Lianne McCluskey joins the Brandeis University athletics staff in August of 2020 as the aquatics director and assistant swimming and diving coach. 

McClusky began her coaching career in 2015 as an assistant coach at Nitro Swimming in Austin, Texas, before taking over as the head coach of the Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish Swim Team in Rockport, Maine from 2016 to 2018. For the past two years, she has been a graduate assistant swim coach at Smith College. During the summer of 2019, she was a swim coach and camp counselor at the University of Texas Longhorn Swim Camp and also completed the core curriculum of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy through WeCOACH.

Lianne was a Division III All-American and national champion at Denison University before transferring to Division I La Salle University in Philadelphia. Lianne graduated from La Salle in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Journalism, followed by a Master of Science in Exercise & Sports Studies at Smith College in May 2020. 

In addition to her love of swimming, Lianne is a whitewater raft and kayak guide at Zoar Outdoor in Charlemont, Massachusetts. Originally from Hope, Maine, she enjoys outdoor recreation sports, trail running and triathlons.