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Andrew Pulsifer
Head Swimming Coach
Director of Aquatics
Contact Information
Phone: 828-771-3005
E-mail: apulsifer@warren-wilson.edu
Warren Wilson College has named Andrew Pulsifer as its new men's and women's swimming coach. Pulsifer is a graduate of Virginia Tech and has twelve years of collegiate coaching experience at Washington and Lee University (VA) and Emory University (GA). He earned his master's degree from Georgia State University in sports administration in 1996.
During his tenure as head men's swimming coach at Washington and Lee, Pulsifer continued the 28-year streak of sending at least one person to the NCAA Division-III National Championships. Six of his swimmers earned NCAA qualifying times with three of them garnering All-America honors. The men broke five varsity records and had four earn Academic honors, including one who won the GTE Academic All-America award.
Pulsifer graduated from Virginia Tech in 1988 with a degree in broadcast communications. He joined the staff at Emory as an assistant men's and women's swimming coach in 1989, while working for a broadcast news network. Pulsifer helped the Emory women's team to top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships six times and helped the men's team to two top-12 finishes.
The Woodbridge, Virginia, native was a four-year letter winner in swimming at Virginia Tech and served as a captain his junior and senior seasons for the Hokies. He was a four meet qualifier for the U.S. Swimming Senior Nationals in the 100 and 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley.
Pulsifer has spent the past five years working in Maine with L.L.Bean in Customer Satisfaction and Retail, including two summers spent on the coastal waters with the Outdoor Discovery School as a Registered Maine Sea Kayak Guide. He holds certification with the American Swimming Coaches Association, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, the National Swimming Pool Foundation and the American Red Cross. He continues to train for U.S. Masters Swimming meets in the pool and open water, loves to hike, run, bike and body surf, and do all these things with his wife, Emily, and their two boys.