Carrie Robinson. begins her first season as an assistant coach under head coach Phil Hurley for the 2025-26 season and the men's and women's swimming team. Saint Francis added men's swimming as a collegiate sport and will begin competing in 2026-27.
Robinson came to Saint Francis before the 2025-2026 season after a two-year stint as a graduate assistant swim coach at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
On the pool deck for the Saints in 2025, Robinson helped Head Coach Rachel Curtiss coach swimmers to 39 personal-bests, 89 season-bests and five podium finishes at the conference championships. In all, 33 swimmers made conference finals. In the classroom, eight swimmers qualified for the Liberty League all-academic teams.
At the 2024 Liberty League championships, Saints swimmers notched 40 personal-bests, including three program records, and eight individual podium finishes. Thirty-two Saints reached conference finals. Out of the pool, seven swimmers qualified for the Liberty League all-academic teams.
Beyond competition, Robinson helped oversee lifeguards, swim lessons and community events in the Frank and Lee Augsbury Pool and assisted with external relations, including the “Here We Go Saints” fundraising campaign, events honoring members of the 1976 national title team and running the swim program’s Instagram account.
A four-year letter winner at Hiram (Ohio) College, Robinson served as team captain her senior year and the team’s representative to the student-athlete advisory council for three years.
A freestyle sprinter who converted to backstroke and distance freestyle, she helped the Terriers men and women achieve their best combined season in program history her senior year.
In her first-year at Hiram, Robinson helped the women’s team to its best finish in a decade at the North Coast Athletic Conference swimming and diving championships, a mark tied her junior year and bettered by one spot her senior year.
She has also served as a swim coach for the Clinton County Barracudas during the summer since 2017 where she has coached swimmers to age group records.
Robinson graduated in May 2025 from St. Lawrence with a master’s degree in leadership and she graduated in May 2023 from Hiram College’s honors program with bachelor’s degrees in educational studies and history.
