Dan Swanstrom

Biography

Dan Swanstrom is The Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football. He spent five seasons as head coach at Ithaca College, compiling a 32-11 record and winning at least eight games in all four seasons, with three Liberty League titles. Prior to that, he served as quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania (2014-16), where he was part of 2015 and 2016 Ivy League championship teams and mentored Alek Torgersen to All-Ivy honors and an NFL career. He returned to Penn as offensive coordinator (2022-23), helping the Quakers improve significantly in total offense. From 2008-13, Swanstrom was associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Johns Hopkins, helping the team to five conference titles and compiling a 48-10 record while breaking nearly every offensive team record. He began his coaching career at Stratford High School in Texas, mentoring future NFL No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Luck, then served as a graduate assistant at the University of Redlands. As a player, Swanstrom was a quarterback at Rhodes College, finishing as the Lynx's all-time leader in career total offense (8,347 yards) and was a Gagliardi Award finalist as a senior. He was inducted into Rhodes College's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019 and later played professionally in the German Football League with the Darmstadt Diamonds.