By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Sean Schimmel and the Penn State swim & dive program have parted ways after two seasons.
A school spokesperson told SwimSwam that Schimmel has “departed from the university” but declined to provide any additional information.
Schimmel was hired as an associate head coach with the Nittany Lions in June 2024, one month after Hollie Bonewit-Cron was named the new head coach of the program. The two worked together during the 2023-24 season at Miami (OH), where Bonewit-Cron was the head coach and Schimmel worked under her as an assistant.
Prior to joining the Redhawks in late 2023, Schimmel spent six years in Athens, Georgia, working as both a volunteer assistant for the University of Georgia and as an associate head coach for the ABSC Pro Dawgs.
He has also had collegiate coaching stints at Harvard, LSU, Maryland and Arkansas, serving as a head coach with the latter two.
Ethan Curl, who was also named a new assistant coach with Penn State in June 2024, was hired by Ohio University earlier this month.
In addition to Schimmel and Curl’s departures, Penn State also appears to have moved on from another staff member who was hired prior to the 2024-25 season, assistant diving coach Bill Williams, who no longer appears on the team website.
Penn State currently has job postings up on its website for an associate/assistant men’s and women’s swimming coach and a head diving coach. The school hired Buck Smith as its head diving coach in September 2024, but he left after one season.
Penn State has struggled to gain any momentum in the last two seasons under Bonewit-Cron after former head coach Tim Murphy was fired in April 2024 after being placed on an unspecified leave of absence earlier that season.
The Nittany Lions placed 13th out of 14 teams at the 2026 Women’s Big Ten Championships after taking 12th in 2025. The men’s program has finished ninth out of nine teams at Big Tens the past two years.
At the NCAA level, the program qualified one swimmer, Mariano Lazzerini, for the 2026 Men’s NCAA Championships, and he went on to score five points by placing 12th in the 100 breaststroke. The men also fielded teams in the 200 and 400 medley relays at NCAAs but failed to score.
The women qualified diver Grace Brammer for NCAAs this past season, with her highest finish being 36th in the 3-meter event.
Penn State didn’t send any swimmers or divers to the 2025 NCAA Championships.
In 2024, prior to the hiring of the current regime, the Penn State women placed ninth out of 12 teams at Big Tens, while the men took seventh out of eight teams.
The men’s team scored eight points at the 2024 NCAAs, with Lazzerini and Cooper Morley chipping in three points apiece, while the 400 medley relay also got on the board with a 16th-place finish.
Penn State currently has Bonewit-Cron, assistant coaches Tommy Johnson and Nicole McConnell, and assistant diving coach Trevor Sisson listed as staff members on its website, along with Director of Operations Ricky Dove.
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