Kyllian Griffin

Kyllian Griffin became head coach of Macalester's men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs in the fall of 2018. Coach Griffin was chosen the MIAC Women's Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year in 2022-23 and 2023-2024. He spent the previous four years as the head swim and dive coach and aquatics director at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Ill.

During Griffin’s time at IIT, his athletes have broken 13 school records, won 10 Liberal Arts Conference individual championships, received 38 All-Championship honors and posted four NCAA-qualifying B standard performances. He was also responsible for managing the college’s aquatics facility.

Prior to coaching at IIT, Griffin was an assistant coach at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., for two years. He also spent two years as an assistant coach at Lawrence University, as well as one year as an assistant at Beloit College.

A 2009 graduate of Lawrence, Griffin was a captain and two-time Midwest Conference champion for the Vikings’ swim team. An English major at Lawrence, Griffin went on to earn a Master’s of Education degree in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership from the University of Washington in 2013.