Scott Trompeter - Men's Swimming and Diving Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

Scott Trompeter

Title:
Assistant Coach, Swimming
Email:
Scott.Trompeter@gcu.edu

Scott Trompeter enters his foirth year at GCU as assistant men’s and women’s swimming coach in 2024-25.

The Lopes have now taken second in both the men's and women's WAC competition's for two straight years. The men also took 3rd out of 36 at the CSCAA National Invitational Championship.

In his second season, Trompeter assisted in coaching the Lopes to their best combined finish in program history where the Lopes finished second in both the men's and women's Western Athletic Conference Championships. At the conference championships, the Lopes accounted for two WAC records, six team records, eighteen NCAA B Cuts, thirty podium finishes, twelve gold medals, eleven silver medals, seven bronze medals, 138 personal best times.

Trompeter spent after six years with the Division III Trinity Tigers after being appointed head coach in 2017. Before he became the head coach, he served two years as an assistant coach under long-time head coach John Ryan in 2015 and 2016.

In 2020, Trompeter had seven Trinity swimmers qualify for the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships before the event was canceled. He also led Trinity’s teams to a 2020 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Championship. Trompeter and his staff were also elected the SCAC Men’s and Women’s Staff of the Year.

Four Trinity student-athletes have been elected SCAC Male and Female Swimmers of the Year during his tenure. In addition, 10 Tiger swimmers earned All-America and Honorable Mention All-America accolades during his tenure.

Before his time at Trinity, Trompeter served as a graduate assistant for three years at the NCAA Division I University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. He coached the Cardinals to the NCAA Division II Championships in 2013 before moving up to Division I. UIW’s men finished third with the women’s team placing fourth at Nationals. In 2014, Trompeter earned his Master of Arts in administration with a concentration in sport management.

At the high school level, he served as a head coach for elite age-group swimmers of San Antonio’s North East Independent School District’s Alamo Area Aquatic Association team from 2011-2012. Trompeter also has experience as a high school assistant coach and mentored high school state champions. He was employed at the University of Texas Swim Camp as the head coach for the Mueller Swim Team in Austin.

Trompeter was a member of the University of Texas at Austin’s men swim team from 2005-2009. He helped lead the Longhorns to two second-place finishes at the NCAA Division I Championships in 2008 and 2009. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in corporate communications in 2010 from the University of Texas at Austin.