Sean Tedesco is entering his tenth season as the head coach of the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Since his arrival at Kings Point, Tedesco has led the men’s squad to three straight Landmark Conference Championships and six consecutive Skyline Conference Championships between 2001 and 2010. He has also garnered 16 Coach of the Year honors through his nine seasons. Tedesco garnered the Landmark Conference Coach of the Year Award three times (men’s), the Skyline Coach of the Year Award nine times (six men’s/three women’s) and the Metropolitan Conference Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year twice in 2004 and 2006. In 2005 and 2008, the Academy named him the recipient of the Coach Omeletchenko Coach of the Year Award.

During his tenure, the Blue and Gray have made 61 standards for the NCAA Division III Championships and the men’s team has finished in the top 30 at the national meet eight times in Tedesco’s nine seasons at the helm. After placing 30th during his first two years, USMMA placed 19th nationally in 2004 behind Joel Meyer, who was named National Diver of the Year. The 2005-06 team placed 21st at the NCAA Division III Championships as well as the 06-07 team placing 25th, the 07-08 team placing 25th, the 08-09 team placing 23rd behind Nick Halbach, who was also named National Diver of the Year. In 2009-10, the team placed 29th.

Tedesco has coached nine All-Americans with 22 All-American certificates. He has also coached 26 NCAA qualifiers and seen 90 Academy records and 106 conference/pool records broken. His 2001-02 and 2006-07 teams earned Academic All-America honors. Also, his athletes have gained eight Academic All-American honors.

Prior to his arrival at Kings Point, Tedesco served as the top assistant men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Villanova University. His responsibilities included designing, organizing and running swim, dry land and weight training workouts for the teams while also coordinating all recruiting efforts. At Villanova, he coached one Olympian, three U.S. Olympic Trial qualifiers, two Canadian Olympic Trial qualifiers, one NCAA Champion and eight NCAA qualifiers. Furthermore, the women’s team placed second at the Big East Championships in 1999.

Tedesco earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut in 1998, where he was a member of the men’s swimming and diving team. He earned the University Senior Athlete Award in 1998 and garnered Most Valuable Swimmer honors in 1996 and 1998. Additionally, Tedesco was a NCAA Division I qualifier, a Senior National qualifier and a Big East Champion in the 200-yard breaststroke. The Huskies were named a Big East Conference All Academic Team in 1996 and 1997 with Tedesco on the roster. The coach went on to earn a master’s degree in business administration from Adelphi University in 2003.

Tedesco still stays active in his free time. From 2006-2008 he earned Triathlete All-American honors. He also completed the 2004 Wisconsin Ironman Triathlon.

Tedesco currently resided in East Meadow with his wife, Marissa and their daughters, Abigail and Amanda.