John Stuhltrager joined the Spartan swimming coaching staff as an assistant coach for the start of the 2024-25 season.
Prior to his arrival in York, Stuhltrager put together a highly successful and decorated collegiate head coaching career with stints at Albright College and Stevenson University which spanned from 2003-24. A 14-time Middle Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year honoree, he compiled over 200 combined dual meet victories and won a combined 12 MAC team titles.
He built Albright into a Middle Atlantic Conference powerhouse as the Lions captured 12 team titles (6 men, 6 women), compiled 14 David B. Eavenson Swimmer of the Year awards and nine Rookie of the Year awards during his tenure from 2003-14 and 2019-24. Stuhltrager also coached a pair of national qualifiers and an NCAA All-American during his time in Reading, in addition to 14 College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-Americans and five MAC Scholar-Athlete award winners.
From 2014 to 2019, Stuhltrager took over a brand new program at Stevenson University and led the Mustangs to four individual MAC titles and one MAC relay title at championships with 15 First Team All-Conference and 14 Second Team All-Conference honors. Stuhltrager earned the MAC Women's Coach of the Year Award in 2017 and 2019 with Stevenson, with the women's team finishing in 4th place at MAC Championships in 2017.
Stuhltrager began his collegiate coaching career in 2001, spending two seasons as an assistant coach at Albright under Jenis Frederick. During that time, the Lions won a combined three MAC championships.
Stuhltrager has more than 20 years of coaching experience, including five years as a YMCA head coach where he produced a number of district, state and national qualifiers. He also had success at the high school level as the co-head coach at Monsignor Bonner.
A 1990 graduate of Bloomsburg with a bachelors degree in economics, Stuhltrager earned All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honors four-straight years for the Huskies from 1987-90 and still ranks seventh in school history in the 100 freestyle and ninth in the 200 butterfly.
Stuhltrager and his wife, Heidi, have a daughter, Morgan, and a son, Brenden.
