Ellie Monobe Steps Down as Pepperdine Girls’s Swimming & Diving Head Coach

MALIBU, Calif. — Pepperdine girls’s swimming & diving head coach Ellie Monobe, who led the Waves to the 2025 MPSF Championship, is leaving her place at Pepperdine for a brand new alternative.
 
Monobe has accepted a place on the helm of the newly launched Saint Mary’s College males’s and girls’s swimming program. Monobe was introduced as head coach on Tuesday morning and can start her duties on Dec. 1. The Gaels will compete of their inaugural season in 2026-27. 
 
Monobe will end the autumn competitors section with the Waves, together with a house twin meet this Saturday in opposition to UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. 
 
“We are extremely grateful for Ellie’s leadership and passion, which have led to unprecedented success for our student-athletes both in and out of the pool,” mentioned Director of Athletics Tanner Gardner. “We wish her the very best in this next chapter.”
 
Monobe was within the midst of her sixth season with the Waves after coming to Malibu in the summertime of 2020. She led Pepperdine to its first-ever convention championship in 2022, capturing the Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference (PCSC) title.
 
Monobe and the Waves repeated as PCSC champions in 2023, and after shifting to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) within the fall of 2023, earned a 3rd convention title in 4 seasons. Monobe was named the 2025 MPSF Coach of the Year following the championship. 
 
During her tenure, Monobe guided the Waves to 17 particular person or relay convention titles. In 5 seasons, her student-athletes clocked program information in 13 swimming occasions. 
 
Following Monobe’s departure, assistant coach Dan Marella will function interim head coach for the rest of the 2025-26 season. Monique Demaisip will proceed in her function as diving coach. 
 
Marella is in fourth season on employees in Malibu, having performed an integral function in all three convention championships throughout his time as assistant coach. Marella joined the Waves following a standout profession at UC Santa Barbara, the place he was an All-MPSF first crew honoree in a number of occasions in each 2019 and 2021.
 
A nationwide seek for this system’s subsequent head coach will start within the spring. 
 
ABOUT PEPPERDINE SWIMMING AND DIVING

Pepperdine swimming & diving has a wealthy historical past spanning 4 many years, having posted top-five finishes in its convention in 32 of 39 seasons. The Waves have captured three convention championships up to now 4 seasons, its first three convention titles, profitable its first MPSF Championship in 2025 after becoming a member of the convention the season prior. In 38 seasons within the PCSC, the Waves noticed 48 particular person champions and 20 PCSC Swimmer or Diver of the Year awards. Andreea Trufasu stands as this system’s lone Olympian, having competed within the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. 
 
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