Colorado Mesa University Athletics

2025-26 is Andy Parro's fifth with the CMU Swimming & Diving team.  He was promoted to the role of head coach early in the season and continues to serve 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 four of his previous years as the Mavs' top assistant coach.

The Maverick women have also finished in the top five at the NCAA Division II National Championships in each of the previous four years, taking second in 2024 and third in 2025.  CMU’s men have two fifth place national championship finishes and have finished no lower than ninth in Parro’s four years.

The Maverick swimmers have also combined to win 13 individual and four relay NCAA Division II National Championships over the past four years, including 11 titles in 2024 alone.
 
The Maverick athletes have also combined to win 283 total CSCAA All-America honors and have claimed 106 RMAC event wins in the past four seasons with Parro on the Maverick staff.

Parro joined the staff the fall of 2021 after 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.