Dan Schemmel is Stanford's Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming, beginning on May 14, 2019.
Through the 2024-25 season, Schemmel has led Stanford to NCAA top-eight team finishes the past four years. School records in 13 events -- nine individual and four relays -- have fallen under Schemmel, including six in 2025. In addition, 34 different swimmers and divers have earned All-America honors in Schemmel's Stanford tenure and eight have been named Academic All-Americans.
Stanford owns a 23-8 dual-meet record (.742) under Schemmel, who is 18-2 (.900) at Avery Aquatic Center. Stanford went 12-0 at home from 2020-21 into 2023-24.
Through the 2024-25 season, Schemmel has led Stanford to NCAA top-eight team finishes the past four years. School records in 13 events -- nine individual and four relays -- have fallen under Schemmel, including six in 2025. In addition, 34 different swimmers and divers have earned All-America honors in Schemmel's Stanford tenure and eight have been named Academic All-Americans.
Stanford owns a 23-8 dual-meet record (.742) under Schemmel, who is 18-2 (.900) at Avery Aquatic Center. Stanford went 12-0 at home from 2020-21 into 2023-24.
In 2025, Stanford placed eighth at the NCAA Championships and second in its first Atlantic Coast Conference Championships. Fourteen Cardinal earned All-America honors -- the third-highest total of any team in the country -- and six school records were broken at the NCAA Championships. Stanford earned four ACC individual titles and Jack Ryan was named ACC Diver of the Year.
In 2024, two active Stanford swimmers, Ron Polonsky and Jonathan Tan advanced to the Paris Olympic Games, with Polonsky reaching the semifinals in the 100-meter breaststroke and 200 individual medley, placing 12th in the latter.
Under Two Cardinal have earned conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors for men's swimming and diving -- Leon MacAlister in the Pac-12 and Ryan in the ACC. From 2023-25, the program has earned 10 Academic All-America honors.
Prior to Stanford, Schemmel spent three seasons as head coach of both the men’s and women’s programs at University of Hawai’i. The women won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship each season while the men captured their first conference championship since 2006. Under his leadership, Hawai’i produced a 57 individual conference champions, 42 school records, 20 conference records and six All-Americans.
Schemmel spent the previous 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’ in educational psychology.
Schemmel has helped add to an impressive resume for Stanford's men's swimming and diving program. In 109 seasons, the Cardinal has captured eight national team championships and 64 conference championships, including 31 consecutive from 1982-2012. Individual swimmers and divers combined for 151 national championships and 380 conference championships. Seven 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 an athlete, assistant coach, associate head coach and as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming from 2012-19.
Under Two Cardinal have earned conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors for men's swimming and diving -- Leon MacAlister in the Pac-12 and Ryan in the ACC. From 2023-25, the program has earned 10 Academic All-America honors.
Prior to Stanford, Schemmel spent three seasons as head coach of both the men’s and women’s programs at University of Hawai’i. The women won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship each season while the men captured their first conference championship since 2006. Under his leadership, Hawai’i produced a 57 individual conference champions, 42 school records, 20 conference records and six All-Americans.
Schemmel spent the previous 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’ in educational psychology.
Schemmel has helped add to an impressive resume for Stanford's men's swimming and diving program. In 109 seasons, the Cardinal has captured eight national team championships and 64 conference championships, including 31 consecutive from 1982-2012. Individual swimmers and divers combined for 151 national championships and 380 conference championships. Seven 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 an athlete, assistant coach, associate head coach and as the Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming from 2012-19.