Marist Names Billy Gordon as Head Coach of Swim and Dive Program

POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Marist University Director of Athletics Tim Murray has introduced the hiring of Billy Gordon as the following head coach of the Red Foxes swimming and diving program.
 
Gordon involves Marist after 4 seasons with the Bryant Bulldogs, the place he spent two seasons as an assistant coach earlier than being promoted to Associate Head Swimming and Diving Coach/Coordinator of Recruiting and Pool Operations previous to the 2024-25 season.
 
In the 2024-25 season, Gordon helped lead the Bulldogs to 2 podium finishes on the America East Championships, with the ladies putting second and the lads ending third. Bryant captured seven gold medals in the course of the championship meet.
 
Following a profitable first season as affiliate head coach, Gordon helped information this system to historic success in 2025-26, main the ladies’s workforce to its first America East Championship in program historical past, whereas the lads’s workforce maintained a third-place podium end.
 
Following the 2025-26 marketing campaign, Gordon and the Bryant workers have been named America East Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year.
 
Before his time at Bryant, Gordon spent 4 years as an assistant coach at La Salle University. During his tenure with the Explorers, he led each the dash and mid-distance teams and coached athletes who broke Atlantic 10 data and posted NCAA provisional qualifying instances.
 
Gordon competed collegiately at East Carolina University and was a Conference USA finalist in every of his 4 seasons.