Staff

Rich Palm is the Head Senior Coach in charge of overseeing our Senior B and Senior A training groups. He joined the coaching staff in September 2012 and took over as Head Coach in 2020. As a coach for Cougars, he’s had four scholastic All-Americans and had to the opportunity to go to the Olympic Training Center as a coach for the USA Swimming National Select Camp.

Coach Rich began competitively swimming at the age of 8 for the Summit YMCA Seals. He also swam for the Caldwell Center Cyclones and Lakeland Hills YMCA. He attended James Caldwell High School where he won the Northern Hills Conference twice, including his senior year as captain. Coach Rich continued his swimming career at Loyola University in Baltimore. While there Loyola won the MAAC conference championship three straight years and had the opportunity to train with Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman.

Also, for the past nine years, Coach Rich has been the Head Coach of the Men's and Women's Swim Teams at Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison. While there he took the Devils from 12^th to 6^th in the MAC conference as well as had swimmers qualify for the ECAC Championships.