Nate Parsley

Nate Parsley enters his fourth season as the head coach of the Salisbury University men's and women's swimming programs in 2024-25. Coach Parsley and his staff were named the 2024 NJAC Women's Co-Coaching Staff of the Year!

Honors/Accomplishments as Head Coach

• Broke 90 program records since 2021
• Set 15 Maggs Pool records
• Oversaw 900+ lifetime-best swims in first three seasons
• 2024 Women's Team NJAC Championship Runner-Up
• 42-8 combined Salisbury University coaching record (.840 winning percentage)
  • Men: 21-4, Women: 21-4
• Finished first in combined percentage of personal best swims at the 2024 NJAC Championships
• Named 2022-23 Most Improved NCAA Men's & Women's Division III programs by SwimCloud
• Set men's (2022-23) & women's (2023-24) program record for dual meet wins in a single season (9)
• 2022 Men's Team Cougar Splash Champions

Notable Matches as Head Coach

• Oct. 16, 2022 - Salisbury defeats Marymount (Va.) in the men's (141-90) and women's (140-122) meets for Coach Parsley's first victories as SU head coach
• Jan. 28, 2023 - Salisbury defeats St. Mary’s (Md.) in the men’s (184-75) and women’s (222-35) meets and assuring the men’s (nine) and women’s (eight) teams their most dual-meet wins in program history
• Jan. 27, 2024 - Salisbury men's swimming defeats Catholic for Coach Parsley's 50th career win as a men's swimming head coach

Coaching Career Prior to Salisbury

Parsley served as the head men's and women's swim coach and aquatics director at Arcadia University from 2017-20. The Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year in 2020, Parsley guided the men's and women's swim teams to three consecutive top-three finishes at the MAC Championships from 2018-20, 625 personal records, 40 program records, six MAC records, 14 Lenox Pool records, 14 MAC champions and three NCAA Division III B cuts.

At Arcadia, Parsley amassed a 57-12 record with a .826 winning percentage. The men's and women's teams set program records for most dual-meet wins in a single season. The women's team finished the 2017-18 seasons undefeated with an 11-0 mark while the men went 9-0-1 in the 2020 season.

Prior to Arcadia, Parsley was the assistant men's and women's swim coach at Rowan University from 2013-15 and at Haddonfield High School from 2012-13.

Parsley also has experience coaching softball, serving as the first full-time assistant with the Rowan Profs since the spring of 2020, as well as a part-time assistant from 2009-16. He spent time with Division I Radford as an assistant coach from 2016-17.

Personal Life

A two-year captain and a standout student-athlete during his undergraduate swim career, Parsley earned his Bachelor of Arts in education in Dec. 2012 and a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration in May 2016 from Rowan.