Bucknell Headvert Swimming Coach Dan Schinnerer Resigns for Club Gig

For the second time this week, a Patriot League head swimming & diving coach has resigned. This time, it was Dan Schinnerer of Bucknell who has led the Bison for the final 20 seasons. He is formally leaving this system mid-July for a task as a senior coach with the Nation’s Capital Swim Club, the biggest USA Swimming membership within the nation.

He follows Army head coach Brandt Nigro, who left his put up for an affiliate head coach job with the University of Texas girls.

Schinnerer leaves this system because the longest-tenured girls’s swimming and diving coach and second-longest tenured males’s coach. He has profession twin meet data of 121-58-1 on the ladies’s aspect and 100-80 on the boys’s aspect, that are probably the most and second-most in program historical past for these groups, respectively.

“Twenty years goes by very quickly, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to be part of Bucknell University and the Bucknell swimming and diving family,” mentioned Schinnerer. “It is a special place and a special program. Bucknell was very good to my family and me, but at this stage of our lives this new opportunity presented itself, and we believe it will be best for us moving forward. I am thankful for all the people I have had the chance to work with here. I hope I have made a positive difference in people’s lives while helping them learn and grow through sport.”

The males’s and ladies’s groups mixed for 11 runner-up finishes within the deep Patriot League throughout Schinnerer’s reign (4 males, seven girls), and he was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year 5 occasions:

• 2008 – males
• 2010 – males
• 2013 – girls
• 2020 – girls
• 2022 – males

Dan Schinnerer swam collegiately at Yale and was an assistant coach at Michigan earlier than being employed as the top coach at Bucknell.

Schinnerer’s spouse Lesia was a star school tennis participant on the Peddie School and the University of Richmond, and is in each colleges’ athletics Halls of Fame. Their two sons Erik and Kase are each now extremely ranked youth tennis gamers.

What has been an virtually historically-slow yr on the teaching carousel, particularly on the highest ranges of the game, has seen some late motion. So far, head teaching modifications have come at Brown (Mitch Dalton employed), Cincinnati (Joey Ferreri promoted), Youngstown State (Hannah Saiz employed), Illinois State (Ryan Evans employed), Providence (nonetheless vacant), Army (nonetheless vacant), and now Bucknell, there was a whole lot of shifting round on decrease rungs of the ladder.