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Tansel is in his third year as the primary coach of the women's swimming team. Under Tansel's leadership, Michigan has consistently improved, finishing third at the Big Ten Championships in each of the past two years and ninth and 12th at the NCAA Championships in 2025 and 2024, respectively. Â
Tansel comes to Ann Arbor after spending the 2022-23 season at Louisville, where both Cardinals' programs finished third at the ACC Championships, with the men going on to a 13th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. He arrived at Louisville following five seasons at Ohio State, where he was part of three consecutive top-10 NCAA finishes with the OSU men's program and a school-best seventh-place finish for the women. Tansel helped coach the 2021 Ohio State teams that saw the women win their third consecutive Big Ten championship while the men's squad finished third.
Before OSU, Tansel coached at LSU in 2016-17, working directly with the sprint group and coaching four individual school records and two program records in the 200- and 400-yard medley relay.
The Dundee, Mich., native previously spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan, where he was part of two men's Mid-American Conference championship teams (2015, 2016), while the women's program improved from fourth place in 2014 to consecutive second-place finishes in 2015 and 2016. Tansel led the Eagles to 27 varsity records, eight MAC records and 12 individual and relay conference championships.
While at EMU, Tansel coached Cole Bateman to a semifinal appearance in the 200 backstroke at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials and three swimmers to the NCAA Championships, including freshman Delaney Duncan. She became the first freshman in program history to qualify for nationals, earning NCAA All-America honorable mention status with her 14th-place finish in the 100 breaststroke.
Tansel also has coached the Dallas Mustangs Swim Team national group, the Dallas Aquatic Masters, and Poseidon Swimming Inc., alongside a volunteer coaching position at the University of Richmond. His first coaching job was for the Oakland Live Y'ers in Troy, Mich.
Tansel graduated from Oakland University, where he was named the Summit League Swimmer of the Year in 2005 and received All-Summit League first team honors from 2003-08. He was elected team captain during his final two seasons for the Golden Grizzlies and earned his bachelor's degree in business management before earning a master's in sport management from EMU.
