Astrid Escobar was named head coach of Fredonia State’s men's and women's swimming and diving programs May 20, 2019.
In her first season with the Blue Devils, two individuals and one relay earned All-SUNYAC honors at the conference championship meet and four school records were broken. A total of 14 athletes were named to the SUNYAC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for the 2019-20 academic year and both the men’s and women’s team captured the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America All-America award for the 2020 spring semester.
Escobar joined Fredonia State following one season as the interim assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. During her time with the Eagles, the team broke eight school records and sent five athletes to the NCAA DIII championship meet. Prior to UWL, Escobar coached for three years at Hamilton College – two as the Continentals’ assistant coach and one as the interim head coach and aquatics director.
Escobar has also spent summers coaching at different swimming camps across the country such as University of Georgia’s Bauerle Bulldog Swim Camp, Harvard’s Technique Academy, and Kenyon’s Total Performance Camp.
A 2014 graduate of Sewanee: The University of the South, Escobar was a three-time NCAA Division III All-America in the breaststroke and an 11-time conference champion -- three in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and eight in the Southern Athletic Association. She set Sewanee’s school and pool records in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events and was a member of both school-record setting 200- and 400-yard medley relay teams. Escobar was the 2014 Sewanee Senior Athlete of the Year, the 2014 Evelyn J. Mooney Award winner as the top senior female athlete, the Bishop Juhan Award winner for excellence in swimming, and a Vice Chancellor's Scholar for Scholarship and Leadership.
Along with being a student-athlete, she was a member of the University’s Hispanic Organization for Latino Awareness, the social and service sorority Phi Kappa Epsilon, and served as a university proctor and a private swim instructor. Following graduation, she was a counselor during the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference.
