Ryan Purdy – Swimming & Diving Coach

Ryan Purdy joined the Alabama swimming and diving teaching workers in June 2026. Purdy, who involves the Capstone after spending two years at Army, joins the Crimson Tide as an assistant coach.

“What stood out most about Ryan was the genuine way he builds relationships,” Geer stated. “He has great knowledge of the sport and is someone our student-athletes will trust and want to be around every day. Just as importantly, he is a great fit for our staff. We are thrilled to welcome him to Alabama and excited for the impact he will have on our program.”

Prior to starting his teaching profession, Purdy was a standout swimmer and workforce captain for the Arizona Wildcats throughout their 2023-24 season. While there, Purdy was part of the applications file breaking 200 medley relay workforce and was a Pac-12 Championship finalist within the 100 breast, 200 medley and 400 medley. 

While with the Army Black Knights swimming program, he helped coach the lads’s swimming and diving workforce to the 2025 Patriot League title – this system’s first convention championship in 24 years. Army adopted that up with a runner-up end on the Patriot League Championships this previous yr. 

“I want to sincerely thank Margo and the entire Alabama swim and dive family for this opportunity,” Purdy stated. “I’m incredibly grateful and honored to join such an elite program. Alabama has such a rich history in swimming and diving, and I can’t wait to help take it to an even higher level. Roll Tide!”

Army-Westpoint (2024-26)

• Coached the lads’s and girls’s sprinters which included creating distinctive and particular energy and dash practices catered in the direction of totally different athletes
• Implemented new vitamin requirements and methods, which included the restocking and ordering weekly provide of wholesome dietary supplements and nutritional vitamins whereas working carefully with workforce nutritionists on correct fueling
• Increased athletes’ athleticism by implementing plyometrics and energy practices Each session designed by way of sensible swimming purposes
• Coached three particular person NCAA All-Americans, one All-American Honorable Mention relay workforce (2026, 2025)
• Helped program earn its first three girls’s swimming NCAA qualifiers in workforce historical past (2026)
• Helped information program to its first males’s workforce Patriot League Championship title since 2001 (2025)
• His swimmers earned 65 prime 10 girls’s occasions, 83 prime 10 males’s occasions, six Patriot League Women’s Records and 5 Patriot League Men’s Records

Tucson Aquatic Club (2022-24)

• Served as assistant senior swim coach
• Formed long run season plans for varied teams whereas teaching numerous varieties of athletes of all totally different ranges
• Coached and wrote units for a number of teams like dash, center distance, and distance
• Taught the significance of adopting a complete and wholesome mindset
• Prepared athletes for competitors by way of visualization, respiratory and stretching workouts
• Helped highschool athletes perceive the faculty recruiting course of

Personal

• Served as volunteer assistant power and conditioning coach on the University of Arizona through the summer time of 2022
• Had a profitable collegiate profession within the pool at each the University of Arizona (2021-23) and the University of Iowa (2019-21)
• Served as workforce captain whereas with the Wildcats (2021-23), posting a number of B-cut occasions
• Earned CSCAA Scholar All-American honors in 2022 and CSC Academic All-District accolades in 2023 at Arizona
• He additionally was an All-Academic Big Ten choice throughout his profession at Iowa
• Graduated from the University of Arizona in 2024 with a bachelor’s diploma in studying and management innovation with a minor in recreation and sport
• Also studied human physiology whereas at Iowa