Hampden-Sydney College Men's Swimming

Leonard is entering her sixth season at the helm of the Swimming program for the 2016-17 campaign. The Tiger swim team has enjoyed steady improvement from year to year throughout Coach Leonard's tenure, setting new school records at virtually every meet since the 2014-15 season. Starting with the 2014-15 season, the team competed in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference after being an independent program for the first three years. The 2016 Tiger squad one four head-to-head matchups and placed third at the ODAC Championship meet. H-SC took impressive victories against Gallaudet (164-65, 158-41) and Ferrum (136-56, 127-20). Four Tigers were named All-ODAC, including one on the second-team. In 2015, Hampden-Sydney won three head-to-head competitions and finished third at the inaugural ODAC Championship Meet. H-SC boasted commanding wins over Ferrum (136-92) and Greensboro (94-49). Senior Lee Ayscue was named the ODAC's first Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Tigers came out victorious in four meets in 2014, defeating Greensboro three times while also taking out Frostburg State. The 2013 squad won five out of seven meets, handily defeating the likes of Greensboro, Gallaudet, Davis and Elkins, and Randolph-Macon. The fledgling 2012 team competed in just two competitions, but they were able to defeat Greensboro 105-64 and narrowly lost to Randolph-Macon just 77-61. Coach Leonard also serves as the college's Head Cross Country coach, a position she has held since 2011. In addition, Coach Leonard was the Assistant Fitness Director for TigeRec from 2010 to 2012 and was promoted to Director in December 2012. In her roll with TigeRec, she is an AFPA (American Fitness Professional and Associates) Certified Personal Trainer and is the Fitness Instructor. She attended York College (PA) and was a member of the school's swim and track teams. Along with her passion for nutrition and fitness, Betsy is an avid horseback rider and trainer. Coach Leonard currently resides in Farmville, VA, with her husband, Berkeley, who is the Associate Dean of Admissions at Hampden-Sydney, and three sons Isaiah, Gabe, and Cooper.

Courtney Faller is in his second year as the Head Swimming Coach at Hampden-Sydney College during 2026-27. He previously served as the assistant coach and swim instructor at the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina since March 2023, has been the Aquatics Learning Director for the FitCatZ program at the College of Charleston since October 2022 and founded the Hurricane Swim Academy in 2018 for teaching daily lessons. Faller planned, organized and ran daily practices for seasonal competitive swim teams at the Country Club, while assisting the head coach in all team activities and communications. In addition to teaching daily lessons, he helped grow the program to its largest size in 10 years, as the youngest age group consistently finished among the Top 10 in the league. Faller was responsible for curriculum, training, standards and objectives for occupational therapy students at the College of Charleston, while working with neurodiverse students of all ages. He supervised daily lessons for all students and instructors, and helped grow participation and retention, regularly assisting with individual lessons, as well. His responsibility with the Hurricane Swim Academy included teaching daily lessons according to private curriculum and maintaining progress logs for all students, while communicating and scheduling lessons on a daily basis. Faller has an extensive background in aquatics, additionally serving as a Water Safety Instructor for the City of Charleston (2020-22), Head Coach of the Low Country Lightning (2017-19), Head Coach and Aquatics Director of the I’on Club (2012-17), Head Site Coach for the City of Charleston Swim Team (2001-04) and Assistant Senior Coach for Green Mountain Aquatics (1996-99) in Vermont. The Burlington, Vermont native graduated from the University of Michigan in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science with a minor in marketing. He was a three-year member of the Wolverines swim team and earned Academic All Big 10 honors. Courtney and his wife Andria reside in Hampden-Sydney.  

Grant White is in his second year as the Head Squash Coach at Hampden-Sydney College during 2026-27. He was named the new head coach on November 24, 2025. White previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Virginia since 2013. White has been involved with all aspects of the men’s and women’s squash at UVA, including training, organizing and managing the two programs. His primary responsibilities have also included recruiting student athletes, developing and executing fundraising initiatives, producing and managing internal and external media, grant proposals, in-season and off-season training plans, planning annual budgets, along with day-to-day administrative functions, including team correspondence, facility and equipment management, and accounting. He has US Squash Level 2 Coaching Certification, and the Cavaliers have enjoyed varsity status since 2016-17. White helped the UVA men to an overall record of 11-6 during 2024-25, finishing as runners-up at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (MASC) Championships, and advancing to the consolation bracket of the Potter Cup at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 7 and had four All-MASC selections, including the MASC Player of the Year Karim Elbarbary and Rookie of the Year Juan Jose Torres Lara, while Elbarbary (First Team) and JP Tew (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors. The UVA women’s program finished 12-6 overall, runners-up at the MASC Championships, as well, while finishing fifth at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 5 and had four All-MASC selections, while Meagan Best (First Team) and Lina Tammam (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors.   UVA is a founding member of the MASC (2017) and Cavaliers have won three men’s championships and one women’s title, while having four men’s MASC Players of the Year and three women’s MASC Players of the Year. Overall, the two programs have had 16 All-America selections with the men’s program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 5 in 2019, and the women’s program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 4 in 2022.   White has led fundraising efforts that are emerging from the most successful cycle in program history, as UVA Men’s and Women’s Squash are the only teams that have both operating and scholarship funds fully endowed. Academically, the program has graduated over 40 CSA Scholar Athlete Award recipients and one Rhodes Scholar, and consistently posts GPA numbers well above the student body average with 2024-25 Team GPAs of 3.5 (men) and 3.67 (women). This year’s ACC Athletic Honor Roll included 14 women and 13 men named to Honor Roll.   White has also served as the Assistant Director and Lead Coach for summer residential camps at the McArthur Squash Center at the Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville since 2015. He had previously served as head coach of the Club Squash program at UVA from 2011-13. White has additional experience as an Assistant Squash Teaching Professional at the Boar’s Head Sports Club (2013-17), the Squash Coach at Saint Anne’s-Belfield School (2011-16), as Director of Squash and Head Squash Professional at the Atlantic Coast Athletic Club (2011-16) and as an Assistant Squash and Lacrosse Coach at Woodberry Forest School (2006-08).   White graduated from Bowdoin (ME) College in 2004 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and art history. He was a four-year member of both the squash and lacrosse teams at Bowdoin. White later earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (poetry track) at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Grant and his wife, Mara, have a son, Virgil, and a daughter, Augusta. What They Are Saying About New Hampden-Sydney Squash Head Coach Grant White "Grant has been with me from day one of my arrival to UVA in April 2013 and has been an integral part of all our success. I am sad to see him go, and will miss he enthusiasm and always positive energy, but he is very ready to enter a new phase in his coaching career as a head coach and I am very excited to see where he will lead the Hampden-Sydney team over these next few years. I wish him all the best of luck and look forward to a UVA vs. H-SC squash match hopefully not too far in the future!"  – Virginia Men's & Women's Squash Head Coach Mark Allen  

Evans Thomas is in his second year as an assistant swimming coach at Hampden-Sydney College during 2026-27.