About Nick Bannon
Nick Bannon is currently serving as an Athletic Specialist, focusing on Outdoor Adventure Education and Aquatics. He provides students with opportunities to explore the outdoors through activities such as cycling, kayaking, camping, hiking, and teambuilding. In aquatics, students can take part in Lifeguarding, CPR, and First Aid Training, Learn to Swim programs, and join the TSD Sea Rangers Summer Swim Team as swimmers and/or junior swim coaches.
Nick has been involved in aquatics, outdoor education, physical education, and coaching since his high school days, when he worked as a lifeguard and water safety instructor on the shores of Lake Erie. Born in Buffalo, NY (a lifelong Bills and Sabres fan, still waiting for that Super Bowl and Stanley Cup!), he attended Canisius High School, Gallaudet University, and Canisius College, where he earned a BS/MS in Physical Education, an MS in Deaf Education, and an Ed.S. in Education Administration.
While at Gallaudet, Nick worked as a swim instructor in the Gallaudet Youth Summer Program and as a facilitator for the Discovery Program (1987–2019). Through Discovery, he traveled to Russia six times between 1992 and 2019 to lead teambuilding sessions for deaf and hearing youth and adults.
From 1990 to 2002, Nick taught physical education and coached football, basketball, and wrestling at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside, where he also served as Athletic Director (2000–2001). He then joined the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) in 2002, where he taught physical education, later became a curriculum specialist, PE/Aquatics Supervisor, and teambuilding facilitator (2002–2024). At TSD, he has also coached football and tennis, and is currently coaching the HS winter and K–12 summer swim teams, HS cross-country, and HS pickleball. In addition, he co-teaches Lifeguard/CPR/AED/First Aid courses for the American Red Cross. Nick is now enjoying his new role as an Athletics Specialist with the TSD Athletics Department.
A lifelong athlete, Nick has been a triathlete since 1990, competed in cycling at the Deaflympics in Taiwan (2009), and has more recently taken up the pickleball craze, playing several times a week. He still enjoys cycling, swimming, bike camping, SUP/kayaking, and other outdoor pursuits. Most of all, he enjoys time with his family, his wife Sarah, son Josh (23), and daughter Mia (21).
