Dan Schemmel

Dan Schemmel was hired as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming on May 14, 2019. In 2022-23 Schemmel built upon the team's success during the previous season, finishing eighth overall at the NCAA Championships. 11 of his student-athletes earned All-America awards while the team also earned the best GPA among all Division I programs during the school year.

Senior Leon MacAlister was lauded as the Pac-12 Men's Swimming and Diving Scholar Athlete of the Year and was also named among four swimmers to the CSC Academic All-America teams.

Schemmel's third season as head coach of Stanford was his most successful, culminating with an undefeated regular season, a second place finish at the Pac-12 Championship meet, and a seventh place finish at the NCAA Championship meet.

During the 2021-22 regular season, the Cardinal amassed five top-25 wins, including a signature dual meet victory over eventual NCAA champion California. Schemmel guided the Stanford swimmers and divers to six conference individual titles and the Cardinal's first individual NCAA champion since 2017, Andrei Minakov's victory in the 100 fly.

The 2021-22 season also saw coach Schemmel's student-athletes break 10 Stanford records and bring home 14 All-America honors from the NCAA Championship meet.

Schemmel's second year in charge of the program came during the 2020-21 season, in which the Cardinal finished 1-1 in dual meets and took second place in the Pac-12 conference. Stanford's season concluded at the NCAA Championships where the team placed 14th overall.

In his first season as head coach, Stanford finished third at the Pac-12 Conference Championships before the cancelation 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 has helped add to an impressive resume for Stanford's men's swimming and diving program. In 105 seasons, the Cardinal has captured eight national championships and 64 Pac-12 Conference championships, including 31 consecutive from 1982-2012. Individual swimmers and divers have combined for 148 national championships and 376 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.