University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Annie Ryder enters her 12th season as Head Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Coach at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2025-26.

A four-time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Ryder has coached two women's national champions and one men's national champion. Ryder's Blugold programs have earned 76 individual All-America honors and produced 85 individual WIAC champions. In Ryder's tenure, the Blugold men have earned 46 individual All-America honors and the women have taken home 30 All-America awards. Ryder has coached the Blugold men to 46 individual WIAC titles and the Blugold women have won 39 individual conference titles under her guidance.

The 2023-24 campaign was historic for Blugold Swimming and Diving. Ryder led both the men's and women's teams to WIAC championships. The men's conference title was their first since 1999, and the women's successfully defended their title from the year prior and completed a back-to-back championship run.

The women's 2022-23 WIAC championship was their first conference title since 1999 and the 20th in program history. The Blugolds' breakthrough ended a streak of 10 consecutive conference titles won by UW-La Crosse, and they successfully defended the crown a year later with a dominant showing 2023-24.

The men's 2023-24 WIAC championship ended a run of 23 consecutive conference titles for UW-Stevens Point. The Blugolds bested the Pointers by more than 60 points at the championship meet.

With Ryder at the helm, the Blugolds produced a two-time national champion in Samantha Senczyszyn. She won back-to-back national titles in the 100-yard breaststroke in 2016 and 2017. Ryder also coached Collin Miller to a national title in the 100-yard breaststroke in 2019. Those three victories account for nearly half of the program's eight NCAA national titles.

Ryder was named WIAC Women's Coach of the Year in 2016 and 2019 and Men's Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2024.

Ryder is a UW-Eau Claire graduate and swam for the Blugolds from 2002-06. She medaled 26 times at the WIAC championships in her career. She coached the girls swimming and diving team at Menomonie High School while she was a senior at UW-Eau Claire, and went on to join the Blugolds as an assistant coach from 2008-10. She earned a Master's degree in Applied Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in 2011.