Bradford Hancock – Associate Head Swimming Coach – Girls’s Swimming & Diving Coaches

Queens University of Charlotte Director of Swimming Jeff Dugdale introduced the addition of Brad Hancock as Associate Head Coach for the Royals males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving applications in July 2025. A adorned NCAA champion and proud Queens alumnus, Hancock returns to Charlotte with elite teaching credentials and a confirmed document of athlete growth on the nationwide and worldwide ranges.

Hancock most lately served as Head Coach of Coronado Swim Team Elite in Southern California, the place he led the membership by a profitable program restructure and coached athletes to premier worldwide competitions together with USA Swimming Summer Junior Nationals, the Pan American Games, and the 2024 Paris Olympics. His management prolonged throughout workers growth, scheduling throughout a number of coaching websites, and curriculum design for all age teams.

Prior to his time in California, Hancock spent 4 years with New Wave Swim Team in Raleigh, N.C., the place he helped elevate this system to a top-five nationwide age group rating by the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA). He was named an ASCA Top 50 Age Group Coach of the Year in 2021 and was repeatedly chosen to serve on workers for North Carolina Swimming’s elite growth camps.

Hancock returns to the Royals with a standout collegiate resume of his personal. Competing for Queens from 2014–2018, he helped this system seize 4 straight NCAA Division II nationwide championships. He was a two-time NCAA Division II All-American (2016–17, 2017–18), a CSCAA Scholar All-American in 2015–16, and a Bluegrass Mountain Conference All-Conference choice within the 50 freestyle through the 2017–18 season. Hancock was additionally a Presidential Scholar and NCAA Scholastic All-American.

“The opportunity to return to my alma mater, in our first season of NCAA Division I eligibility, as your next Associate Head Coach is a responsibility that I am excited to accept,” Hancock stated. “The success of our program at Coronado Swim Team Elite over the last two years made this decision a difficult one, and I would like to personally thank my San Diego family for a great run. Pete McVey, David Marsh, Mel Eisenhamer, my assistant coaches, parents and swimmers made my time spent in California a memorable one, and I appreciate all of the lessons learned and knowledge gained during that time. I hope to motivate and enable our student-athletes to create one of the most dynamic and competitive programs in college swimming, and have fun while doing it.”

As Associate Head Coach, Hancock will help in all sides of this system, together with coaching, recruiting, and program growth.