Andrew Hale ’23 named Headvert Coach of Males’s and Girls’s Swimming

By: Bill Morgal, sports activities info director

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Director of Athletics Jeff Michaels introduced Tuesday that Andrew Hale ’23 has been employed as the top coach of males’s & girls’s swimming at Shippensburg University.
 
Hale returns to his alma mater after spending the 2025-26 season because the full-time assistant coach at Clarion below the path of Brehan Kelley. The Golden Eagle males’s and ladies’s groups every positioned fourth at this 12 months’s Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.
 
“I am super excited to be the next head coach at Shippensburg University,” Hale stated. “I am even more excited to be returning to the program where I developed as a swimmer, student, and individual for five years. It is an honor to be taking over for Tim Verge and to continue to strengthen and develop the program.”
 
For the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, Hale served as a graduate assistant coach for the ladies’s swimming staff at Millersville below the path of one other Raider alumnus, Evan Anthony ’19. Hale contributed to a training workers that instructed athletes who set 10 faculty information in two seasons. The Marauders positioned fifth on the convention meet in 2025.
 
As a collegiate swimmer, Hale excelled with the Raiders from 2018-23. He stays the school-record holder within the 200-yard particular person medley (IM) with a time of 1:52.30 and in addition holds SU’s quickest time within the less-frequently contested 100-yard IM (52.29 seconds).
 
In 2021, a season during which the Raiders completed second on the PSAC Championships, Hale set his faculty report within the 200-yard IM and earned All-PSAC finishes in each breaststroke and each IM occasions on the convention meet.
 
Hale’s versatility was evidenced by the truth that he competed in six completely different particular person occasions throughout his profession on the PSAC Championships. In addition to his faculty information, Hale ranks amongst SU’s all-time Top 10 efforts in six completely different occasions: he’s second in class historical past within the 200-yard breaststroke (2:03.71), fourth within the 100-yard breaststroke (56.90 seconds), fifth within the 100-yard backstroke (51.58 seconds), sixth within the 400-yard IM (4:06.64), eighth within the 100-yard freestyle (46.53 seconds) and tenth within the 100-yard butterfly (51.21 seconds).
 
Overall, Hale was a 19-time PSAC particular person place winner who earned six All-PSAC (Top 3) classifications. He was additionally part of six scoring relays on the PSAC Championships.
 
Hale graduated from Shippensburg in 2023, incomes a bachelor’s diploma in historical past with social research educating certification whereas incomes minors in teaching and train science. He graduated from Millersville in 2025, receiving his grasp’s diploma in sport administration with a focus in athletic teaching. 
 
He replaces Tim Verge ’89, who introduced his retirement in March after 27 seasons as the top coach at his alma mater.