Ethan Spencer is currently in his first season as an assistant coach for the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles. 
 
Coach Ethan grew up north of Richmond, Virginia, spending his summers swimming at his local pool for the Ashland Barracudas, where he would eventually come back and coach at in the summers, giving him his start coaching the sport. 
In high school, he joined the team, and after his freshman year, he started swimming more competitively and joined a year-round club, NOVA, until he finished high school. 
 
He then went on to swim for the DePauw University Tigers, in Greencastle, Indiana. At DePauw, he was a 4 year member of the conference team, a member of the student-athlete advisory council, and a team captain. While in college, during a year following the pandemic when his team did not have a season, he trained at his home club team and helped to restart a local YMCA swim team's program by becoming their head coach for the months he was home. Ethan graduated from DePauw University in 2023 with a B.A. in both Communication and English. 
 
Joining the Eagles for the start of fall 2023, Coach Ethan has also taken over as the head coach of a club team, Swim Florida, who has a satellite location which shares the pool space in the evenings. Coach Ethan enjoys spending his free time watching sports, taking his dog on adventures, or relaxing and reading.