Anthony Randall – Swimming and Diving Coach

Anthony Randall was named head swim coach / aquatics director at Providence College on June 23, 2026. Randall, who spent the earlier 5 seasons as head coach at Marist, changed John O’Neill, who introduced his retirement after two stints because the Friars’ head coach, totaling 36 seasons. Randall will embark on his first season because the Friars’ head coach in 2026-27.

Randall oversees all points of the Providence College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications and oversee the every day operations of Taylor Natatorium as aquatics director.

 

Prior to his arrival at Providence College, Randall spent 5 seasons as head coach of the swimming and diving applications at Marist (2021-26). Randall coached and mentored 21 convention champions, two MAAC Rookie of the Year honorees (2023, 2024) and three Senior Sportsperson of the Year recipients (2023-25). He guided the lads’s swimming & diving workforce to the 2024 MAAC Championship title and earned MAAC Men’s Coach of the Year that very same season. Additionally, his swimmers set greater than 50 college information throughout his tenure with the Red Foxes.

 

Randall additionally spent 5 seasons at Fresno State (2016-21), the place he served as assistant coach earlier than being promoted to affiliate head coach for girls’s swimming. During his tenure, he helped information the Bulldogs to their highest convention finishes and level totals at school historical past, together with a number of particular person convention champions.

 

Randall started his collegiate teaching profession at his alma mater, the University of Rhode Island. He served because the affiliate head swim coach from 2011-16. While with the Rams, he helped produce a number of college and convention file holders, along with URI’s second NCAA “B” Standard Qualifier in program historical past in the course of the 2012-13 season.

 

Prior to helping the varsity program at URI, Randall served as the top males’s membership swimming coach from 2010 to 2011. The squad captured the 2011 National Club Championship and loved its first undefeated common season.

 

In 2014, Randall was the recipient of the CSCAA Jean Freeman Award for Assistant Coaches. The award is given, yearly, to 6 collegiate assistant coaches whose distinctive contributions have introduced recognition to their establishment, and whose management, integrity, honesty, aggressive angle and private graciousness epitomize these traits mirrored by Jean Freeman – the primary lady to change into a full-time Division I head coach. Randall additionally was named the Sullivan North Conference Female Coach of the Year (2007-08) and was the runner-up for Rhode Island Female Coach of the Year (2007-08).

 

Randall graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in journalism / public relations. He was a four-year member of the lads’s swim and dive workforce and served as a workforce captain as a senior.  Randall was an Atlantic 10 Finalist throughout every of his 4 years competing for the Rams and competed within the 50 and 100-yard free along with being a member of the 200 and 400-yard freestyle and medley relay groups.

 

A local of Harrisburg, Pa., Randall is married to his spouse, Corrie. The couple has son, Janai, and daughter, Kalani.

 

 

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