Women's Swimming & Diving
Chelsea Piper
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- ChelseaP@gators.ufl.edu
- Phone:
- 4515
Coach Chelsea Piper enters her first season as Assistant Coach for the Florida swimming and diving program in 2026-27.
Piper served as Associate Head Coach (2024-26) and Recruiting Coordinator (2019-26) for the Vanderbilt University Swimming program for the last seven seasons.
At Vanderbilt:
During her time at Vanderbilt, Piper added 30 student-athletes who have recorded 79 top-10 program performances, set a combined 24 school and freshman records and posted a new program mark in 15 individual events and all five relays.
Piper coached several of the program’s top performers, including Kailia Utley, Faith Knelson, Mercedes Traba, Emily Constable, Aubrey Hull, Ellie Taliaferro, Reagan Mathieson and Sophia Kosturos. Under her guidance in the 2023-24 season, the first Commodore in 30 years qualified for the NCAA Championship, while Vanderbilt produced CSCAA National Invitational competitors, multiple Scholar All-Americans and numerous SEC finalists while posting the program’s strongest SEC championships results since 2007.
Beyond success in the pool during the 2023-24 campaign, Piper helped Vanderbilt achieve record team GPAs and consistently rank among the SEC’s top academic programs, with nearly every student-athlete earning conference academic honors during the season.
More on Chelsea Piper:
A native of Seattle, Washington, Piper has always had a passion for the water. During her 14 years of competitive swimming, she qualified multiple times for World Trials, NCAA Championships and national championships, and competed in the 2016 Olympic Trials.
Piper attended, graduated, and swam for San Diego State, earning a bachelor’s degree in Social Science with an emphasis in Psychology in 2015. An All-American each of her final two seasons, Piper also competed in eight different events at the 2014 and ‘15 NCAA Championships. A 15-time All-Mountain West Conference selection during her collegiate career, Piper served as team captain for the Aztecs two years, was recognized as a scholar-athlete after earning dean’s list recognition, and participated as an active member of the school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Upon completion of the Olympic Trials she became an assistant coach at Seattle University, where she guided the sprint group to a successful 2018-19 season before going to Vanderbilt.
Piper received her master’s degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Psychology from Grand Canyon in 2019.
Piper served as Associate Head Coach (2024-26) and Recruiting Coordinator (2019-26) for the Vanderbilt University Swimming program for the last seven seasons.
At Vanderbilt:
During her time at Vanderbilt, Piper added 30 student-athletes who have recorded 79 top-10 program performances, set a combined 24 school and freshman records and posted a new program mark in 15 individual events and all five relays.
Piper coached several of the program’s top performers, including Kailia Utley, Faith Knelson, Mercedes Traba, Emily Constable, Aubrey Hull, Ellie Taliaferro, Reagan Mathieson and Sophia Kosturos. Under her guidance in the 2023-24 season, the first Commodore in 30 years qualified for the NCAA Championship, while Vanderbilt produced CSCAA National Invitational competitors, multiple Scholar All-Americans and numerous SEC finalists while posting the program’s strongest SEC championships results since 2007.
Beyond success in the pool during the 2023-24 campaign, Piper helped Vanderbilt achieve record team GPAs and consistently rank among the SEC’s top academic programs, with nearly every student-athlete earning conference academic honors during the season.
More on Chelsea Piper:
A native of Seattle, Washington, Piper has always had a passion for the water. During her 14 years of competitive swimming, she qualified multiple times for World Trials, NCAA Championships and national championships, and competed in the 2016 Olympic Trials.
Piper attended, graduated, and swam for San Diego State, earning a bachelor’s degree in Social Science with an emphasis in Psychology in 2015. An All-American each of her final two seasons, Piper also competed in eight different events at the 2014 and ‘15 NCAA Championships. A 15-time All-Mountain West Conference selection during her collegiate career, Piper served as team captain for the Aztecs two years, was recognized as a scholar-athlete after earning dean’s list recognition, and participated as an active member of the school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Upon completion of the Olympic Trials she became an assistant coach at Seattle University, where she guided the sprint group to a successful 2018-19 season before going to Vanderbilt.
Piper received her master’s degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Psychology from Grand Canyon in 2019.
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