HEAD COACH:
Martie Staser, (585) 389-2198
mstaser3@naz.edu

To say that Martie Staser’s first season as men’s and women’s swim coach at Nazareth was successful would qualify as an understatement.

Nazareth’s women’s team enjoyed, perhaps, its best season ever in 2004-05, finishing 10-1 in dual meets, winning 13 Empire 8 Conference titles, breaking 13 school records and sending two swimmers to the NCAA championship meet. The other conference coaches were impressed enough to vote Staser E8 Coach of the Year.

Staser, a former swimming standout at the University at Buffalo, was named head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Nazareth in September, 2004. She replaced Rick Aronberg, who coached the Golden Flyers for 11 seasons.

Staser grew up in New Hampshire, then swam scholastically at Germantown Academy near Philadelphia. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from UB, where she was a four-year letterwinner in swimming and a Mid-Continent Conference champion in four events. She served as team captain in 1995-96 and 1996-97 and was a first-team all-conference selection all four seasons there.

Staser’s most recent position was as academic advisor for intercollegiate athletics at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Ill. She also was coordinator of the university’s Life Skills Program and advisor to the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. In Illinois, she was an assistant swim coach at the Edwardsville YMCA.

Staser also has coaching experience at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, Hazelwood Elite Aquatic Team in Missouri, and the Nickel City Splash Swim Club in Buffalo.

At UB, Staser won conference titles in the 1650 free, 500 free, 200 fly, and 400 IM. Other accolades included selection as Academic All-Conference in 1994, 1996, and 1997.

In addition to coaching swimming and serving as aquatics director, Staser teaches classes in Nazareth’s Life Skills Program.