Ian Bishop enters his third season as assistant swimming coach and recruiting coordinator for Bowling Green in 2026-27.
\r\n\r\nBishop followed head coach Tanner Barton to Bowling Green in 2024-25 after two seasons together at Division III John Carroll University, where Bishop also\u00A0served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He has been part of the Falcons' staff in the program's\u00A0steady ascent\u00A0under Barton, including a strong 2025-26 season that saw Bowling Green open 12-0, claim its first MAC dual win since 2022 over Miami (Ohio), defeat\u00A0Toledo in the Battle of I-75 and\u00A0helped coach\u00A0multiple swimmers to top 10 all-time program performances.
\r\n\r\nAt John Carroll, Bishop helped lead the Blue Streaks to two men's and two women's Ohio Athletic Conference championships and was part of four combined OAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors. On both the men's and women's sides, he helped guide three different OAC Swimmer of the Year recipients, nine NCAA Division III Championships qualifiers, six First and Second Team All-Americans and 26 OAC champion swimmers, while the program set seven combined OAC records under his tutelage. As recruiting coordinator, he brought in 31 swimmers and divers over two years, three of whom arrived with incoming times faster than existing program records. In 2024, Bishop was one of six collegiate coaches across all divisions to receive the Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America's Jean Freeman Award.
\r\n\r\nBefore John Carroll, Bishop was a volunteer assistant coach at Division III Albion College, helping lead the Britons to third-place finishes at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championships on both the men's and women's sides, and served as head coach of the Parkside Middle School swim team in Jackson, Michigan. Since 2019, he has coached at swim camps for NC State, Georgia, Indiana and Wisconsin, and spent five years as a clinician coach for Wolverine Swim Clinics under former Michigan coach Jim Richardson.
\r\n\r\nBishop graduated from Northern Michigan University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education and physical education, and earned a master's degree in sports leadership from John Carroll. A former collegiate swimmer, he began his career at Olivet College in sprint freestyle and backstroke before transferring to Northern Michigan, where he competed as a diver before becoming a student assistant coach for his final two seasons.
\r\n\r\nA native of Jackson, Michigan, Bishop graduated from Jackson High School in 2017, where he also served as an assistant coach in 2021.
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\r\n\r\nZuniga is a Bowling Green graduate, earning his bachelor's degree in intervention specialist studies from the university in 2021. As a student, he served as a student coach/manager for the swimming and diving program from 2018-22, helping run practices and plan team travel.
\r\n\r\nA native of Massillon, Ohio, Zuniga attended Perry High School before graduating from Canton Central Catholic High School in 2017, where he competed on the swimming and diving team.
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\r\n\r\nCastellanos comes to Bowling Green after a decorated diving career at Pennsylvania Western University, Clarion, where she served as team captain during the 2025-26 season. An eight-time All-American and five-time national champion, she also earned Scholar All-American honors in 2024 and was named to the Academic All-District Team in both 2025 and 2026.
\r\n\r\nA double major in psychology and criminal justice, Castellanos graduated with a 3.6 GPA and was a repeat honoree at Clarion's Scholar Athlete Luncheon. Off the boards, she was heavily involved in campus leadership, serving on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, leading its social media crew and working as a social media assistant for the Clarion diving program throughout her career. She was also a member of the Pennwest Leadership Academy and Eagle Ambassadors.
\r\n\r\nCastellanos brings coaching experience of her own, having spent multiple summers as a volunteer coach with a club program in Texas and working as a youth diving and Learn to Swim and Dive instructor. Fluent in English and Spanish, she began her college career studying biology at Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia, before transferring to Pennsylvania Western.
\r\n\r\nCastellanos joins Barton and the Falcons staff ahead of the 2026-27 season.
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