Maggie Davenport – Assistant Coach – Swimming & Diving Coaches

Maggie Davenport joins FGCU Swimming & Diving as an assistant coach in 2026, bringing together with her head teaching expertise from Siena and a adorned swimming profession of her personal.

Davenport spent the previous two seasons as the pinnacle coach of Siena’s Women’s Swimming and Diving program, taking up her alma mater’s program in July 2024. In her first 12 months on the helm, she led the Saints to their first ECAC Winter Championship since 2015 and was honored with ECAC Women’s Coach of the Meet, turning into simply the second coach in program historical past to earn that distinction. That season additionally noticed this system set 22 top-10 occasions and 4 program information, highlighted by sophomore Hope Ivanovich turning into this system’s first two-time single-season MAAC particular person champion since 2003 and the primary Siena swimmer to qualify for a nationwide meet. In her second season, Davenport guided Siena to a 5-8 twin meet report, a 3-3 mark in opposition to convention opponents, and a ninth-place end on the MAAC Championships, whereas this system set 9 new high occasions and two new diving high scores.

Before returning to Siena, Davenport served two seasons as an assistant coach for the boys’s and girls’s packages at Union College, the place her swimmers mixed for 138 lifetime-best occasions, 112 championship finalist swims, 16 new top-10 program occasions, 4 faculty information and three NCAA B cuts. Both the Union males’s and girls’s groups opened these seasons with 4 straight wins, a feat the boys’s program hadn’t completed since 1966 and the ladies’s aspect hadn’t achieved in 17 years.

Davenport started her teaching profession as a males’s and girls’s swimming and diving assistant at SUNY New Paltz in the course of the 2021-22 season, serving to this system publish 10 new top-25 relay occasions and 41 particular person top-25 occasions. She has additionally served as head coach of the Schenectady Saratoga Sharks Swim Club and spent a 12 months volunteering with non-profits by the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry following her undergraduate research.

A standout swimmer in her personal proper, Davenport was a four-year letterwinner and workforce captain at Siena, competing in freestyle and breaststroke. She helped anchor the 400-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays to top-three finishes that clinched this system’s first-ever ECAC Championship in 2015, and recorded three particular person and 5 relay first-place finishes in the course of the 2015-16 season.

Davenport earned her B.S. in Biology from Siena in 2019 and her M.S. in Kinesiology from Southeastern University in 2022.