SALEM, Va. – The Roanoke College athletic department announced Friday the promotion of Maroon assistant coach Nick Breschi to head men's and women's swimming coach.  

After two years as an assistant at Roanoke, Breschi moves up to the head spot after Brandon Ress recently left the College to serve as an assistant at Division I UNC Wilmington.

"I am grateful and excited to be here with this opportunity to lead this team," said Breschi. "This is an amazing team with a great culture and I am excited to continue to build upon that legacy."

The Maroon women's team finished second in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship this winter in Greensboro, N.C., while the men's team placed third. Junior Lily Mullens became the first Maroon swimmer since 2019 to be invited and go to NCAA competition.

Breschi joined the Roanoke staff after spending four years as the head swimming coach and aquatics director at Loyola Blakefield, a Catholic college preparatory school for boys in grades 6–12 located in Towson, Maryland. Loyola had won 20 out of 21 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) championships, six National Catholic Swimming championships, and is one of the premier high school swim programs in the country. Prior to his time at Loyola, Breschi and Ress were teammates at Towson University.