Scott Blanchard, a transplant from New York, has been coaching for the past 12 years. He attended Susquehanna University, graduating in 1993 with a BA in History. He earned is Master's in Education in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in May of 2001. Blanchard has coached high school swimming from 1994-2000, all at Minneapolis Southwest High School, and he has coached at the USS Age group level and Senior level for the past 10 years. He has had the opportunity to work with several junior and senior national qualifiers over the past decade.