Dartmouth head swimming & diving coach Jesse Moore has resigned his position, he informed the team on Tuesday.
In the 2021-2022 season, Moore’s only as head coach at Dartmouth, the Big Green finished 8th out of 8 teams in the men’s meet and 7th out of 8 teams in the women’s meet, the same as they finished in the prior championship in 2020.
Moore took over the Dartmouth program as head coach in April 2021. The team was coming out of the COVID-19 season where not only did the Ivy League cancel all competition, but the school cut, and then reinstated, the swimming & diving programs.
Moore spent the prior three seasons at Minnesota, where he oversaw the middle distance and IM groups, coordinated recruiting, and managed rosters for both the men’s and women’s programs. While at Minnesota, Moore coached 33 NCAA qualifiers and helped both the men’s and women’s team earn top 20 finishes at the 2019 NCAA Championships.
Before coming to Minnesota, Moore served as the associate head coach at Northwestern University, where he coached all training groups, led recruiting efforts, managed social media accounts, and coordinated team travel. During his time there, the team thrived in both the pool and the classroom, making it to NCAAs in both 2017 and 2018 and earning multiple CSCAA All-America and Big Ten individual honors.
Prior to Northwestern, Moore also worked as an assistant coach at Duke (2012-16), and at his alma mater William & Mary (2010-12), where he earned his MBA while working as an assistant coach.
Moore launched his coaching career in 2008, working as a graduate assistant academic advisor at Drexel for two years. In this role, he advised students from several different athletic teams and worked as a volunteer assistant coach with the swimming and diving teams.
Suggestion for Joann Brislin to take the reigns of both teams….
Bring Holder back.
Jesse Moore is heading to Cal to become the assistant coach for the women’s team.
The next Head Coach at Notre Dame will be Chris Lindauer who is the Associate Head Coach at Louisville.
Heard it was USC…told Dartmouth AD he was having personal issues and couldn’t stay. This lacks integrity all around. Do what you want but own you to it. He also recruited a Minnesota commit to D for next season when he first joined and now is leaving her high and dry?? Not good form all around.
Yea what he did was bad, but nothing compares to Brett Lathrope current head coach at LIU for water polo. That homie quit the team after one season, a month before preseason started for a reduced pay job. Homie didn’t even tell the team to their face, and left coaches off of the email saying that he resigned. His email when he quit said I took an assistant coaching position at UCLA, good luck at D3 Nationals. Nothing compares to that.
The team also went to bat for him to get the job. He wasn’t going to get the job, until the team said that they believed in him.
This is typical coach behavior IMO.
Looking at his resume, his longest job held was MIT head coach for 1 year and 4 months. The rest just 4-10 months top.
Decimated the team, nearly every Sophmore an Junior left this fall because he treated them so poorly and then he leaves. Dartmouth better without him. Not a coach I would be hiring.
Do you have inside information on why people stepped away? If not then you probably should not be trash talking a coach or a program. Lets return to human decency and just hope for the best for Dartmouth S&D going forward.
Mac’s statement is 100% correct. Look at the roster – for the rising juniors there are 5 (3 girls, 2 boys) and 5 rising seniors (2 girls, 3 boys) with 2 members of the original class of 2023 taking fifth years. Over a dozen people quit this season alone and all of them cited Jesse as either the primary or secondary reason for retiring. Seemed like there was a person quitting every week. Jesse had unrealistic expectations and demands for those who were on the team when it was cut and fought for reinstatement…when people pushed back or tried to reason with him he was firm on his stances. It’s great to be a drill sergeant every once in a… Read more »
Since you asked, yes I do and am entitled to my opinion which is not trash talk. And, if you don’t like it you could simply scroll by…THAT would be the decent thing to do.
Jesse is a great coach and while i agree it isn’t great optics to leave after only a year, I think it likely says more about the Dartmouth athletic department’s commitment to the program than it does about Jesse as a person or coach.
They’ve tried to cut this team at least twice in the last 20 years already, Assuming he has a good deal lined up as Braden reported in these comments, I understand why he might leave the situation if the writing on the wall from the admin is that it may/will happen for good in the near future… hope not but that’s the read I get. Gutted for the kids who have been through A LOT… Read more »
So the rumor is he’s headed to Cal. Again it sucks for the Dartmouth kids, but it’s hard to fault Jesse for leaving a situation with little to no institutional support, for an opportunity like that
No excuse to bail on a program after a year. Unfair to the kids and the school. That being said, everything in the upper valley has become almost prohibitively expensive for anybody making less than $100,000 or so and he’s not the only one to leave. Big city prices with rural, small town salaries. Sounds like his character may have played a bigger role, but $2000/month studio apartments in a town of 10,000 couldn’t have helped
Dartmouth provides reduced rent apartments for its staff and faculty. Don’t think that was as big a deal as you suggest.
are there really swimmers in chi gam?