Shaffer Joins Schnur on S&D Coaching Employees

PHILADELPHIA – The Lou and Rene Kozloff Head Coach of Swimming, Mike Schnur, introduced the hiring of Megan Shaffer as an assistant coach for this system on Thursday afternoon.

Shaffer involves University City after spending the previous two seasons at Army West Point as an assistant coach.

“I am thrilled to add Megan to our coaching staff,” stated Schnur. “Her experiences at West Point over the past two years coincided with the incredible success both of their teams enjoyed, I am looking forward to her contributing the same energy, excitement, and knowledge to the Quakers!”

During her stint in West Point, Shaffer was an integral member of the Black Knights’ teaching employees that noticed constant success. The males have been topped Patriot League champions in 2024-25 and he or she labored with 38 particular person convention champions. Shaffer helped develop 11 NCAA qualifiers, seven All-Americans, and two Patriot League Swimmers of the Meet, whereas breaking 41 academy data and 20 convention data.

In addition to her teaching obligations, her function included logistical duties akin to writing and creating content material for the staff’s alumni community to advertise fundraising and donations.

Prior to her appointment in West Point, Shaffer started her Patriot League journey in Hamilton, N.Y. with Colgate. Serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the boys’s staff, she helped information the Raiders to a historic 2022-23 marketing campaign. That season, each the boys’s and ladies’s squads scored their most factors on the convention championship meet since 2018 and 2016, respectively, whereas breaking 17 program data. The following 12 months, Lucy Art turned the primary feminine swimmer to succeed in the rostrum on the Patriot League Championships in a decade, putting third within the 100 free. The girls’s facet additionally notched a 5-3 dual-meet mark in 2023-24, their first successful season since 2017-18.

Shaffer’s first style of teaching expertise got here at Franklin and Marshall. Throughout the 2021-22 season, the Diplomats positioned seventeenth on the males’s NCAA Championships, marking this system’s highest-ever end on the nationwide degree. Between the women and men, 17 program data have been set throughout the season together with two convention data.

“I’m so honored and excited to join Penn swim and dive! A huge shoutout to Mike for giving me this amazing opportunity, and to all the teams and coaches that I’ve worked with thus far in my career,” stated Shaffer. “I’m ready to get to work and have a great season. Let’s go!”

The Berwick, Pa. native was a four-time All-Landmark choice, 15-time Landmark Championship finalist, and staff captain at Susquehanna University.  She graduated from Susquehanna in 2020 with a bachelor’s diploma in artistic writing and publishing & modifying.

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