"To provide a caring, family environment for the purpose of promoting physical fitness and health to individuals of varying abilities through the sport of swimming".
Andrew Pulsifer
AMS Coach
AMS is pleased to welcome Coach Andrew Pulsifer to our team.
Warren Wilson College named Andrew Pulsifer as its new men's and women's swimming coach and Director of Aquatics in July of 2008, marking his return to full-time coaching after a six year hiatus. Pulsifer is a 1988 graduate of Virginia Tech and now has 13 years of collegiate coaching experience, including five years as head men's coach at Washington and Lee University (VA) and seven years of teaching and assistant coaching at Emory University (GA). He earned his master's degree from Georgia State University in sports administration in 1996.
After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in broadcast communications, and while working for an all-news cable network in Atlanta, Pulsifer joined the staff at Emory as an assistant men's and women's swimming coach in 1989. During his time there, and while at W&L, Pulsifer coached athletes to the NCAA Division III nationals each year, with over 40 athletes earning some form of NCAA individual National Championship, All-America honors, GTE Academic All-America awards and top-10 team awards.
Pulsifer has also enjoyed swimming with masters groups in Georgia (coached at Dynamo Swim Club 1995-97), Virginia (coached at Rockbridge County Aquatics 1998-2002), and Maine (Maine Masters Swim Club) at both open water and pool meets. He always finds his way to the local pool, and inevitably competes a couple times a year. Pulsifer has enjoyed helping world class tri-athletes, masters swimmers and recreational swimmers make improvements to their stroke and fitness levels as they've prepared for every level of competition.
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 Kayaking 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.
The California born, Virginia native was a four-year letter winner and two-year team captain while swimming for the Hokies in Blacksburg. Andrew is a six-time U.S. Masters Swimming National Champion, he qualified for the USA National Championships from 1986-1988 and swam on the 1987 USA Swimming Short Course National Championship Team for the Mission Bay Makos. He continues to train for swimming events in the pool and open water, enjoys hiking, running, ocean kayaking and body surfing. He loves to do all these things with his wife, Emily, and their two awesome boys.
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