Colorado Mesa University Athletics

Andy Parro is in his fourth year as the top assistant coach for the CMU Swimming & Diving team.  He also serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator.

His talents on and off the pool deck have helped the Mavericks sweep the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference titles in all three of his previous years.  The Mavs have also been climbing the national ladder throughout Parro’s tenure, taking second (women’s) and fifth (men’s) at last year’s NCAA Division II Championships, the program’s highest finishes while scoring more and more national championship points in every year.

The men and women have finished amongst the nation’s top six in all six opportunities during Parro’s tenure.

CMU’s swimmers have also combined to win 11 individual plus three relay NCAA Division II National Championships over the past three years, including 11 national championships in 2024 alone.

The Maverick athletes have also combined to win 201 total CSCAA All-America honors and have claimed 79 RMAC event wins in the past three years.

Parro joined the staff the fall of 2021after serving as the head coach for two seasons from 2018-20 at the Illinois Institute of Tech in his native city of Chicago.
 
In 2020, he led the Scarlet Hawk men to a Liberal Arts Conference team title and was named as the conference’s coach of the year.  He also guided the Scarlet Hawk women to a third place finish and guided the program’s first-ever NCAA Division III Championship Qualifier in Anna Slominksi in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke.
 
Before coaching in the college ranks, Parro served as the head boys and girls swimming coach at Whitney Young High School in Chicago.  In his eight seasons of what was his first coaching job, Parro coached the Dolphins to seven conference championships and coached five high school all-Americans and several Illinois State Championship qualifiers.
 
Parro was a collegiate swimmer as well, competing at the University of Illinois-Chicago from 2007-09, where he was a Horizon League Finalist.
 
Parro, an outdoor enthusiast, and his wife Sarah have three children: Braydon, Logan and Lilliana.