Men's Swimming and Diving
- Title:
- Assistant Head Coach/Director of Recruiting (Swimming)
- Email:
- lukeryan@iu.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 856-5105
Luke Ryan joined the Indiana swimming and diving staff as the primary sprints coach in the summer of 2020. In 2023, he was promoted to assistant head swimming coach and director of recruiting.
Since Ryan joined head coach Ray Looze’s staff, Indiana has won two Big Ten titles on the men’s side and finished in the top six at the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. The women’s team has placed top three at Big Tens each season and top-15 at the national meet, highlighted by a program record seventh-place finish at the 2023 championships.
Last season, the men placed fourth at the NCAA Championships led in the pool by Brendan Burns national title in the 100-yard backstroke and seven All-America finishes by fifth-year senior Van Mathias, who posted dramatic year-over-year drops in the 50 freestyle (20.05 to 18.89), 100 freestyle (43.70 to 41.33) and 100 breaststroke (54.74 to 50.57).
After the 2022-23 season, Ryan served as an assistant coach for the Tunisian national team at the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships, specifically working with IU swimmer and 2020 Olympian Ahmed Hafnaoui. At the championships, Hafnaoui won world titles in the 1,500 free and 800 free and earned a silver medal in the 400 free, posting top-five times in all three events.
Ryan came to Bloomington after spending the 2019 campaign as a volunteer assistant coach with Ohio State. While with the Buckeyes, Ryan served as the primary women’s recruiting coach for 15 states and was actively involved in many other high-profile recruiting efforts.
Prior to his year with OSU, Ryan spent a season with Penn State as an undergraduate assistant. On top of his duties with the swim program, he earned three letters with the Nittany Lion football team as a student manager. He worked primarily with the quarterback group.
Ryan also worked with the Navy Swim Camp in the summer of 2018. He wrote and executed workouts for 10-14 swimmers as a “Seal Team Leader” in addition to working swim camps at Penn State, Villanova and Ohio State.
In the summer of 2017, he spent time working as an assistant coach with the Austin Swim Club tied to the swim program at the University of Texas where he shadowed legendary Texas head coach Eddie Reese to expand upon his program development knowledge.
Luke Ryan graduated from Penn State University in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a psychology minor. He was twice named to the Dean’s List, once at Towson and once at Penn State. He has three brothers, one older, one younger and one twin. Ryan originally hails from Villanova, Pa.
