Eric Scheingoltz enters his seventh season at the helm of the Men’s and Women’s Swimming teams. Since taking over the Rangers have showed steady improvement. In his first season Eric was able to reestablish some Ranger Pride and put 78 new entries onto Drew’s All-Time Top 15 Performances List. He help the men and women swimmers achieve 64 New Life Time Best Swims from 18 athletes during the 2009 Landmark Conference Meet. Last season after 63 Life Time Best Swims and 68 new entries to the Top 15 during the dual meet portion of the season the Drew Swim Team finished the year with 30 Lifetime Best Swims and 27 new additions to the Top 15 at the 2010 Landmark Championship Meet. In the season of 2013-2014, the Men and Women's Relay 200, 400, and medley relay record was broken.
Scheingoltz brings a wealth of experience and technical expertise to the Ranger program. Before taking over the Ranger program Eric spent seven years with the Columbia University swimming program. As the assistant coach for the Lions, Scheingoltz has helped guide the men’s team to four of the program’s most successful seasons. During his time at Columbia, the Lions saw marked improvement on the conference and regional and national levels, including three consecutive third place finishes at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships, 2 Ivy Champions (1000 Free and 400 IM), a NCAA Qualifier in the 400 IM, 3 Olympic Trial qualifiers and over 13 new school records.
A 1996 graduate of the University of Florida, Scheingoltz served on the Gators’ coaching staff as a volunteer assistant from 1994-1996. His professional coaching career started in 1996, when he coached for the West Point Swim Club, in Highland Falls, N.Y.. From 1999 to 2001 Scheingoltz ran the senior group of an inner city team called the Big Apple Marlins, located in Manhattan as well as ran a “learn to swim-team” program for youngsters at a local sports club. Many of the athletes that Eric has worked with, at the USS age group level, have gone on to successful college swimming careers to places such as the University of Missouri, Kenyon College, Siena College, George Washington University, Indian River Community College, University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University.
A native of New York’s Rockland County, he was a member of the West Point Swim Club, and part of a 200 freestyle relay team that swam the 10th fastest time in the country. With a promising future in the sport, Scheingoltz was slowed by shoulder injuries that ultimately needed surgical treatment. Despite the setback, Scheingoltz was a state and Junior National qualifier as the breaststroke leg on the 200 medley relay and an all-county swimmer as a senior, just one year removed from shoulder surgery.
Scheingoltz earned his B.A. in liberal arts and sciences from the University of Florida in 1996, and received his master’s in bio-behavioral sciences, physical education from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2005. Eric and his wife, Julie, daughter Lilly (4) and son Mateo (2), reside in Madison, New Jersey.
