DAVE GRIFFORE
Director of Business Development
Dave Griffore served five years as the Athletic Director at Johnson & Wales University (JWU) from 2016 to 2021. Prior to JWU, Griffore served as the associate director of athletics and head swim coach at Emory & Henry (E&H) College. As the Associate AD he was involved with athletic facilities, budgets, compliance, fundraising, coaching personal, and was the direct sports administrator for women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s cross country. He also over saw the strength and conditioning program Dave started the E&H swimming program in the Fall of 2012. During his time with E&H Swimming, Dave recruited and coached 20 conference champions, 29 all-conference swimmers and had the first ever NCAA National qualifier in 2016.
Dave also has ten years of Division I coaching experience. He coached 34 Olympic Trials qualifiers from three different countries between 2000-10. Dave was an assistant men’s and women’s swimming coach at Penn State University, the head swimming & diving coach for both men and women at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and spent six seasons as the associate head swimming coach for men and women at Eastern Michigan University.
Dave was a three-time high school All-American swimmer in Minnesota and was state champion in the 50-yard freestyle. He swam at University of New Mexico where he was a seven-time Western Athletic Conference champion, setting three school records in the process.