Barry Schreifels was named the head coach of the Cal Lutheran men's and women's swimming and diving programs in 2018. After several years with multiple NCAA qualifiers who achieved All-American status, Schreifels coached the program's first NCAA champion as Luke Rodarte won the 100-yard Breast in 2022. Rodarte also became Cal Lutheran's first USA Olympic Trials qualifier in program history. During Schreifels' tenure, the Regals and Kingsmen have been named NCAA Academic All-America every year. This past season, in 2024, Cole Weiderman earned NCAA All-American status in the 1650-yard Free. Schreifels comes to Cal Lutheran with 24 years of coaching experience at the Division I level. He was the assistant coach at Ohio University from 1986-89. He went on to be an assistant at Arizona State from 1989-93 where he worked with over a dozen Olympic swimmers. Schreifels then accepted the head coaching job at California State University Northridge (CSUN) in 1993 and was the coach there through 2010.