Dan Schemmel was hired as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming on May 14, 2019.
In his first season as head coach, Stanford finished third at the Pac-12 Conference Championships before the cancellation of the NCAA Championships due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Thirteen swimmers and divers were named All-America with all relay teams earning the NCAA "A" standard. Twelve were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll while 13 were named Scholar All-America by CSCAA.
Schemmel spent the previous three seasons as head coach of both the men’s and women’s programs at University of Hawai’i. The women’s program won the MPSF conference championship in each of those three seasons while the men’s team captured its first conference championship since 2006. Under his leadership, Hawai’i produced a combined 57 individual conference champions, 42 school records, 20 conference records and six All-Americans.
Prior to serving as head coach at Hawai’i, Schemmel spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Wisconsin, where he coached 17 Big-Ten conference champions to nine Big-Ten conference records. He also spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant coach at Michigan State, his alma mater, and two seasons as a graduate assistant at Arizona (2008-10), where he earned his masters’ degree in educational psychology.
Schemmel inherits a program which, in 102 seasons, has captured eight national championships and 64 Pac-12 conference championships, including 31 consecutive from 1982-2012. Individual swimmers and divers have combined for 147 national championships and 360 conference championships, while seven former Cardinal were named to the Pac-12 All-Century team in 2016.
Schemmel is the sixth head coach in the history of the program, succeeding Ted Knapp, who served a combined 39 years on The Farm as a student-athlete, assistant coach, associate head coach and as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming from 2012-19.
