Sean Tedesco is entering his tenth season as the head coach of the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Since his arrival at Kings Point, Tedesco has led the men’s squad to three straight Landmark Conference Championships and six consecutive Skyline Conference Championships between 2001 and 2010. He has also garnered 16 Coach of the Year honors through his nine seasons. Tedesco garnered the Landmark Conference Coach of the Year Award three times (men’s), the Skyline Coach of the Year Award nine times (six men’s/three women’s) and the Metropolitan Conference Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year twice in 2004 and 2006. In 2005 and 2008, the Academy named him the recipient of the Coach Omeletchenko Coach of the Year Award.

During his tenure, the Blue and Gray have made 61 standards for the NCAA Division III Championships and the men’s team has finished in the top 30 at the national meet eight times in Tedesco’s nine seasons at the helm. After placing 30th during his first two years, USMMA placed 19th nationally in 2004 behind Joel Meyer, who was named National Diver of the Year. The 2005-06 team placed 21st at the NCAA Division III Championships as well as the 06-07 team placing 25th, the 07-08 team placing 25th, the 08-09 team placing 23rd behind Nick Halbach, who was also named National Diver of the Year. In 2009-10, the team placed 29th.

Tedesco has coached nine All-Americans with 22 All-American certificates. He has also coached 26 NCAA qualifiers and seen 90 Academy records and 106 conference/pool records broken. His 2001-02 and 2006-07 teams earned Academic All-America honors. Also, his athletes have gained eight Academic All-American honors.

Prior to his arrival at Kings Point, Tedesco served as the top assistant men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Villanova University. His responsibilities included designing, organizing and running swim, dry land and weight training workouts for the teams while also coordinating all recruiting efforts. At Villanova, he coached one Olympian, three U.S. Olympic Trial qualifiers, two Canadian Olympic Trial qualifiers, one NCAA Champion and eight NCAA qualifiers. Furthermore, the women’s team placed second at the Big East Championships in 1999.

Tedesco earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut in 1998, where he was a member of the men’s swimming and diving team. He earned the University Senior Athlete Award in 1998 and garnered Most Valuable Swimmer honors in 1996 and 1998. Additionally, Tedesco was a NCAA Division I qualifier, a Senior National qualifier and a Big East Champion in the 200-yard breaststroke. The Huskies were named a Big East Conference All Academic Team in 1996 and 1997 with Tedesco on the roster. The coach went on to earn a master’s degree in business administration from Adelphi University in 2003.

Tedesco still stays active in his free time. From 2006-2008 he earned Triathlete All-American honors. He also completed the 2004 Wisconsin Ironman Triathlon.

Tedesco currently resided in East Meadow with his wife, Marissa and their daughters, Abigail and Amanda.

Kevin Ryan has just finished his 28th season as men's and women's diving coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. After the 2003-04 he was named the NCAA Diving Coach of the Year, which he also received in 1987-88, Metropolitan Conference Diving Coach of the Year and the ECAC Diving Coach of the Meet after guiding Joel Meyer to NCAA Diver of the Year honors. He served as a member of the NCAA Diving Selection Committee in 2003 and the NCAA Diving Subcommittee for the past few years.

In 1991 he was honored as KP's Coach of the Year. He's guided KP divers to 25 All-America honors and three NCAA Division III National Champions. Has coached many divers of various age groups who have gone on to dive at numerous colleges - including Yale, Tufts, Stony Brook, Washington University, Rhode Island and Queens College. He has been involved with the Empire State Games for over 20 years - first as a diver, then as the NYC Region coach, and lastly, as State Chairperson coordinating all the diving events at the games in both Syracuse and Buffalo.

He was a member of the St. John's University diving team, where he was Metropolitan Diving Champion as a sophomore on the one-meter board and qualified for Division I Nationals his junior and senior seasons. He graduated from St. John's in 1976 with a B.S. in marketing and in 1980 with an MBA in finance. He has taught at Kings Point as an adjunct professor in both marketing and finance.

Shane McGrath is entering his 1st season as the assistant coach of the men’s and women’s Swimming and diving teams at The United States Merchant Marine Academy.  Prior to his arrival at Kings Point, McGrath was the assistant at Rowan University for three seasons, where he coached two Division III NCAA Qualifiers.  Here, he managed meet operations; developed work outs and primarily utilized his knowledge in coaching distance swimmers as his specialty.  McGrath was also an assistant for The Greater Philadelphia Aquatic club where he worked with age group swimmers and junior national level athletes.  Before pursuing coaching, McGrath was a distance swimmer for Rowan and earned the position of Captain for the 2006-2007season. McGrath obtained his bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science along with a teaching certification for grades K-12.  Away from the pool, he is an American Heart Association C.P.R instructor and a certified open water lifeguard.  For the past 12 summers, McGrath was a Lieutenant for the Avalon Beach patrol where he won countless lifeguard races including 5 SuperAthalon Titles.  McGrath assumes this position at the United States Merchant Marine Academy with the knowledge, skills and experience to further the excellence of the Mariners’ swimming and diving teams.