Billiken Hall of Famer Ryan McCoy Named Swimming & Diving Headvert Coach

ST. LOUIS – Saint Louis University Director of Athletics Chris May has introduced the hiring of 2024 Billiken Hall of Fame inductee Ryan McCoy as head coach of SLU’s males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups.
 
McCoy brings seven years of teaching expertise to Saint Louis, most just lately as an assistant at Illinois State through the 2024-25 season. He spent 4 years as an assistant at Indianapolis after starting his teaching profession as a graduate assistant at Eastern Illinois.
 
“We are thrilled to announce Ryan McCoy as the new head coach for Billiken swimming and diving, and we welcome him back to lead the young women and men in our program,” May mentioned. “Ryan’s record-setting Billiken career and his successful coaching stops have prepared him to guide our student-athletes to success.”
 
“I am ecstatic and honored to be named the head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach for Saint Louis University,” McCoy mentioned. “I wish to thank Chris May, (Deputy Director of Athletics) Dr. Janet Oberle and (Associate Director of Athletics) Annie Reis for the chance to guide this nice group of younger women and men towards this system’s aggressive future.
 
“As an alumnus of the program, the core values of trust, care and commitment to excellence were, and still are, the foundation of success for building a competitive team in the Atlantic 10 Conference,” McCoy mentioned. “The well-being of student-athletes as priority number one is a value that I am happy to have seen firsthand, and I am grateful that I now have the privilege of coaching and shaping Billiken student-athletes toward their bright futures. I cannot wait to get to work and once again call SLU home.”
 
As the lead sprinters’ coach at Illinois State, McCoy mentored swimmers who set three faculty information and one who achieved an NCAA “B” qualifying customary.
 
McCoy’s tenure at NCAA Division II Indianapolis included the primary nationwide championship in program historical past and two convention titles for the lads’s group in addition to two nationwide runner-up finishes and the primary convention crown in 18 years for the ladies’s group. He helped develop Greyhound swimmers Cedric Buessing and Collins Saliboko into 2024 Paris Olympics qualifiers for his or her native international locations of Germany and Tanzania, respectively.
 
Eastern Illinois swimmers set eight faculty information throughout McCoy’s two seasons on the teaching employees. Prior to his second 12 months, he served two months as interim head coach.
 
As a student-athlete at Saint Louis, McCoy competed within the 2016 Olympic Trials within the 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly and met the NCAA “B” qualifying customary a minimum of twice in 4 totally different occasions (11 occasions complete). He collected 20 medals (10 particular person, 10 relay) in A-10 Championships competitors and was a nine-time convention champion (5 particular person, 4 relay), capturing a minimum of one gold medal in every of his 4 seasons. McCoy was the 2015 A-10 Rookie of the Year and earned 10 league awards as both Performer or Rookie of the Week.
 
The Phoenix, Ariz., native was named Most Valuable Performer of the SLU males’s group in every of his 4 years. He held 12 faculty information (eight particular person, 4 relay) on the time of his 2018 commencement; all eight particular person and two of the 4 relay marks stand right now.
 
McCoy earned a Bachelor of Science diploma in sports activities enterprise at Saint Louis and a Master of Business Administration diploma in utilized administration at Eastern Illinois.