Lara Mitchell Named Girls’s Swimming & Diving Assistant Coach

PRINCETON, N.J. – Princeton University ladies’s swimming & diving Head Coach Abby Brethauer introduced Lara Mitchell because the Tigers’ latest assistant coach Monday.

Mitchell joins Princeton from Ithaca College, she was a graduate assistant coach for the lads’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

“We are thrilled to welcome Lara to the Princeton Swimming & Diving family,” mentioned Brethauer. “From the moment we met, she brought an incredible level of energy, enthusiasm, and passion for coaching. Her background as both a competitive swimmer at Boston University and her work on deck at Ithaca College has prepared her to step into this role and make an immediate impact on the continued development of our student-athletes and our program. We are so excited to have her get started!” 

From 2020-2024, Mitchell was a member of the ladies’s swimming and diving group at Boston University.

“I am thrilled to join the PUCSDT coaching staff alongside Abby and Joe and can’t wait to learn from them in the coming season,” mentioned Mitchell. “I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity to coach such a talented group of swimmers here at Princeton.”

Mitchell was a part of a training workers that guided Ithaca’s ladies’s swimming & diving group to Liberty League championships in 2025 and 2026, together with a Liberty League title with the lads’s group in 2026.

Since August 2025, Mitchell has additionally served as a USA Swim Coach with the Syracuse Chargers the place she develops swimmers aged eight to 18 by structured practices targeted on correct approach, endurance and race technique. In addition, Mitchell labored as a Mental Performance Consultant from May 2025 till May 2026 at Ithaca.

At BU, Mitchell earned Patriot League Academic Honor Roll honors in 2022, 2023 and 2024. She was named group MVP in 2023 and 2024 and set eight group information together with three particular person occasions and 5 relays whereas competing for the Terriers.  She made it onto the rostrum within the 100-yard backstroke (’22, ’23, ’24), 200-yard backstroke (’22, ’23), 200 medley relay (’23), 200 free relay (’23, ’24) 400 medley relay (’24) and 400-free relay (’24) at Patriot League Championships within the 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons. Additionally, she was a member of the BU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the BU Bloom Family Leadership Academy and Morgan’s Message (scholar psychological well being help).

Mitchell graduated with a Master of Science – Sport and Exercise Science, Concentration in Mental Performance from Ithaca in May 2026. In May 2024, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts – Psychology from Boston University.