Penn Hires Megan Shaffer as Assistant Coach for Males’s and Ladies’s Swimming & Diving

The University of Pennsylvania has introduced the hiring of Megan Shaffer as an assistant coach for its ladies’s and males’s swimming and diving program. Shaffer fills the vacant function left by Emma Durham, who departed the Quakers’ employees in May to take an assistant teaching function at Pepperdine.

“I am thrilled to add Megan to our coaching staff,” mentioned head coach Mike Schnur in the university’s press release. “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!”

Shaffer involves Penn from Army, the place she spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach. The program reached new heights over her tenure: in March, three feminine swimmers certified for the NCAA Championships, marking the primary three ladies to qualify for the meet since Army started competing in Division I in 1991. The workforce additionally completed because the runners-up on the Patriot League Championships for the fourth straight season.

On the boys’s aspect, Johnny Crush positioned fifth within the 100 backstroke on the 2026 NCAA Championships, setting a brand new program document of 43.84 and tying him for eighth all-time amongst Americans. In 2025, the Army males gained their first Patriot League title since 2001, and the Black Knights additionally earned their first sweep over Navy since 1988.

Shaffer jumpstarted her teaching profession as an assistant at Franklin and Marshall for the 2021-22 season, earlier than shifting on to educate the following two seasons at Colgate University.

“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,” mentioned Shaffer. “I’m ready to get to work and have a great season. Let’s go!”

Shaffer graduated from Susquehanna University in 2020 with a bachelor’s diploma in artistic writing and publishing and modifying. A four-year member of the swimming and diving program, she served as a workforce captain throughout her senior 12 months and was a 15-time ‘A’ finalist on the Landmark Conference Championships.

Shaffer joins a training employees, that moreover herself and Schnur, consists of diving coach Rob Cragg and fellow assistant coach Andrew Abeysinghe.