Richard H. "Dick" Sloan was an American college athlete and swimming coach best known for his fourteen-year tenure at Ohio State University from 1975 to 1989.
From 1968 to 1975, he coached both tennis and swimming at Kenyon College where his team won seven consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) Championships.
As tennis coach, he led the team to win the 1970 Ohio Athletic Conference Title, securing an overall dual meet record of 48–25–1.
[2][1] For six successive summers prior to 1975, Sloan continued to work as an activities director at Epworth Heights Resort, where he had formerly been a lifeguard and swim instructor in his youth.
[7] He was probably best known for his fourteen-year tenure as head swimming coach at Ohio State University from 1975 to 1989, where his buckeye team had four All-Americans, two national titlists in U.S.
Swimming Coaches All American Squad for his performance in the 100-yard Butterfly and at 54.40 for the 100-meter fly, was only one second off the world record for the event.