Ryan Sullivan begins his second season with the UMW men’s and women’s swimming programs as an assistant coach after spending his first year with the team as a volunteer assistant. In his first year with the Eagles, Sullivan was instrumental in recruiting a class of 21 outstanding swimmers, including several with A-final qualifying times for the Metropolitan Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference Championship.

Sullivan graduated from Bloomsburg University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental, Geographical, & Geological Sciences: Professional Geology and a minor in Spatial Analysis and GIS. As a student-athlete at Division II Bloomsburg University, Sullivan competed as a breaststroker and sprint freestyle specialist. He finished as high as 4^th in 100 breaststroke at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships in the 100 breaststroke.

After Graduation he worked as an environmental consultant for AKT Peerless for three years and as a lab technician for Dominion Engineering Associates. Outside of coaching at Mary Washington, Sullivan has also been a coach for the Rappahannock Area Stingrays Senior and Junior groups since May of 2021.

Sullivan serves as Mary Washington’s recruiting coordinating, he heads off-campus recruiting, and planning on campus visits. Sullivan also assists with race analysis for the current team’s swimmers, team travel logistics, meet line-up planning, academic monitoring, and practice planning.

His hometown is Lebanon, PA. He lives in Fredericksburg with his fiancé, Lauren and dog Kalvin.