Connor Rumpit Named Headvert Swimming Coach

LANCASTER, Pa. – Franklin & Marshall has introduced the hiring of Connor Rumpit because the Diplomats’ head males’s and ladies’s swimming coach. Rumpit brings a nationwide championship pedigree to F&M as he spent the final 4 years as an assistant coach at New York University, most not too long ago main the ladies’s group to its first-ever nationwide championship in 2026.

Having spent 4 years as an assistant coach for each the boys’s and ladies’s swimming groups at NYU, Rumpit’s management on the nationwide championship group headlined an unprecedented run of success because the Violets completed within the prime 4 of the group standings on the Division III nationwide championship meet throughout every of the final three seasons. That stretch additional included nationwide runner-up finishes for the boys (2026) and ladies (2025). Both the NYU males’s and ladies’s groups improved their group placement on the nationwide championship meet yearly that Rumpit was on workers. The males’s runner-up end was additionally that group’s highest placement in program historical past.

During his 4 seasons as an assistant coach at NYU, Rumpit coached a mixed 284 All-Americans and 26 nationwide champions between the boys’s and ladies’s packages. He was a member of the University Athletic Association (UAA) Coaching Staff of the Year on two events (2024, 26) and mentored 4 UAA Swimmers of the Year (three girls, one man) and 5 UAA Rookies of the Year (three girls, two males).

“I am very excited to accept the head swimming coach position at Franklin & Marshall,” stated Rumpit. “It was clear to me from the moment that I stepped on campus that Franklin & Marshall offers a welcoming community, an exceptional learning environment, and the opportunity to build a highly competitive swim program. I am excited to meet the team and get to work. Go Diplomats!”

Prior to guiding a record-breaking group at NYU, Rumpit started his collegiate teaching profession as a graduate assistant and instructing fellow at Springfield College for 2 seasons (2020-22). While there, he developed and ran exercises and coaching packages for the swimming group and engaged in recruiting efforts. He additionally taught bodily schooling programs as a part of his instructing fellow duties.

A four-year member of the perennial powerhouse Kenyon swimming group, Rumpit was a six-time All-American. He made the nationwide championship finals and earned first-team All-America honors 3 times all through his aggressive profession. Rumpit set the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) document within the 500 freestyle throughout his senior season and graduated from Kenyon as a five-time NCAC champion. During his undergraduate profession at Kenyon, Rumpit had the distinctive alternative to help the teaching workers throughout his junior 12 months when he monitored people’ development, assisted in campus recruiting, and managed the group’s recruiting database.

Rumpit graduated from Kenyon with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in psychology in 2020. He furthered his schooling by incomes his Master’s of Education in athletic administration in 2022 whereas he was a graduate assistant at Springfield College.

In addition to his collegiate teaching expertise, Rumpit beforehand served as an assistant coach on the Elmbrook Swim Club in his hometown of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Rumpit initially jumped into teaching as the pinnacle coach and pool supervisor for the Wyoming Swim Club in the course of the summer season months when he was a member of the Kenyon swimming group.