Rueppel is now in his second season at the helm of the men’s and women’s swimming programs as well as the director of the college’s natatorium. He came to Middlebury from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn., where he has served as the men’s and women’s coach since 2001.

During his 10-year run at F&M, Rueppel’s teams won 10 conference titles (7 men, 3 women) and broke nearly 90 school records. He coached three NCAA Champions, 37 All-Americans as well as five Academic All-Americans, while his teams earned Team Academic All-American honors for nine straight years. His athletes won Centennial Conference individual titles 139 times, setting 55 Conference marks. Rueppel’s men’s team compiled a 44-10 mark in dual conference meets during his tenure, while the women were 53-10. He was named the Centennial Conference’s inaugural Coach of the Year in 2010.

Rueppel is a 1983 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, where he received a degree in business administration and management. He began his coaching career at his alma mater in 1983, taking over the reins of the women’s program until 1989. He worked as an assistant at Wright State University in Ohio from 1994-1995 before becoming the head men’s and women’s coach at Wittenberg University, also in Ohio, from 1995-2001. At Wittenberg, where he coached 33 All-Americans, his athletes broke 58 school records, and the team earned Academic All-American honors for six consecutive seasons.

Diving Coach: Lisa Gibbs - sgibbsvt@aol.com
Gibbs begins her 15^th season at Middlebury as head men’s and women’s diving coach. Since taking over the diving duties, Panther divers have gained national prominence. In 2001, Middlebury boasted its first NCAA diving champion in school history, Derek Chicarilli. Two years later, the women did the same as Tessa Truex captured a title. As a results, Gibbs was named the National Diving Coach of the Year in ’01, while earning NESCAC honors six times.

Gibbs competed as a collegiate diver and cheerleader for Syracuse from ’77-’81, where she earned her degree in nursing. After moving to Vermont, she began her coaching career at the University of Vermont as head coach from ’85-’96. As a competitive athlete and coach, she brings with her a wide assortment of experience to draw upon as she continues to lead the Panther divers.

As a mother of three, Gibbs balances her coaching responsibilities with her job as a neonatal intensive care nurse in Burlington, where she resides with her husband Scott.

Asst. Coach: Dan Vogel - dvogel@middlebury.edu

Vogel enters his second season as assistant coach for both women’s and men’s swimming & diving at Middlebury College. 

Vogel graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in ’09 with a degree in Anthropology and an English minor.  He was a four-year member of the men’s swimming program under current Middlebury swimming head coach, Bob Rueppel. 

In the pool, Vogel was a part of four Centennial Conference Championship winning teams.  He was a four-year conference finalist in multiple events, specializing in distance freestyle for F&M.  Vogel was also a member of the student athletic advisory committee.

Before coming to Middlebury, Vogel spent the 2010-2011 year at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus as the Assistant Coordinator of Athletic Operations and Special Events.

Daly enters his first season as an assistant coach for both women’s and men’s swimming & diving team at Middlebury College.

Daly graduated from Middlebury in ’12 with a thesis degree in Geology.  He was a four-year varsity swimmer for Middlebury where he specialized in the 50, 100, 200 distance freestyle, as well as the 50 and 100 butterfly.

At Middlebury, Daly was a four-time All-American and helped lead the team to seventh and 10^th place finishes Nationally in 2010 and 2011 respectively.  Daly also played four years of water polo while at Middlebury where he was named captain his senior year.