Salisbury University

Nate Parsley enters his fifth season as the head coach of the Salisbury University men's and women's swimming programs in 2025-26. He is also an assistant coach for the Salisbury University softball team.

Honors/Accomplishments as Head Coach

• Broke 174 program records since 2021
• Set 71 Maggs Pool records
• Two All-Americans
  • Sydney McCallie, 2025 (200 IM, 400 IM)
• Three NCAA Championships qualifiers
  • Sydney McCallie, 2025 (200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Breast)
• 2025 Women's NJAC Champions
• 2024 Women's NJAC Runners-Up
• Two NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors
  • Women, 2023-24
  • Women, 2024-25
• 68 All-NJAC selections (16 First Team)
• 55-9 combined Salisbury University coaching record (.859 winning percentage)
  • Men: 27-5, Women: 28-4
• Finished first in combined percentage of personal best swims at the 2024 NJAC Championships
• Named 2022-23 Most Improved NCAA Men's & Women's Division III programs by SwimCloud
• Set men's (2022-23) & women's (2023-24) program record for dual meet wins in a single season (9)
• 2024 Men's Yellow Jacket Invitational Champions
• 2022 Men's Cougar Splash Champions

• Oct. 16, 2022 - Salisbury defeats Marymount (Va.) in the men's (141-90) and women's (140-122) meets for Coach Parsley's first victories as SU head coach 
• Jan. 28, 2023 - Salisbury defeats St. Mary’s (Md.) in the men’s (184-75) and women’s (222-35) meets and assuring the men’s (nine) and women’s (eight) teams their most dual-meet wins in program history
• Jan. 27, 2024 - Salisbury men's swimming defeats Catholic for Coach Parsley's 50th career win as a men's head coach
• Oct. 12, 2024 - Salisbury women's swimming defeats TCNJ for Coach Parsley's 100th career win as a men's and women's head coach
• Jan. 25, 2025 - Salisbury women's swimming defeats Catholic to complete first undefeated dual-meet season in program history
• Feb. 16, 2025 - Salisbury women's swimming wins the NJAC Championship for their first any-conference title in program history
• Mar. 19, 2025 - Sydney McCallie finishes 14th in the 200 IM to become Salisbury women's swimming's first-ever All-American

Coaching Career Prior to Salisbury

Parsley served as the head men's and women's swim coach and aquatics director at Arcadia University from 2017-20. The Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year in 2020, Parsley guided the men's and women's swim teams to three consecutive top-three finishes at the MAC Championships from 2018-20, 625 personal records, 40 program records, six MAC records, 14 Lenox Pool records, 14 MAC champions and three NCAA Division III B cuts. 

At Arcadia, Parsley amassed a 57-12 record with a .826 winning percentage. The men's and women's teams set program records for most dual-meet wins in a single season. The women's team finished the 2017-18 seasons undefeated with an 11-0 mark while the men went 9-0-1 in the 2020 season.

Prior to Arcadia, Parsley was the assistant men's and women's swim coach at Rowan University from 2013-15 and at Haddonfield High School from 2012-13.

Parsley also has experience coaching softball, serving as the first full-time assistant with the Rowan Profs since the spring of 2020, as well as a part-time assistant from 2009-16. He spent time with Division I Radford as an assistant coach from 2016-17.

Personal Life

A two-year captain and a standout student-athlete during his undergraduate swim career, Parsley earned his Bachelor of Arts in education in Dec. 2012 and a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration in May 2016 from Rowan.

Coach Parsley News
04/01/25  Women's Swimming garners 13 All-NJAC laurels, repeats as Coaching Staff of the Year
04/02/24  Women's Swimming earns eight All-NJAC nods; Parsley headlines Coaching Staff of the Year
05/19/21  Parsley announced as new head swimming coach at Salisbury

Coach Parsley’s Record at SU

Last updated: 4/2/25