed to tell his strategic, analytical, and management strategy on deck.

A four-time NCAA Division III group nationwide champion and 24-time All-American at Kenyon College, Eaton served as group captain throughout his collegiate profession. He earned his bachelor’s diploma in psychology, a area that continues to affect his ardour for athlete progress and private growth.

Eaton and the University of Chicago males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups open their 2025-26 season at Myers-McLoraine Pool as they host Lewis University on Friday, October 24.