A Message from Head Coach Steve Fletcher
Dear Alumni and Friends:
Thank you for your continued support of the Rider University Swimming & Diving program. We wish you and your family good health and happiness in 2022.
In a continuous effort to position our teams at the top of the Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference, our athletes have accomplished great things. Since 2001, our teams have earned 14 conference championship team titles. Rider swimmers and divers have rewritten the record board qualifying for high profile meets including; the 2016 U. S. Olympic Team Trials, USA Swimming Nationals, USA Diving Nationals, the Pan-American Games, the FINA World Championships and the NCAA Division I National Championships.
Our men’s and women’s teams continue to excel in the classroom and are recognized biannually by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America as “Scholar All-America Teams” while routinely earning team semester average GPA’s above 3.00.
Over the last two decades, the coaching staff has built the competitiveness of our teams while working to preserve the community of friendship cultivated by Head Coach Emeritus, Rich Coppola. Our commitment today is stronger than ever.
In 2019, after a generous leadership gift from Wayne Canastra ‘72, you came forward and gave in support of the renovation of the Richard A. Coppola Pool. The completion of this project provided our athletes with a new home in which to carry on the traditions you helped to establish.
We still need your leadership as we prepare our student-athletes for the next competition and the next stage in their careers after Rider. The Raise Your Game Challenge is an annual call for giving that offers the supporters of our program a voice on campus. Each gift at any level is a statement from our community that underscores the value of the Swimming & Diving program at Rider University. Now, more than ever, it is important for us to be heard!
Your participation in our program energizes our teams. Please stop in to visit the team at a meet, at one of our annual Alumni events or whenever you have time to return to campus.
GO BRONCS!