Head Coach: Brian Carver 

Coach Brian Carver comes to Pingree Swimming with over 30 years of experience teaching and coaching swimming.  He was the head coach of two YMCA age-group teams over 6 years, and spent more than a decade as a team manager for Manhattan College Swimming (D-I).  Additionally, Coach Carver was the head coach of the Riverdale Country School (Bronx, NY) high school team for 22 years, which in that time collected 7 NYC Ivy Preparatory League Championships and sent more than 40 athletes to swim at all collegiate levels. Coach Carver and his family live in Ipswich.

Assistant Coach: Wesley Snyder

Wesley is joining the Pingree community as a Teaching Fellow in the Mathematics Department. They bring a variety of athletic experience, including playing as the goalkeeper on their high school soccer team. Wesley will be coaching with the soccer and swimming programs at Pingree. Their favorite part of being a coach is watching students gain confidence and build lifelong friendships. 

Assistant Coach: Erin VanTuyl 

Coach VanTuyl believes “You have to go for it, if you don’t, you won’t get it, so I went for it!” Since then, her athletic accomplishments include podiums in triathlons, competing in Xterra Off Road Nationals in Utah, competing in Xterra Worlds in Hawaii, she is a 6-time Women’s Champion (aka Braveheart Lassie) at the Berkshire East Pentathlon. Recently placed 2nd in the 2023 Mount Washington Tuckerman’s Inferno and her Dek Hockey Team won the 2019 & 2021 season championships. Her coaching career started as a ski instructor at Wachusett Mountain in the mid-90’s.  In 2016 she started a mountain bike camp which led to a mountain bike race team. The team competes in the New England Youth Cycling League. Coach VanTuyl is excited to bring my coaching enthusiasm to the Pingree athletic department. Her philosophy for coaching is to provide an atmosphere which encourages athletes to compete to their best ability while having fun.