Coaching at all levels: From one-on-one private lessons to group instruction

Ed brings 38-plus years of swimming and coaching expertise to the pool. All that follows a career as a pharmacist, biochemist and physiologist. With degrees in chemistry, infectious diseases, public health and nutrition, Ed offers his swimmers a much wider range of knowledge and expertise than most swim coaches. He is the national librarian for United States Masters Swimming and has coached at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Ed has been coach/mentor to the current fastest swimmer in the world, Cullen Jones, who grew up swimming for Ed in NJ.


Ed coached masters swimming, ran the racing camps and swim clinics at Rutgers University for five years while producing several NJ, high school state champions and junior and senior USA national qualifiers out of his USA swim program.


He has coached Olympians, NCAA and senior national champions as well as high school All-Americas.


His pertinent, timely and enlightening articles have been published in many medical, scientific and athletic journals  throughout the USA, and have been translated into several languages. He has an upcoming book, Swim to Win, due out in 2008, from Sterling Publications, NYC.

Name: Ed Nessel

Coaching credentials:

Level 5 ASCA certified, the highest level achievable.

College: Rutgers University

Degrees: Pharmacy, infectious diseases, chemistry

Experience: 38-plus years

Swim Quote: Make friends with the water.

First published book: Swim to Win, available at Barnes & Noble and amazon.com

Ed assisted by

Lee Nessel


Ed’s daughter

Lee assists with the underwater videography and shares her knowledge and experience as a Division I

scholarship swimmer at the University of Miami and a national record holder in YMCA Masters swimming.

Learn more about Lee at leeswims.com

Coach Nessel with Cullen Jones, 2008 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder, at a summer racing camp in Brevard County, Florida.

Kristina Lennox, 2008 Olympian for Puerto Rico, and Ed.

Gary Hall, Jr, left, and Cullen Jones stepping up for the finals of the 50-meter free at Olympic Trials, July 5, 2008.