Ned joined the Riptides in August 2022, as the Association Director of Competative Swimming.  Ned has a long history of teaching children and adults to swim fast while focusing on their development as young men and women.

Ned’s swimming career began in Columbus, Ohio when his older sister became a star swimmer and wanted to follow in her footsteps. It turned out that Ned was “pretty good”, so he was invited to continue his swimming career at Louisiana State University. After LSU, Ned decided to stay in the swimming world and became a graduate assistant at Ohio University. From there, Ned became the head men’s and women’s swim coach at Central Connecticut State University for four years before heading South to become the head coach at William and Mary.

In 1998 Ned became the Head Coach at Virginia Tech where he amassed 6 Conference Coach of the Year awards, coached 11 international national champions and 2 Olympic athletes, and led his team to win the 2014 ACC team title.   He was also a national team coach for USA Swimming after Robert Owen finish sixth at the 2016 Olympic Trials.