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American football coach (born c. 1982)

Dan Swanstrom
Current position
Swanstrom in 2024
Title	Head coach
Team	Cornell
Conference	Ivy League
Record	4–6
Biographical details
Born	c. 1982 (age 41–42)
Alma mater	Rhodes College (2005) University of Redlands (2008)
Playing career
2001–2004	Rhodes
2005	Darmstadt Diamonds

Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005	Stratford HS (TX) (assistant)
2006–2008	Redlands (QB/WR)
2008	Johns Hopkins (QB)
2009	Johns Hopkins (OC/QB)
2010–2013	Johns Hopkins (AHC/OC/QB)
2014–2016	Penn (QB/RC)
2017–2021	Ithaca
2022–2023	Penn (OC/QB)
2024–present	Cornell

Head coaching record
Overall	36–17
Bowls	1–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 Liberty League (2017–2018, 2021)

Daniel Swanstrom (born c. 1982) is an American college football coach. He is the 28th and current head football coach for Cornell University, a position he has held since the 2024 season. He was the head football coach for Ithaca College from 2017 to 2021.

Early life

Swanstrom played college football for Rhodes College as a quarterback, graduating in 2005, and played professionally for the Darmstadt Diamonds of the German Football League (GFL). At Rhodes, Swanstrom served twice as a team captain. He is a 2019 inductee to the Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame, having held the program records for passing yards in a single season and total offensive yards at the time of his graduation.

Coaching career

Swanstrom began his football coaching career as an assistant in 2005 at Stratford High School in Texas. Among the players Swanstrom coached at Stratford was future NFL first overall draft pick Andrew Luck. Following his stint at Stratford, Swanstrom entered college coaching as a graduate assistant coach of quarterbacks and wide receivers at Redlands from 2006 to 2007. Swanstrom then joined Johns Hopkins, first as an assistant coach and then as associate head coach and ultimately as offensive coordinator from 2008 to 2013. Following his tenure at Johns Hopkins, Swanstrom began the first of his two stints at Penn, as recruiting and quarterbacks coach from 2014 to 2016.

Swanstrom received his first head coaching position at Division III Ithaca College, where he helped lead the Bombers to a 32–11 record and three Liberty League championships over the course of four seasons of play (the 2020 season having been cancelled). Swanstrom returned to Penn for a second stint, this time as offensive coordinator, from 2022 to 2023. The Cornell Big Red named Swanstrom its next head coach, succeeding David Archer, in December 2023.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AFCA	D3
Ithaca Bombers (Liberty League) (2017–2021)
2017	Ithaca	8–3	4–1	T–1st	W Whitelaw
2018	Ithaca	8–3	4–1	T–1st	L Whitelaw
2019	Ithaca	8–3	4–2	T–2nd	L Bushnell
2020–21	No team—COVID-19
2021	Ithaca	8–2	5–1	T–1st		24	21
Ithaca:		32–11	17–4
Cornell Big Red (Ivy League) (2024–present)
2024	Cornell	4–6	3–4	5th
Cornell:		4–6	3–4
Total:		36–17
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

References

^ Sacco, Mario (December 7, 2023). "Dan Swanstrom named football Head Coach at Cornell". WSYR. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
"Daniel Swanstrom (2019)". Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame. Rhodes College Athletics. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
^ Anbinder, Mark H. (December 7, 2023). ""Impactful" coach Dan Swanstrom returning to Ithaca to lead Big Red Football". 14850.com. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
"Cornell names 28th head football coach". WHCU. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023.

External links

v t e Ithaca Bombers head football coaches
Leonard Schreck (1930) Bucky Freeman (1931–1942) No team (1943–1945) Bucky Freeman (1946) Pete Hatch (1947–1950) Joseph Hamilton (1951–1955) Art Orloske (1956–1957) Richard S. Lyon (1958–1966) Jim Butterfield (1967–1993) Mike Welch (1994–2016) Dan Swanstrom (2017–2019) No team (2020) Dan Swanstrom (2021) Michael Toerper (2022– )

v t e Cornell Big Red head football coaches
No coach (1887–1891) Carl Johanson (1892–1893) Marshall Newell (1894–1895) George Sanford (1896) Pop Warner (1897–1898) Percy Haughton (1899–1900) Raymond Starbuck (1901–1902) Bill Warner (1903) Pop Warner (1904–1906) Henry Schoellkopf (1907–1908) George Walder (1909) Daniel A. Reed (1910–1911) Albert Sharpe (1912–1917) No team (1918) John H. Rush (1919) Gil Dobie (1920–1935) Carl Snavely (1936–1944) Edward McKeever (1945–1946) George K. James (1947–1960) Tom Harp (1961–1965) Jack Musick (1966–1974) George Seifert (1975–1976) Bob Blackman (1977–1982) Maxie Baughan (1983–1988) Jack Fouts (1989) Jim Hofher (1990–1997) Pete Mangurian (1998–2000) Tim Pendergast (2001–2003) Jim Knowles (2004–2009) Kent Austin (2010–2012) David Archer (2013–2019) No team (2020) David Archer (2021–2023) Dan Swanstrom (2024– )

Cornell Big Red head football coaches

No coach (1887–1891)
Carl Johanson (1892–1893)
Marshall Newell (1894–1895)
George Sanford (1896)
Pop Warner (1897–1898)
Percy Haughton (1899–1900)
Raymond Starbuck (1901–1902)
Bill Warner (1903)
Pop Warner (1904–1906)
Henry Schoellkopf (1907–1908)
George Walder (1909)
Daniel A. Reed (1910–1911)
Albert Sharpe (1912–1917)
No team (1918)
John H. Rush (1919)
Gil Dobie (1920–1935)
Carl Snavely (1936–1944)
Edward McKeever (1945–1946)
George K. James (1947–1960)
Tom Harp (1961–1965)
Jack Musick (1966–1974)
George Seifert (1975–1976)
Bob Blackman (1977–1982)
Maxie Baughan (1983–1988)
Jack Fouts (1989)
Jim Hofher (1990–1997)
Pete Mangurian (1998–2000)
Tim Pendergast (2001–2003)
Jim Knowles (2004–2009)
Kent Austin (2010–2012)
David Archer (2013–2019)
No team (2020)
David Archer (2021–2023)
Dan Swanstrom (2024– )

v t e Head football coaches of the Ivy League
James Perry (Brown) Jon Poppe (Columbia) Dan Swanstrom (Cornell) Sammy McCorkle (Dartmouth) Andrew Aurich (Harvard) Ray Priore (Penn) Bob Surace (Princeton) Tony Reno (Yale)

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