Erik Ripley is an assistant swimming coach at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, joining the program in 2023. Before arriving at Drexel, he spent one year as Director of Swimming at Chowan University and previously served as an assistant coach at Saint Leo University from 2018 to 2021 and at McClintock High School from 2016 to 2017. He also worked privately with high school athletes on racing and technique.
Ripley competed at Towson University, where he was a four-year letter winner on the swimming and diving team and received the Tiger Spirit Award. He earned a bachelor's degree in sport management with a minor in business administration from Towson and completed an MBA at Saint Leo University in 2021.
