Noah Moran was picked to start the Buccaneer swimming programs in the spring of 2023, bringing 20 years of NCAA experience at all three levels, as well as international experience to the Bucs.
Moran spent the 2022-23 season as the assistant coach at NCAA Division I Cleveland State, helping lead the men to a 4-3 dual meet record and third place in the Horizon League and the women to a 3-5 mark and fifth place in the league.
Prior to CSU, Moran spent three seasons at D-III Wittenberg, the first as the interim head coach before being elevated into the permanent position from 2019-21. In his interim season with the Tigers, Moran helped several athletes accomplish both season- and career-best times in their specialty strokes. The men’s team finished the campaign with a dual meet record of 5-3, which included head-to-head wins over NCAC members Oberlin and Hiram. On the women’s side the team posted a dual meet record of 2-7, but both of those victories also came in conference against Oberlin and Hiram. The Tigers concluded the season in mid-February at the NCAC Championships where the men finished ninth with 449 points and the women finished eighth overall with 477 total points.
Moran had spent three seasons as the head coach at Tiffin, helping lead five swimmers to the NCAA Division II Championships. In that time, he also implemented new training methods that led to student-athletes recording 34 new school records.
Prior to Tiffin, Noah spent a season as an assistant coach at Colgate University and then went on to spend a year with the Turkish Swimming Federation, working as the head coach at the Ankara High-Performance Center.
Moran began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Eastern Michigan for eight seasons before moving into an assistant role for seven seasons. In his first year, the men’s and women’s team both won the Mid-American Conference title, a first in the history of the program. EMU finished in first place in the Mid-American Conference all but one year with the men’s team.
Moran swam at Eastern Michigan University for five years, helping the Eagles to four Mid-American Conference Championships and a 32-13 overall record, and a 21-3 mark in league meets.
Moran earned his bachelor of science from Eastern Michigan in political science and communications in 1997. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Detroit-Mercy in 2003.
