Swimming and Diving Pronounces the Addition of Three New Coaches

EMMITSBURG, Md. (August 27, 2025) – Mount St. Mary’s swimming and diving head coach, Neil Yost, introduced the hiring of three new assistant coaches for the upcoming 2025-26 season on Wednesday. Among the hires are John Nunnelley, Cassidy Preste, and Abby Leskovansky. All three new coaches convey a wealth of expertise and information to the workforce within the lead as much as the workforce’s first meet on the Patriot Relays on September 26.

Nunnelley arrives in Emmitsburg from the University of Indianapolis, serving because the swim workforce’s graduate assistant from 2023-2025. While on workers with the Greyhounds, Nunnelley aided in a Great Lakes Valley Conference title for the boys’s workforce in 2024 whereas the ladies’s workforce completed runner up on the convention championships. After the 2024 title, Indianapolis completed third on the NCAA Division Two nationwide championships whereas the ladies positioned fourth. In 2025, each the boys’s and ladies’s groups completed runners up at GLVC’s, whereas 17 Greyhounds completed within the prime three at NCAA’s. Prior to Indianapolis, Nunnelley served as interim head coach at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, the place three swimmers achieved NCAA Men’s B cuts in 2023. Nunnelley graduated with a grasp’s diploma in Sport Management from Indianapolis in 2025 and with a bachelor’s diploma in Sociology, Crime, and Deviance from Auburn University in 2016. 

Preste involves the Mount after a yr at Penn State Behrend the place she served as assistant coach for the Men’s and ladies’s swimming and diving workforce. Prior to Behrend, Preste served as a graduate assistant coach for the boys’s and ladies’s swim workforce at Westminster College from 2022-2024. She served as swim lesson coordinator for her alma mater, Misericordia University from 2018 to 2022. While on the workforce at Misericordia, Preste served as workforce captain for her remaining two years, graduating from the varsity in 2022 with a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration. She earned a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration from Westminster College in 2024.

Leskovansky arrives on the Mount with the latest swimming expertise, graduating from Saint Vincent College in 2025 with a bachelor’s diploma in laptop science. While in Latrobe, Leskovansky was a standout on the Bearcats ladies’s swim workforce, being named the Presidents Athletic Conference ladies’s swimming MVP for the 2024-25 season, additionally being named to the All-PAC First Team. She additionally served as captain of the ladies’s workforce at Saint Vincent from 2023-2025.